{"id":9783,"date":"2013-07-18T01:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:09:17","slug":"we-must-wake-up-to-reality-and-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/we-must-wake-up-to-reality-and-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"We must wake up to reality, and soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to stop<br \/>\nand think<br \/>\nthe meat we order and we eat<br \/>\nwas a living breathing thinking caring<br \/>\nsoul<br \/>\nwhich does unseat<br \/>\nso many<br \/>\nwho now witness, the torture and the death<br \/>\nthe evil and the resentment<br \/>\nand how we  deny them breath<\/p>\n<p>the killing fields are all around us<br \/>\neverywhere we go<br \/>\nthe restaurants we pass by each day<br \/>\nthe hotels so much woe<br \/>\nexists before our eyes if we would only use them well<br \/>\ninstead we walk about half blind<br \/>\nand those souls consign to hell<\/p>\n<p>they themselves  are innocent<br \/>\nlife for them is sure<br \/>\nits paramount its what they need<br \/>\nits what they are living for<br \/>\ncreation gave that actual spark to them too<br \/>\nand what we<br \/>\ndo is decide to end there&#8217;s<br \/>\nwith our vile complacency<\/p>\n<p>we have eyes and we have ears<br \/>\nand we have hearts<br \/>\nbut what we do<br \/>\nis sit down on our asses<br \/>\nand  read the long menu<br \/>\nknowing in our very soul<br \/>\nthat to order any meat<br \/>\nwill mean another has to die<br \/>\nand others will mistreat<\/p>\n<p>them for profit hurls itself<br \/>\ninto the corporate pot<br \/>\neveryone is out for money<br \/>\nevery sectors got<br \/>\na wish to so compete<br \/>\nand by so doing multiply<br \/>\nthe numbers of farm animals<br \/>\nwho therefore have to die<\/p>\n<p>they are young and healthy<br \/>\nno sickness in their soul<br \/>\nwe are the sickly specimens<br \/>\nand the assassins role<br \/>\nfalls squarely on our shoulders<br \/>\nbut we resent that and<br \/>\nwe allocate procedures<br \/>\nand  it therefore leaves our hand<br \/>\nand someone else takes charge of it<br \/>\nbehind closed doors where we<br \/>\ncan carry on our ignorant lives<br \/>\nin perpetuity<\/p>\n<p>and those creatures great and small<br \/>\nwe sang about those years<br \/>\nall things bright and beautiful<br \/>\nwho shared the same dark fears<br \/>\nnow locked behind the great steel door<br \/>\nwe are where the sun shines<br \/>\nthey are in the dark<br \/>\nin some awful slaughterhouse<br \/>\nor waiting in strict lines<\/p>\n<p>we are out of tune<br \/>\nwith what is true reality<br \/>\nwe are numbed beyond belief<br \/>\nand so depravity<br \/>\nclouds our true perception<br \/>\nits lost in all that woe<br \/>\nin all that blood and mayhem<br \/>\nand the clamour that does grow<\/p>\n<p>the need for corporate profit<br \/>\nat the expense of those<br \/>\nwho have become commodities<br \/>\nnot something that they chose<br \/>\nthey were and are sweet entities<br \/>\nwith thoughts to love and care<br \/>\nbut have entered the corporate<br \/>\nmind set<br \/>\nwhich leads  onto  despair<\/p>\n<p>there is no valley deep enough<br \/>\nto hide in once they are there<br \/>\nfor they are doomed to violent death<br \/>\nand torture which we share<br \/>\nwe sit back on our laurels<br \/>\nwe listen to those who<br \/>\nare torturing and earning<br \/>\nfrom the perceived ones<br \/>\nwho we screw<\/p>\n<p>and screw we do, we hurt them<br \/>\nwe make them suffer so<br \/>\nwhether its somebody elses pet<br \/>\nor farm animals we know<br \/>\nwhether its a horse<br \/>\nthat grazes on some common ground<br \/>\nor a snake that slides and slithers<br \/>\nalmost without a sound<\/p>\n<p>for us we order meat<br \/>\nwe need meat to give us  power<br \/>\nthe strength we go to many a length<br \/>\nwe do so on the hour<br \/>\nwe  torture and we murder<br \/>\nin the name of those we need<br \/>\nto see the back of when it suits<br \/>\nand then we watch them bleed<\/p>\n<p>we know they suffer terribly<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve seen and heard their cries<br \/>\nno animals that have life<br \/>\nif healthy ever dies<br \/>\nunless we pull the chain on them<br \/>\nunless we give the nod<br \/>\nunless we order meat to eat<br \/>\nwhen they then meet their god<\/p>\n<p>and somehow we can overcome that torment<br \/>\nwe arranged<br \/>\nthe animal earthling suffers<br \/>\nas we are more deranged<br \/>\nas we are blocked  inside ourselves with the fear<br \/>\nthey took into<br \/>\nthe slaughterhouse<br \/>\nthe adrenaline and the combined sin<br \/>\non view<\/p>\n<p>it was there as well we knew it<br \/>\nall that blood and gore<br \/>\nthat a short time before was a living soul<br \/>\nwondering what for<br \/>\nwhy they had to be transported<br \/>\nlike sardines in some can<br \/>\nwhy they had to be so tortured<br \/>\nby the so called higher man<\/p>\n<p>higher thats debatable<br \/>\nlaughable in many ways<br \/>\nhow cruel man un kind has become<br \/>\nhe still cries when he pays<br \/>\nbut most of the time<br \/>\nthe earthlings are paying through the nose<br \/>\nanal electrocution<br \/>\nand the the threats thrust into<br \/>\nprose<\/p>\n<p>some will use their hands to close<br \/>\noff the reality<br \/>\nsome will cover their ears<br \/>\nthe cries then  cannot be<br \/>\nheard above the clamour<br \/>\nof those victims on the chains<br \/>\nbeaten slashed and their brains bashed<br \/>\nfor our ill gotten gains<\/p>\n<p>we have to wake up and be counted<br \/>\nwe have to see those who<br \/>\ngo before us to the house of slaughter<br \/>\nand who do<br \/>\nour penance as we look away<br \/>\nand ignorantly smile<br \/>\ntelling ourselves we need their flesh<br \/>\nhowever fucking vile <\/p>\n<p>it is or seems to be our only course of<br \/>\naction now<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve been so brainwashed by the meat trade<br \/>\nwho profit from the how<br \/>\nwho orchestrate the killings<br \/>\nthe maiming&#8217;s and the pain<br \/>\nbecause they are so selfish and so greedy<br \/>\nand they drain<\/p>\n<p>everything we had possessed<br \/>\nwithin us that was good<br \/>\nour understanding of what&#8217;s right<br \/>\nand really what we should<br \/>\nbe doing for the animals<br \/>\nand our dietary needs<br \/>\ntill the corporate monsters<br \/>\ntook control<br \/>\nand all of this then feeds<br \/>\ninto what is the melting pot<br \/>\nthe gruel is bubbling hot<br \/>\nwhere all of us then suffer<br \/>\nas our souls then have been shot<\/p>\n<p>away from true humility<br \/>\nof loving and of care<br \/>\nwe saw the cows in pastures green<br \/>\nbut now such sights are rare<br \/>\nincarceration in the concentration camps<br \/>\nwhere woe<br \/>\nis seen as very normal<br \/>\nits the way it has to go<\/p>\n<p>but now its gone too bloody far<br \/>\ntorture is their thing<br \/>\nand everyone  is suffering<br \/>\nyou can hear that rumbling<br \/>\nanimals are slaughtered<br \/>\nin their millions everyday<br \/>\nto feed the growing sicko&#8217;s<br \/>\nthat with their bodies pay<\/p>\n<p>the methane rises into<br \/>\nthe clouds and onwards to<br \/>\nthe ozone layer climates<br \/>\nare taking quite a screw<br \/>\nour rivers are polluted<br \/>\nthe soil itself is stripped<br \/>\ndie off now is everywhere<br \/>\nmortality has ripped<\/p>\n<p>great holes in humanity<br \/>\nsickness clouds those who<br \/>\npartake of all this murder<br \/>\nas the clueless mostly do<br \/>\nthey have joined the great meat eating<br \/>\nclan<br \/>\nand bought into what they do<br \/>\nthemselves up to  such scrutiny<br \/>\nfrom diseases that accrue<\/p>\n<p>vast clouds  of viral frighteners<br \/>\ndescend on us and we<br \/>\nhear the propaganda<br \/>\nand rapidly we be<br \/>\nfearful of outpourings<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re under the thumb of those<br \/>\nwho would see as mere fodder<br \/>\nand those numbers it seems grows<\/p>\n<p>larger by the second<br \/>\nmore and more now die<br \/>\nthe poor see grains fed to the animal earthlings<br \/>\nwho rely<br \/>\non so much of those precious yields<br \/>\nwhich were destined for the poor<br \/>\nwho starve now in their millions<br \/>\nwhilst the animals eat more<\/p>\n<p>we have to wake up<br \/>\nall of us<br \/>\nwe have to see those signs<br \/>\nwe have to hear those cries abroad<br \/>\nand wander down the lines<br \/>\nthe killing fields are everywhere<br \/>\nthe graves of those who die<br \/>\nare within our own bodies<br \/>\nin our chyme the vanquished lie<\/p>\n<p>. <\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to stop and think the meat we order and we eat was a living breathing thinking caring soul which does unseat so many who now witness, the torture and the death the evil and the resentment 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