{"id":64658,"date":"2024-08-31T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64658"},"modified":"2024-08-31T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:46:18","slug":"pheasant-shooting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/08\/pheasant-shooting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pheasant Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty million non native pheasants<br \/>\nAnd Partridges each year<br \/>\nInto the British Countryside<br \/>\nAlive but have little fear<br \/>\nThey strut about all cocky like<br \/>\nGet knocked down in the street<br \/>\nAre shot or wounded by arrogant shooters<br \/>\nWith lead shot for their meat<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s toxic lead they are using<br \/>\nLots of birds lay dead shot down into rivers<br \/>\ninto streams<br \/>\nSome are dead<br \/>\nothers bleed out slowly<br \/>\nsome are eaten too<br \/>\nThe lead shot in the body<br \/>\nIs toxic  there\u2019s the clue<\/p>\n<p>Shooters many rich<br \/>\nStill use lead because it\u2019s cheap<br \/>\nThey could also<br \/>\nuse tungsten<br \/>\nand truthfully not reap<br \/>\nThe horror that is lead<br \/>\nUpon the environment of today<br \/>\nAll these birds imported to be wasted<br \/>\nMy dismay<\/p>\n<p>They roost up in the trees<br \/>\nBut these french foreign birds<br \/>\nWalk about the countryside<br \/>\nI am lost for words<br \/>\nThey are untrained and stupid<br \/>\nSome walk into cars<br \/>\nThe handsome male a multi coloured chap<br \/>\nOne of the stars<\/p>\n<p>More than the weight of all wild birds<br \/>\nAre killed shot by these blokes<br \/>\nWe should all ban pheasant shooting<br \/>\nThese shooters yea they are jokes<br \/>\nThey each pay quite a lot to shoot<br \/>\nWith beaters frightening the birds<br \/>\nAnd as they fly of course they die<br \/>\nYes I am lost for words<\/p>\n<p>Bankers MP\u2019s government bods<br \/>\nAll sorts of arse holes who<br \/>\nHaven\u2019t got anything better to do<br \/>\nWith their miserable lives<br \/>\nIt\u2019s true<br \/>\nThey come and shoot whatever flies<br \/>\nAnd pay for the pleasure it\u2019s called<br \/>\nIn fact it\u2019s wholesale murder<br \/>\nThese idiots were not schooled<\/p>\n<p>In genuine respect for nature<br \/>\nCompassionless they be<br \/>\nImagine a wild bird bleeding out in the darkness<br \/>\nYou can see<br \/>\nBlood and now and toxic lead<br \/>\nLeaking into the stream<br \/>\nWhere wild dress grows<br \/>\nAnd fish expose<br \/>\nThe worst kind of dream<\/p>\n<p>Stop these ignorant arse holes now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty million non native pheasants And Partridges each year Into the British Countryside Alive but have little fear They strut about all cocky like Get knocked down in the street Are shot or wounded by arrogant shooters With lead shot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/08\/pheasant-shooting-2\/\">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":[685,492,344,173,216,147,137,28,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-likely-story","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-sacrifice","category-animals-used-for-food","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-food","category-pheasant-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64658","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=64658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64659,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64658\/revisions\/64659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}