{"id":856,"date":"2012-01-13T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2012-01-13T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:39:08","slug":"barren-battery-cages-were-to-be-phased-out-by-112012-30-farms-in-uk-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/barren-battery-cages-were-to-be-phased-out-by-112012-30-farms-in-uk-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Barren Battery cages were to be phased out by 1\/1\/2012 30 farms in UK say NO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DEFRA says that 30 farms refuse<br \/>\n<!--more-->to ditch these cages<br \/>\nThey had 12 long years to comply<br \/>\nand that is blooming ages<br \/>\nImagine all the hens that<br \/>\nperished, all the hens that had<br \/>\nTo go through pain and torture<br \/>\nand all went bloody mad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chickens are not prisoners<br \/>\nThey forage and they roost<br \/>\nThey stretch their wings<br \/>\nThey like dust baths<br \/>\nFor them there is no boost<br \/>\nHell is the production<br \/>\nIts easier for those<br \/>\nWho put profit before welfare<br \/>\nAnd of course the profit grows<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Their charges, are the chickens<br \/>\nWhose eggs they bloody sell<br \/>\nStolen from the chicken<br \/>\nSomething we do well<br \/>\nImprison them, and feed them badly<br \/>\nStuff them in a shed<br \/>\nWith artificial lighting<br \/>\nand ventilation, and that said<br \/>\nTurn them from a sentient<br \/>\nto a worn out sick machine<br \/>\nA machine you&#8217;d look after better<br \/>\nThan the chicken, we&#8217;re so mean<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To what what God has created<br \/>\n<!--more-->We treat them terribly<br \/>\nAnd to think that farmers<br \/>\nsnub their nose to DEFRA now<br \/>\nshows me<br \/>\nThe supermarkets started this<br \/>\nnot prepared to pay<br \/>\na proper price<br \/>\nto farmers<br \/>\nWho cut corners anyway<br \/>\nIf they can keep the old wolf<br \/>\nfrom their rusty door<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and make some extra margin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they will do that more and more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">l<br \/>\nConsumers all they want is food<br \/>\nthats cheaper, How we kill<br \/>\nWho cares about the chickens<br \/>\nCan anyone instil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">an attitude of caring<br \/>\nWhen no one cares,\u00a0 a bit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">t<br \/>\nAnd so the voiceless suffer<br \/>\nAnother bird they cram<br \/>\ninto a tiny A4 cage<br \/>\nit is, it is a sham<br \/>\nThey cannot sit or move<br \/>\nIts total Hell which we all know<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Millions of them suffer fractures as they grow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thinking of the brutish nasty<br \/>\nfilthy manner we<br \/>\nKeep these poor birds in<br \/>\nI say imagine it\u00a0 now, with me<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999 they were to comply by 2012 1\/1 but 30 or so farms have said no,other countries in EU have said no too <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/barren-battery-cages-were-to-be-phased-out-by-112012-30-farms-in-uk-say-no\/\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}