{"id":971,"date":"2012-01-23T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T10:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2012-01-23T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T10:48:52","slug":"thinking-about-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/thinking-about-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Eating an animals body<br \/>\nMeans killing the animal first<br \/>\nBut those that eat them seldom kill them<br \/>\nFor that work appears to be cursed<br \/>\nClinically that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing<br \/>\nIts all bloody chopped up so we<br \/>\nCan forget that it ever was, a real living creature<br \/>\nIt becomes a commodityWe can distance ourselves from its feelings<br \/>\nWe forget it was out in the field<br \/>\nLoving its life till along came the knife<br \/>\nAnd then it was all about yield<br \/>\nTo us its like bread or potato<br \/>\nJust a slice or a lump we can cook<br \/>\nSmother in ketchup or barbecue sauce<br \/>\nNot some sweet soul hung off a hook<br \/>\nIts blood pouring forth as its life force<br \/>\ndeparts<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t seek to hark back on that<br \/>\nIts ready we don&#8217;t have to think for a minute<br \/>\nWe might cut off some of the fatBut if just one time we could think for a moment<br \/>\nWhy we felt we needed meat<br \/>\nDo we have bloody great canines like wolves<br \/>\nNo when our teeth are complete<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t have those bloody great canines att all<br \/>\njust crushing and biting ones they<br \/>\nAre perfectly adequate for roots and leaves<br \/>\nAnd no animal has to pay<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gets the carnivore thinking if they are capable of considering the meat they are eating. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/thinking-about-animals\/\">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-971","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\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}