{"id":671,"date":"2011-12-30T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2011-12-30T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T22:18:29","slug":"looking-backwards-and-forwards-to-the-next-few-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/looking-backwards-and-forwards-to-the-next-few-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking backwards and forwards to the next few generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Its the markets I refuse to call them<br \/>\nSuper<br \/>\nSuper wasteful, possibly that&#8217;s true<br \/>\nOutgrading of organics, for example<br \/>\nAnd conventional insanity a clue<br \/>\nGreat fields of vegetables ploughed back<br \/>\nuneaten<br \/>\nby any earthling, due to size and shape<br \/>\nNature doesn&#8217;t teach us uniformity<br \/>\nThat wasteful markets specify and rape<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The fields of true hard graft is the creation<br \/>\nBut its not on their agenda pitifully<br \/>\nThey would rather make a farmer cry his heart out<br \/>\nThan accept what he has grown with dignity<br \/>\nAnd buyers, specifiers their way forever rough<br \/>\nBut their dictat is the produce thats supplied<br \/>\nIs as perfect as the day is long any inperfection&#8217;s wrong<br \/>\nAnd farmers have to take that in their stride<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The problem also customers were brainwashed too<br \/>\nUnless they&#8217;ve grown their own they will disown<br \/>\nThe naturalness, the varied and mishapen<br \/>\nand those discoloured of a paler tone<br \/>\nPerfect harmony the fields now tragically<br \/>\nWasted allowed to rot and turn to stone<br \/>\nThe great waste markets full of corporate ineptitude<br \/>\nSoon they also\u00a0 found themselves alone<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For who accepts the Genetic conflagration<br \/>\nThat steals across our planet scorching all<br \/>\nAll the natural wisdom of the ages<br \/>\nThe kindred spirits that were ours to call<br \/>\nThe vast array of seeds saved by the ancients<br \/>\nAnd all of it was balanced and supreme<br \/>\nThe lust of the short circuit to pefection<br \/>\nWas and is\u00a0 harder than it did seem<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Consideration for the Laws of nature<br \/>\nWhichever path one followed in one&#8217;s quest<br \/>\nTo find the inner self and seek abundance<br \/>\nThose inebriated fools clearly distressed<br \/>\nSunk their selves into the ways of evil<br \/>\nThey imagined they had all the answers they<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t create a blade of grass from nothing<br \/>\nBut considered meddling with our DNA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Perfect straight cucumbers, fruit that didn&#8217;t rot<br \/>\nWas it more nutritious ? what was it we got<br \/>\nIt lasted longer on the shelf cosmetically it looked<br \/>\nPerfect whatever that is and customers were hooked<br \/>\nOn the tasteless pale and artificial hybrids<br \/>\nAnd we watched the super weeds that took control<br \/>\nTo grow as stout as Leylandi and to strangle<br \/>\nWhat god had planted foods that had real soul<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And farmers they were mortgaged to Monsanto<br \/>\nFor seeds, for Herbicides for everything<br \/>\nEvery strain of poison being administered to plants and animals<br \/>\nTo try to bring<br \/>\nthe balance back that genetics had created<br \/>\nBut the genie ran amok now everywhere<br \/>\nDestruction of the top soil was apparent<br \/>\nAnd electro smog was ours for all to share<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">People could communicate but sadly<br \/>\nTheir brains were eaten up as was their soul<br \/>\nThey were mere machines trapped in a body<br \/>\nUnder what was world order control<br \/>\nFreedom no such thing eternal serfdom<br \/>\nLove that word was banned decades ago<br \/>\nTerrorists and the Animal Rights fraternity<br \/>\nthey lived in the fracking holes below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Those tunnels left behind from all the mining<br \/>\nCutting through the shale for energy<br \/>\nThat terrible destruction that got out of hand<br \/>\nAnd the degradation of humanity<br \/>\nWorld populations, plummeted the planet torn<br \/>\nAnd people many many many died<br \/>\nThankfully I&#8217;m living with the A.L.F who remain a force for they could not be denied<\/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>a look into the future based on today <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/looking-backwards-and-forwards-to-the-next-few-generations\/\">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":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}