{"id":306,"date":"2007-09-11T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-09-11T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T09:29:11","slug":"306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/306\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Roddick RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan never had an opportunity to meet Anita Roddick but The Body Shop has always been present in my animal rights work. I recall when I lived in Brighton in 1979-1980 reading in the window of one of the original stores (if not <em>the<\/em> original) their policy against animal testing. Roddick and The Body Shop is a big reason why the testing of cosmetics on animals in Britain is illegal. As Body Shop&#8217;s international presence grew so did its influence in the European Union and throughout the world on animal testing. It&#8217;s always easy to find fault, including with The Body Shop. But one thing cannot be denied. Roddick was a business pioneer who challenged successfully the traditional business world. And that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan never had an opportunity to meet Anita Roddick but The Body Shop has always been present in my animal rights work. I recall when I lived in Brighton in 1979-1980 reading in the window of one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/306\/\">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":[9],"tags":[15,31],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-animals-in-research","tag-testing-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}