{"id":71299,"date":"2026-04-26T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71299"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:50:03","slug":"evolutionary-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/evolutionary-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our culinary ladles<br \/>\nSadly appear<br \/>\nTo more often than not<br \/>\nFind a reason to fear<br \/>\nOn laboratory tables<br \/>\nOr in specimen jars<br \/>\nApes can be found<br \/>\nAnd are somewhat the stars<br \/>\nNo choice no sacrifice<br \/>\nApparently<br \/>\nSome will eat monkey meat<br \/>\nApparently<br \/>\nRemember as children<br \/>\nOur teachers were there<br \/>\nWe believed<br \/>\nThem apparently<br \/>\nWhat they<br \/>\ndid  share<br \/>\nLegs of lamb<br \/>\nAnd calf cutlets<br \/>\nBabies of choice<br \/>\nThrottled and silenced<br \/>\nThey failed to give voice<br \/>\nTo the agonised screams<br \/>\nOf the slaughter mans axe<br \/>\nFilling our guts<br \/>\nWith the murderous facts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our culinary ladles Sadly appear To more often than not Find a reason to fear On laboratory tables Or in specimen jars Apes can be found And are somewhat the stars No choice no sacrifice Apparently Some will eat monkey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/evolutionary-ladder\/\">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":[4,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-meat-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299","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=71299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71300,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299\/revisions\/71300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}