{"id":9271,"date":"2013-06-29T08:39:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T08:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2013-06-29T08:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T08:44:47","slug":"lyall-watson-knew-pigs-for-what-they-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/lyall-watson-knew-pigs-for-what-they-really-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyall Watson knew pigs for what they really are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pigs are as intelligent<br \/>\nas children<br \/>\nwith wild instinctive<br \/>\nknowledge which is why<br \/>\nto house them in such dark<br \/>\ndepraved depressing CAFO<br \/>\nconcrete cells and gestation crates<br \/>\nforces me to sigh<br \/>\nto feel their inner sadness<br \/>\nwhich is paramount<br \/>\nthey have strong caring hearts<br \/>\nthat love to be<br \/>\ncloser to each other<br \/>\nplaying in the sun<br \/>\nrooting in the woods<br \/>\nto just be free<\/p>\n<p>to be themselves<br \/>\nthey are socially so active<br \/>\nthey may not be Brad PIGS<br \/>\nBUT LOVE runs deep<br \/>\nconsuming them as many do<br \/>\nand making them sleep in their loo<br \/>\nreally and truthfully makes their<br \/>\npoor flesh creep<\/p>\n<p>they pay a high price<br \/>\nfor involvement with the<br \/>\nMan un Kind brigade<br \/>\nwith the farmers and the butchers<br \/>\nand the slaughterhouse parade<br \/>\nwith the TV chef&#8217;s and bacon<br \/>\nchomping leg of pork and apple sauce<br \/>\nsuckling pigs chop chewers<br \/>\nyes all these of course<\/p>\n<p>they are very clean<br \/>\nthey cannot sweat<br \/>\nso mud is their desire<br \/>\nit cools them down<br \/>\nand saves their skin<br \/>\nfrom the  cancer<br \/>\nvia sun fire<\/p>\n<p>they are closer to us really<br \/>\nthan many might admit<br \/>\nthey can play all sorts of games<br \/>\nand share their brand of wit<br \/>\nthey communicate and identify<br \/>\nfaces every day<br \/>\nand with inner peace<br \/>\nthey can release<br \/>\ntheir feelings so to say<\/p>\n<p>but we are their abusers<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s little to discuss<br \/>\nwhat we must do is love them<br \/>\nnot give them so much fuss<br \/>\nnot breed them in our dark satanic mills<br \/>\nour dank wet holes<br \/>\nlet them root in forests<br \/>\nfor pigs are lovely souls<\/p>\n<p>and read Lyall Watsons the Whole Hog<br \/>\nISBN 1-86197-9 it will change your life<br \/>\nforever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigs are as intelligent as children with wild instinctive knowledge which is why to house them in such dark depraved depressing CAFO concrete cells and gestation crates forces me to sigh to feel their inner sadness which is paramount they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/lyall-watson-knew-pigs-for-what-they-really-are\/\">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":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","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=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9275,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}