{"id":555,"date":"2008-01-28T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-01-28T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:33:36","slug":"555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/555\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Animal Rights Movement fails to say to the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan observes that over the years the media &#8220;discovers&#8221; animal rights and publishes articles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2008-01-27-animal-activists_N.htm\">this<\/a> in <em>USA Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is all well and good.<\/p>\n<p>But the most important message that we should be making about the moral and legal status of animals is once again not being made.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>USA Today<\/em> frames our use of animals as a consumer-based, lifestyle choice issue. Yes, of course, it is.<\/p>\n<p>But it is more than that. It is the responsibility of government, too. It is a <bold>public policy issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we were to make this focus of our activities, well, the quote from the American Meat Institute that concludes the article wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;people have different opinions about what constitutes humane handling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AMI would be saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, farmers care about the animals they raise, which is why we&#8217;re complying with state and federal legislation phasing out the battery cage and other similarly egregious practices that we no longer condone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan observes that over the years the media &#8220;discovers&#8221; animal rights and publishes articles such as this in USA Today. This is all well and good. But the most important message that we should be making about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/555\/\">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":[3,4,7],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-eating","category-organising","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}