{"id":60625,"date":"2023-09-19T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60625"},"modified":"2023-09-19T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:04:40","slug":"livestock-poo-and-the-dung-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/livestock-poo-and-the-dung-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestock Poo and the Dung Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marsupial poo<br \/>\nWhich is Dry to the touch<br \/>\nTasty I am sure<br \/>\nA problem as such<br \/>\nout there a problem exists<br \/>\nDay to day<br \/>\nCow pats huge numbers<br \/>\nRotting away<\/p>\n<p>Some thirty million<br \/>\nCows,  so we hear<br \/>\n12 craps a day<br \/>\nSpreading the fear<br \/>\nBush flies come hither<br \/>\nLoads of them they<br \/>\nAccumulate fast<br \/>\n3000 some say<br \/>\nIn a two week session<br \/>\nPollution galore<br \/>\nWorms fouling pastures<br \/>\nWho could want for more<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for Dung beetles<br \/>\nBright little souls<br \/>\nThey roll it and bury it<br \/>\nWhich kind of controls<br \/>\nThe Great Lakes of crap<br \/>\nThat otherwise would<br \/>\nLay there attracting<br \/>\nWhat isn\u2019t too good<\/p>\n<p>Reducing the Bush flies<br \/>\nWhich has to be right<br \/>\nBut sadly a fungus in<br \/>\nIs using its might<br \/>\nThe icing sugar fungus<br \/>\nRewards them for toil<br \/>\nBy creating great spores<br \/>\nThat threaten the health<br \/>\nOf the beetle of dung<br \/>\nWith amazing stealth <\/p>\n<p>And the beetles are dying<br \/>\nSuffering so<br \/>\nThey came from far away<br \/>\nFrom Morocco<br \/>\nit\u2019s man using<br \/>\nnature against man unkind<br \/>\nProfits where prophets remain kind of blind<br \/>\nTo the over abundance of cows<br \/>\nIn a place<br \/>\nWhere cows shouldn\u2019t be<br \/>\nAnd just cannot keep pace<\/p>\n<p>Extremes are a problem<br \/>\nGreed in a way<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a negative method<br \/>\nIt\u2019s threatens the day<br \/>\nCow pads are voluminous<br \/>\nVast seas of shit<br \/>\nPollutive and worrying<br \/>\nReally they sit<br \/>\nExuding and attracting<br \/>\nThe menace and pain<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a lop sided science<br \/>\nWhich for me feels insane<\/p>\n<p>Importing a vector<br \/>\nBorn far away<br \/>\nIt\u2019s arrogance truthfully<br \/>\nWhat can one say<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t right<br \/>\nAnd abusing the gift<br \/>\nIs creating a tragedy<br \/>\nAn ugly rift<br \/>\nThe angels are suffering<br \/>\nAnd man will not see<br \/>\nThat by reducing the numbers of cows<br \/>\nMight just be<\/p>\n<p>The answer not sacrifice<br \/>\nDung Beetles why<br \/>\nShould they take the hit<br \/>\nIn the shit <\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marsupial poo Which is Dry to the touch Tasty I am sure A problem as such out there a problem exists Day to day Cow pats huge numbers Rotting away Some thirty million Cows, so we hear 12 craps a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/livestock-poo-and-the-dung-beetle\/\">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":[344,173,293,89,22,516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-arrogance-and-dieoffs","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-death-and-dying","category-dung-beetles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60625","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=60625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60626,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60625\/revisions\/60626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}