{"id":1228,"date":"2009-09-23T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2009-09-23T01:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:42:49","slug":"1228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/1228\/","title":{"rendered":"The Countryside Alliance\u2019s Stronger Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Countryside Alliance trills over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countryside-alliance.org.uk\/myblog\/The-march-seven-years-on-blog\/\">anniversary<\/a> of their Liberty &#038; Livelihood March.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems like only yesterday since the big day, which I spent frantically keeping the media up to speed from the back of a flatbed truck, looking down Whitehall as a sea of people walked towards us. In those seven years an incredible amount has happened. The Liberty &#038; Livelihood March was not just about the symbolic issue of hunting, of course. It was also about respect and tolerance, and about giving a voice to a countryside in decline. The reasons we marched that day are just as relevant now, but it is for the issue of hunting that the march is best remembered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hunting Act was, of course, nothing about cruelty to animals but <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an illiberal and spiteful swipe at a section of society made of stronger stuff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But not sufficiently &#8220;stronger stuff&#8221; to debate the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The Countryside Alliance declined IFAW&#8217;s invitation to debate the Hunting Act at the forthcoming Conservative Party Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sadly, we must decline. Our position on this subject and that of the Conservative Party is a matter of public record and is well known to MP&#8217;s and candidates alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Countryside Alliance trills over the anniversary of their Liberty &#038; Livelihood March. It seems like only yesterday since the big day, which I spent frantically keeping the media up to speed from the back of a flatbed truck, looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/1228\/\">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":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}