{"id":580,"date":"2011-12-19T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2012-12-27T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:44:26","slug":"madagascan-vanilla-is-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/madagascan-vanilla-is-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascan Vanilla is suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We definately devalue<br \/>\n<!--more--><!--more-->Crops from far away<br \/>\nMadagascan Vanilla<br \/>\nSadly has had its day<br \/>\na high price as its forests<br \/>\nwere logged and cleared away<br \/>\nFor artifical flavours<br \/>\nare cheaper by the day<br \/>\nOnce it did so prosper<br \/>\nWhat Mother Nature taught<br \/>\nTo so appreciate her skill<br \/>\nAnd consider, her thought<br \/>\nSo many appeared ignorant<br \/>\nShort term profit sat<br \/>\nFirmly on the table<br \/>\nKnowing where they were at<br \/>\nOur taste buds were exploited<br \/>\nThe Corporates they knew<br \/>\nThe artificial chemicals<br \/>\nCould fool the lot of you<br \/>\nMadagascars green gold is tragically<br \/>\nno more<br \/>\nNow the chemists in their darkest labs<br \/>\nhave won the war<br \/>\nThe freshest of the orchids<br \/>\nin what jungle now is left<br \/>\nproducing virgin fragrance<br \/>\nBut they truly stand bereft<br \/>\nof any sense or quality<br \/>\nEven Cola&#8217;s lost<br \/>\nthe added secret flavour<br \/>\nwhich will be, to its cost.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those companies still using true vanilla like Unilever in its Ben &#038; Jerry range is not as clear on child labour as it might be, and all its other ranges are not using fairtrade vanilla so will be  subsidized by children .working for no wages( Little slaves) in reality.See Ethical Consumer Jan\/Feb 2012 out today..Page 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/madagascan-vanilla-is-suffering\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}