{"id":73003,"date":"2026-11-01T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=73003"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:02:31","slug":"the-frighteningly-painful-world-of-the-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-frighteningly-painful-world-of-the-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"The frighteningly painful world of the Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tail docking<br \/>\nAnd sheep shearing<br \/>\nRepeated insemination<br \/>\nMulesed Merino torture<br \/>\nAgony creation<br \/>\nCarving strips of skin and flesh<br \/>\nOff the legs and around their tails<br \/>\nAustralia is doing it<br \/>\nIn significance it pales<br \/>\nBuy vegan or organic<br \/>\nShort lives of grotesque pain<br \/>\nBetter animal welfare<br \/>\nChoose VEGAN<br \/>\nPlease choose vegan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tail docking And sheep shearing Repeated insemination Mulesed Merino torture Agony creation Carving strips of skin and flesh Off the legs and around their tails Australia is doing it In significance it pales Buy vegan or organic Short lives of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-frighteningly-painful-world-of-the-sheep\/\">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":[749,905,492,4,145,647,124,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-animal-rights","category-lambs-and-sheep","category-meat-trade","category-veganism-and-me","category-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73003","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=73003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73004,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73003\/revisions\/73004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}