{"id":1059,"date":"2009-03-20T05:25:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T09:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2009-03-20T05:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T09:25:25","slug":"1059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/1059\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the Downers Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hilda-in-van.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hilda-in-van.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a>The Grumpy Vegan believes it&#8217;s important to remember how the campaign against downers, which culminated in <a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/entry.php?id=1050\">Obama&#8217;s recent decision<\/a>, was started with the rescue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genebaur.com\/blogengine.net\/post\/2009\/03\/Incremental-Steps-for-Downers.aspx\">Hilda<\/a> by Farm Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Farm Sanctuary&#8217;s rescue of Hilda, a downed sheep who was left on the &#8220;dead pile&#8221; behind Lancaster Stockyards in 1986, media expos\u00e9s about downed animal abuses in the 80s and 90s led the U.S.D.A. to start a surveillance program to monitor stockyards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan believes it&#8217;s important to remember how the campaign against downers, which culminated in Obama&#8217;s recent decision, was started with the rescue of Hilda by Farm Sanctuary. After Farm Sanctuary&#8217;s rescue of Hilda, a downed sheep who was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/1059\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}