{"id":60962,"date":"2023-10-16T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60962"},"modified":"2023-10-17T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:33:10","slug":"pheasants-my-darling-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/10\/pheasants-my-darling-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Pheasants my darling friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the twenty Two million<br \/>\nImported from France<br \/>\nHalf die in transit<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t get  a chance<br \/>\nPrisoners really<br \/>\nIn Captivity<br \/>\nNo survival skills<br \/>\nIn small cages that be.<\/p>\n<p>Away from their mothers<br \/>\nImagine if you had no mother<br \/>\nTo instruct where you might be<br \/>\nWhose<\/p>\n<p>Watching out  on the roadside<br \/>\nno clue as to why<br \/>\nVehicles hit you and so many die<br \/>\nHigh road kill numbers<br \/>\nFoxes predate some 16 %<br \/>\nThe figures not great<\/p>\n<p>So ZEN Flow Reiki<br \/>\nYour statement that we<br \/>\nKnow very little<br \/>\nOf Pheasants you see<br \/>\nYou call them things<br \/>\nThey are beautiful birds<br \/>\nPersonally I have contempt<br \/>\nfor your words<\/p>\n<p>Killing the beauties a death that is swift<br \/>\nYou are the ignorant one for their gift of  life<br \/>\nIs sadly shattered some 40:per cent<br \/>\nAre wounded and die slowly in wild lament<br \/>\nImagine shot through with loads of lead shot<br \/>\nThe ultimate suffering just  left there to rot<br \/>\nCreation that miracle never could be massacred really by the shooters for free<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the spoils is your  generous trait<br \/>\nIt needs one to realise such a sad state<br \/>\nKnown as \u201cditch chickens\u201d not much of a taste<br \/>\nThey need to be hung and it has to be faced<br \/>\nPrisoners caged and let out to be killed<br \/>\nBy the great firing squads with so much  blood spilled<\/p>\n<p>You would rather see animals out in the field<br \/>\nSad that you missed for  half were concealed<br \/>\nAll dying slowly to be eaten and pained<br \/>\nWhilst polluting consumers<br \/>\nThose given away to the poorer they ought<br \/>\nTo appreciate toxic lead elevation<br \/>\nNot as perhaps thought<br \/>\nGo meet some of them it\u2019s not just for sport<br \/>\nBlinding the naive all sadly untaught<\/p>\n<p>A free range life sorry My Dear<br \/>\na tiny cramped cage<br \/>\nDraws tremendous fear<br \/>\nAll swiftly killed your ignorance flies<br \/>\nIn the face of the fact<br \/>\nThat a huge number dies<br \/>\nSlowly in agony, wounded and alone<br \/>\nThey cry for their  mothers<br \/>\nStop by hear them moan<br \/>\nSo many guns<br \/>\nSo many words<br \/>\nWounding is common<br \/>\nA bit like your words<\/p>\n<p>Given life\u2019s challenge<br \/>\nA lifespan of two<br \/>\nYears eating rat babies<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what they do<br \/>\nHardly a healthy food<br \/>\nTo become meat<br \/>\nDead flesh and dead rats<br \/>\nNot my kind of treat<\/p>\n<p>Campylobacter a high risk<br \/>\nIt seems<br \/>\nOccidiosis and blackhead<br \/>\nDon\u2019t feature in dreams<br \/>\nThese sad wild souls<br \/>\nFrightened perilously<br \/>\nMurdered in cold blood<br \/>\nVile deformity.<\/p>\n<p>As to sport it is hideous<br \/>\nGraceless and sick<br \/>\nRepellent and odious<br \/>\nI think the thick<br \/>\nHunters who do this<br \/>\nCould  far better be<br \/>\nAppreciating the wildness<br \/>\nFor a constancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the twenty Two million Imported from France Half die in transit They don\u2019t get a chance Prisoners really In Captivity No survival skills In small cages that be. 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