{"id":478,"date":"2007-12-12T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2007-12-12T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:50:33","slug":"478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/478\/","title":{"rendered":"And the relevance to human wellbeing is\u2026..?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/japan\/story\/0,,2226236,00.html\">&#8220;Japanese scientists create mice with no fear of cats&#8221;<\/a>, reports <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So by applying this theory to other mammals, we will probably be able to make other animals that are not afraid of their natural enemies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn10108\n\">empathy gene has been found in humans<\/a>, it won&#8217;t be long before science puts two and two together to make animals who have their sense of fear <strong>and<\/strong> empathy removed. <\/p>\n<p>And when will people be bred to be like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Japanese scientists create mice with no fear of cats&#8221;, reports The Guardian. &#8220;So by applying this theory to other mammals, we will probably be able to make other animals that are not afraid of their natural enemies.&#8221; And now that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/478\/\">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":[15,31],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-animals-in-research","tag-testing-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}