{"id":64741,"date":"2024-09-07T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64741"},"modified":"2024-09-07T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T09:08:42","slug":"poor-pigs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/09\/poor-pigs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slaughterhouse<br \/>\nThe death camp<br \/>\nThe place of no return<br \/>\nPigs are very sensitive<br \/>\nFilled with such concern<br \/>\nFor each other<br \/>\nAnd for family<br \/>\nA real threshold of pain<br \/>\nThe DEFRA code of Practice<br \/>\nIt just all  feels insane<\/p>\n<p>Some Workers just ignore so much<br \/>\nThe physical abuse<br \/>\nThe surfaces can be slippery<br \/>\nFilthy let\u2019s deduce<br \/>\nThe unsanitary conditions<br \/>\nCarcasses about<br \/>\nThey come in lame<br \/>\nWith growths and stress<br \/>\nVisible injuries<br \/>\nJust a mess<\/p>\n<p>Deformities<br \/>\nStress so severe<br \/>\nSome drop dead<br \/>\nFrom all the fear<br \/>\nAll the supermarkets<br \/>\nThat we know<br \/>\nSeemingly accept a flow<\/p>\n<p>Red Tractor and the  RSPCA<br \/>\nApparently check<br \/>\nAll made to pay<br \/>\nPoor pigs suffering<br \/>\nSuch distress<br \/>\nVisible injuries<br \/>\nWounds no less<br \/>\nFrom birth to death<br \/>\nThe cries<br \/>\nthe pain<br \/>\nThe meat trade<br \/>\nIt just feels insane<\/p>\n<p>The Animal Justice Project<br \/>\nThe Animals Welfare Act<br \/>\nIs knocked for six<br \/>\nSeemingly for some how they react<br \/>\nWorkers some caught laughing<br \/>\nPigs can feel inside<br \/>\nThe undercover musing<br \/>\nSo many just deride<\/p>\n<p>Some drop dead from excessive stress<br \/>\nRepetitive strain we see<br \/>\nBruised and sprained and fractured<br \/>\nAll this  adversity<br \/>\nChafed and flinch and feel the pangs<br \/>\nSuffering so much more<br \/>\nThan any pigs should ever suffer<br \/>\nDoes the carnivore<\/p>\n<p>Realise the horror<br \/>\nWhat it\u2019s really like<br \/>\nTo be killed in fear and trepidation<br \/>\nTreated like a tike<br \/>\nBeaten bashed and broken<br \/>\nForced into chambers where<br \/>\nGas is pumped and bodies dumped<br \/>\nMartyrs of despair.<\/p>\n<p>Looking good in plastic trays<br \/>\nUnder the pink lights<br \/>\nPeople buy the wholesome cuts<br \/>\nWho now under rights<br \/>\nThe quality the principles<br \/>\nThe sadness and the way<br \/>\nThe Pigs were killed<br \/>\nTheir Blood was spilled<br \/>\nOn any given day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slaughterhouse The death camp The place of no return Pigs are very sensitive Filled with such concern For each other And for family A real threshold of pain The DEFRA code of Practice It just all feels insane Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/09\/poor-pigs-4\/\">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":[344,173,4,147,13,22,601,377,23,28,29,580,105,715,139,160,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-animals-used-for-food","category-business-management","category-death-and-dying","category-desecration","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-emotional-poems","category-food","category-food-processing","category-piglets-suckling","category-pigs","category-pork","category-slaughterhouses-and-operatives","category-whistleblowers","category-womens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741","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=64741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64742,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741\/revisions\/64742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}