{"id":68478,"date":"2025-06-12T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68478"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:15:22","slug":"live-exports-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/06\/live-exports-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Live exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How sick are the farmers<br \/>\nThe butchers the trade<br \/>\nConsigning live souls to halal<br \/>\nDeaths a raid<br \/>\non innocent angels<br \/>\nShipping,<br \/>\nfar away<br \/>\nOft slaughtered in the street<br \/>\nIn the most cruel display<\/p>\n<p>Its religious fervour<br \/>\nYoung lambs and we know<br \/>\nThey are shipped in bad weather<br \/>\nTossed about in the flow<br \/>\nBattered and frightened<br \/>\nAnd broken and lost<br \/>\nMany will be crushed<br \/>\nAt a terrible cost<\/p>\n<p>Some tossed overboard<br \/>\nDead to the world<br \/>\nBattered and bruised<br \/>\nJust bloody well hurled<br \/>\nthis way and that<br \/>\nInside the hold<br \/>\nFrightened and hungry<br \/>\nAnd bloody well cold<\/p>\n<p>Live exports going to their slaughter alone<br \/>\nSome will be killed in the street<br \/>\nHear them moan<br \/>\nHalal,  their hearts weaken<br \/>\nCut down and killed<br \/>\nNot stunned their throats slashed<br \/>\nTheir rich red blood spilled <\/p>\n<p>It alien torture<br \/>\nIt\u2019s ugly murdering<br \/>\nReligious rights<br \/>\nAnd farmers sit back<br \/>\nCounting their money<br \/>\nRichly adorned<br \/>\nWith thousands now fated<br \/>\nAnd none of them warned<\/p>\n<p>From the green fields<br \/>\nInto trucks from the port to the dock<br \/>\nTo be shipped just like cargo<br \/>\nShock after shock<br \/>\nThe meat trade stinks<br \/>\nIt stinks to high bell<br \/>\nAnd live exports is wrong on all fronts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How sick are the farmers The butchers the trade Consigning live souls to halal Deaths a raid on innocent angels Shipping, far away Oft slaughtered in the street In the most cruel display Its religious fervour Young lambs and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/06\/live-exports-19\/\">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":[344,173,216,311,170,514,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-sacrifice","category-child-exploitation","category-children-and-their-plight-in-a-adult-world","category-halal","category-live-exports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478","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=68478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68481,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478\/revisions\/68481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}