{"id":51163,"date":"2021-05-24T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51163"},"modified":"2021-05-24T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:27:08","slug":"reptiles-deserve-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/reptiles-deserve-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Reptiles deserve better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exotic skin<br \/>\nA retail tag<br \/>\nMurdering reptiles<br \/>\nTo make a bag<br \/>\nShoes a belt<br \/>\nLuxury<br \/>\nFor sicko humans<br \/>\nWho expectantly<\/p>\n<p>Give credence to the hunters who<br \/>\nTrap and kill reptiles<br \/>\nIts true<br \/>\nGifted souls with armour they<br \/>\nAre abusing wildlife<br \/>\nThey have to pay<\/p>\n<p>With their lives<br \/>\nSo some leather place<br \/>\nCalled exotic<br \/>\nIts a disgrace<br \/>\nIts contempt in fact<br \/>\nSupercillousness<br \/>\nSo many packed<\/p>\n<p>In bundles waiting<br \/>\nTo be skinned<br \/>\nAn unworthy end<br \/>\nTheir bodies binned<br \/>\nCreation in its spectacular way<br \/>\nFashioned these souls<br \/>\nAnd they have to pay<\/p>\n<p>With their lives<br \/>\nSo hags can carry a bag<br \/>\nOr wear some shoes<br \/>\nWith this fancy tag<br \/>\nExotic leather<br \/>\nFor exotic hags<br \/>\nCompletely shamelessly<br \/>\nDrive their jags<\/p>\n<p>Delusions of grandeur<br \/>\nCrocodile shoes<br \/>\nstrutting their stuff<br \/>\nWhat awful news<br \/>\nBlatant cruel<br \/>\nThats alright<br \/>\nWe have the money<br \/>\nAnd thats in spite<\/p>\n<p>its self importance<br \/>\nSplish splash splosh<br \/>\nWearing exotica<br \/>\nGolly gosh<br \/>\nPompous and showy<br \/>\nA roll of the drums<br \/>\nDeath and destructions<br \/>\nShow the thumbs<br \/>\nWearing these shoes<br \/>\nMakes us feel good<br \/>\nToffy nosed idiots<br \/>\nIts because they could<\/p>\n<p>With not the slightest idea how<br \/>\nThese reptiles are caught and killed<br \/>\nAnd now<br \/>\nWe tell them and say to exotica skins<br \/>\nThe lot of you should be in the bins<br \/>\nExotica thats the wrong word<br \/>\nFrom the  terror and the cruelty<br \/>\nThat has occurred<br \/>\nGetting the crocodiles<br \/>\nand stripping them clean<br \/>\nwatching them bleed out<br \/>\nHow obscene<br \/>\nIt is how companies<br \/>\nWant to  deal<br \/>\nBecause for certain<br \/>\nThey cannot feel<\/p>\n<p>Their brash and insensitive<br \/>\nWooden hearts<\/p>\n<p>Its all about money<br \/>\nAnd the margin of course<br \/>\nAll sorts of Animals<br \/>\nEven the horse<\/p>\n<p>Get whats coming<br \/>\nFrom exotic skin<br \/>\nBased around loathing<br \/>\nAnd actual sin<\/p>\n<p>Animal skins stolen from living animals should be banned outright<br \/>\nPerhaps strip a finger of skin from the so called exotic leather wearers  trappers and sellers let them scream to high heaven <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exotic skin A retail tag Murdering reptiles To make a bag Shoes a belt Luxury For sicko humans Who expectantly Give credence to the hunters who Trap and kill reptiles Its true Gifted souls with armour they Are abusing wildlife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/reptiles-deserve-better\/\">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":[344,173,194,102,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-leather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163","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=51163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51165,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163\/revisions\/51165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}