{"id":70977,"date":"2026-02-18T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70977"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:20:46","slug":"pork-and-the-pigs-that-enable-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/pork-and-the-pigs-that-enable-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork and the pigs that enable it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crusading spirit<br \/>\nFrom activists show<br \/>\nMoments of chivalry<br \/>\nAnd a pig farm  on show<br \/>\nOver the wall witness to their plight<br \/>\nLong suffering piglets<br \/>\nCrowded in pens<br \/>\nCovered in shit<br \/>\nWith lots of their friends<\/p>\n<p>They piss and they shit<br \/>\nWhere they walk, where they lay<br \/>\nPoor little babies living this way<br \/>\n Stony hearted the piggeries<br \/>\nUnmoved are they<br \/>\nAbnormal living<br \/>\nDay after day<br \/>\nWilful neglect<br \/>\nUnwilling to care<br \/>\nA bungling management<br \/>\nEverywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Mismanaged and bungled<br \/>\nAbandoned all day<br \/>\nLeft in the dark<br \/>\nIn so much dismay<br \/>\nOffhand and rude<br \/>\nThevpiglets they cry<br \/>\nMarginalised till the  moment they die<\/p>\n<p>Utter contempt<br \/>\nThe name of the game<br \/>\nLying in shit<br \/>\nIt\u2019s what we claim<br \/>\nLeaving them worthless<br \/>\nSpurned every hour<br \/>\nThe carping and niggling<br \/>\nFrom the blacklisted  power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crusading spirit From activists show Moments of chivalry And a pig farm on show Over the wall witness to their plight Long suffering piglets Crowded in pens Covered in shit With lots of their friends They piss and they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/pork-and-the-pigs-that-enable-it\/\">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":[749,4,13,22,377,23,580,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-animal-rights","category-business-management","category-death-and-dying","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-emotional-poems","category-piglets-suckling","category-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70977","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=70977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70978,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70977\/revisions\/70978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}