{"id":287,"date":"2007-09-03T03:16:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-09-03T03:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:16:30","slug":"287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/287\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Ruesch\u2013Not RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It disturbs the Grumpy Vegan to find that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.peta.org\/archives\/2007\/08\/big_thorn_in_bi.php\">the folks at PETA<\/a> are upset about the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/03\/sports\/03ruesch.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">Hans Ruesch<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What short, selective or nonexistent memories people have?<\/p>\n<p>Ruesch&#8217;s books were emotional diatribes against animal research that were undocumented and therefore unusable. He peddled a paranoid conspiracy theory that all the anti-vivisection groups who disagreed with him were in cahoots with the drug companies. His rantings inspired some to even physically attack a highly reputed, scientifically qualified vegan, anti-vivisection opponent, Dr. Gill Langley, advisor to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drhadwentrust.org.uk\/\">Dr. Hadwen Trust<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And if all this isn&#8217;t enough I recall him speaking unapologetically in support of an interview he gave to a magazine published by a British fascist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It disturbs the Grumpy Vegan to find that the folks at PETA are upset about the death of Hans Ruesch. What short, selective or nonexistent memories people have? Ruesch&#8217;s books were emotional diatribes against animal research that were undocumented and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/287\/\">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":[3,7],"tags":[11,15,31],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-organising","tag-animal-protection-movement","tag-animals-in-research","tag-testing-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}