{"id":562,"date":"2008-02-05T05:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2008-02-05T05:55:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T09:55:19","slug":"562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/562\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Animal welfare and fair trade are far bigger concerns to UK consumers than climate change, according to a huge new poll of UK shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Only 4% rate climate change as their top ethical priority, compared with 21% who think animal welfare is the most important issue and 14% who rate fair trade as their key concern.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come from a survey conducted by the Co-op grocery business that has been used to draw up a &#8220;responsible retailing&#8221; policy, designed to reflect shoppers&#8217; concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The Co-op claims the survey is the biggest poll of consumer ethics ever undertaken. The supermarket group analysed responses to a detailed, four-page questionnaire from more than 100,000 members and customers. It intends to use their responses to guide changes to the way it does business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As a result of the survey the Co-op is halting the sale and use of eggs from caged hens with immediate effect.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/2008\/feb\/04\/consumeraffairs.climatechange\">Shoppers care more about animals than climate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare and fair trade are far bigger concerns to UK consumers than climate change, according to a huge new poll of UK shoppers. Only 4% rate climate change as their top ethical priority, compared with 21% who think animal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/562\/\">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":[27,33],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}