{"id":4992,"date":"2013-01-11T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:42:13","slug":"hunters-the-forest-is-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/hunters-the-forest-is-theirs\/","title":{"rendered":"The forest is no place for hunters by wild decree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On bended knee<br \/>\nI meditate<br \/>\nlooking to the sky<br \/>\nand thinking quietly<br \/>\nin my heart<br \/>\nof the young<br \/>\nelks passing by<\/p>\n<p>in their thickets<br \/>\nforaging<br \/>\nfor the food<br \/>\nthey need each day<br \/>\nunlike the hunters<br \/>\nliving in their concrete<br \/>\nbox who pay<br \/>\nscant attention<br \/>\nto the tribes<br \/>\nwho forage near and far<br \/>\nthey walk barefoot on gods own earth<br \/>\nand can gaze up at each star<br \/>\nHunters<br \/>\nwhere do they go to buy<br \/>\nmost of their food<br \/>\nat the hypermarket store<br \/>\nwhere everyone seems hyper<br \/>\nbuying more and more<br \/>\nand it comes from<br \/>\nevery quarter<br \/>\nunlike the wild young Deer<br \/>\nwho eat what they were born to eat<br \/>\nin the season of the year<\/p>\n<p>their instinct which they still<br \/>\npossess tells them its the way<br \/>\nprawns and fish and other meats<br \/>\nand fat if it doesn&#8217;t lay<br \/>\nin the natural forest<br \/>\nit will not reach their throat<br \/>\nunlike the hunter fellow<br \/>\nwho on anything may dote<\/p>\n<p>the natural forest dweller<br \/>\nwho knows where they are at<br \/>\ntheir environment is the wild woods<br \/>\nwhere nothing makes them fat<br \/>\nand who expects a hunter<br \/>\nto come around and play<br \/>\nat killing<br \/>\nor the trapper<br \/>\nto pass the time of day<\/p>\n<p>innocent and unsuspecting<br \/>\nwith all those dire iron bolts<br \/>\nthick wire straps and frantic slaps<br \/>\nwe know that result<br \/>\nbut we&#8217;ve reached a time, an epiphany<br \/>\nin many ways, when we<br \/>\nhave sufficient in our larders<br \/>\nand the wild folk could be free<\/p>\n<p>they after all provide a balance<br \/>\ncreation has designed<br \/>\nperfection, my rejection<br \/>\nis the hunter<br \/>\nwhose assigned<br \/>\nto killing, maiming, breaking<br \/>\nup families causing woe<br \/>\nfor killing members affecting others<br \/>\nwhere grief can be on show<\/p>\n<p>so some bold<br \/>\nhunter\/trapper<br \/>\ncan have his bit of fun<br \/>\nand go back to his day time job<br \/>\nof course minus his gun<br \/>\nits nine to five<br \/>\nits, he&#8217;s alive<br \/>\nuntil it suits him, when<br \/>\nhe gets into his 4x 4<br \/>\nand goes hunting agen  (again)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woods are no place for Hunters the forest is a place for wild foragers and those of us sensitive to know the difference <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/hunters-the-forest-is-theirs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}