{"id":667,"date":"2011-12-29T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-12-29T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T10:40:51","slug":"a-sea-of-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-sea-of-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sea of Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Sea of Pigs<br \/>\nBefore me<br \/>\nIn vast dark<br \/>\nsmelly sheds<br \/>\nWhat thoughts go<br \/>\nthrough<br \/>\nEach animal<br \/>\nIntheir also cavernous heads<br \/>\nThe hell we put them through<br \/>\nmust they<br \/>\nthink badly of us<br \/>\nfor the way<br \/>\nwe so abuse<br \/>\ntheir time on earth<br \/>\nTheir lives too clearly<br \/>\nhad some worth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But commodities<br \/>\njust numbers they<br \/>\nFound themselves<br \/>\nforced to pay<br \/>\nI Billion animals<br \/>\nevery year go through<br \/>\nthis in the great UK<br \/>\nThe market place<br \/>\nFilled up with those<br \/>\nwho dream of profit<br \/>\nI suppose<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Such naive brutes<br \/>\nin their white coats<br \/>\nWho smile whilst slitting<br \/>\nall their throats<br \/>\nThe corporate few<br \/>\nwho still accrue<br \/>\nGreat wealth<br \/>\nBut after more<br \/>\nIts makes no sense<br \/>\nwhen the expense<br \/>\nIs loaded on the poor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The evil so exacted<br \/>\nOn the animals today<br \/>\nEverything is calculated<br \/>\nin every minute way<br \/>\nTo satisfy shareholders<br \/>\nUnthinkable ordeals<br \/>\nBecome a way of life<br \/>\nfor some<br \/>\nthat the camera reveals<br \/>\nInseminated by the clumsily<br \/>\nby the corporate hand<br \/>\nAnd a pre arranged time<br \/>\nfor death<br \/>\nThe economic band<br \/>\nIs up and running purposefully<br \/>\nIn abject pain their cries<br \/>\nignored by those who consume them<br \/>\nSo its comes as no surprise<br \/>\n45 billion animals are slaughtered<br \/>\nevery year, our world of immense suffering<br \/>\nof shock and awe and fear<br \/>\nto house this colossal number<br \/>\nVast tracts of Forest lost<br \/>\nWater has been tainted<br \/>\nBut not part of the cost<br \/>\nThe terrible pollution<br \/>\nThe dead zones in the sea<br \/>\nThe massive degradation<br \/>\nThat is true insanity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its hard to find words perhaps the only word is holocaust 45 billion souls lost to humanity each year of which 50% of their tortured bodies are consumed and 50% are rendered down for pet foods A sheer waste of life and a terrible karmic debt on those countries allowing such slaughter to take place <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-sea-of-pigs\/\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}