{"id":223,"date":"2007-08-08T04:11:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T08:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-08-08T04:11:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T08:11:41","slug":"223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/223\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot and Mouth is an Economic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/footandmouthfire_1189977_fire300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/footandmouthfire_1189977_fire300.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2001 foot and mouth outbreak more than 7 million animals were killed and their carcasses burnt in funeral pyres throughout Britain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/country\/article\/0,,2143847,00.html\"><em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> has what it calls an &#8220;Explainer&#8221; that contains the following key point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain came within hours of vaccinating cattle in 2001 after it was recommended by vets to protect animals in Cumbria and Devon. But farm leaders were sceptical and the food industry lobbied strongly for it not to be used because <strong>it was concerned it would affect export markets and put off consumers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The huge disincentive against vaccinating is that under trade rules any vaccinated animals have to go into a separate supply chain. This is <strong>costly and puts business off,<\/strong>&#8221; said Lawrence Woodward, director of the Elm Farm organic research centre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Guardian has what it calls an &#8220;Explainer&#8221; that contains the following key point: Britain came within hours of vaccinating cattle in 2001 after it was recommended by vets to protect animals in Cumbria and Devon. But farm leaders were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/223\/\">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":[3,4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}