{"id":623,"date":"2008-03-17T05:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-03-17T05:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:14:15","slug":"623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/623\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was as if someone gave Upton Sinclair a video camera and a Web link. Animal cruelty charges were filed, the slaughterhouse was shut down and Congress held hearings. The Agriculture Department announced the recall of more than 143 million pounds of meat &#8212; the largest in the nation&#8217;s history. (Cows so sick they can&#8217;t walk can&#8217;t legally be processed into food because they may have mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a form of which can be passed on to humans.)<\/p>\n<p>After more than 25 years of tactics that have included tossing a dead raccoon on to the lunch plate of Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor; boycotting fast-food restaurants; and staging legal challenges, the animal rights movement had a bona fide hit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/12\/dining\/12animal.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ei=5070&#038;en=7eb6178195c3290f&#038;ex=1205985600&#038;emc=eta1\n\">&#8220;Upton Sinclair, Now Playing on YouTube&#8221;<\/a> <em>The New York Times<\/em> March 12, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was as if someone gave Upton Sinclair a video camera and a Web link. Animal cruelty charges were filed, the slaughterhouse was shut down and Congress held hearings. The Agriculture Department announced the recall of more than 143 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/623\/\">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":[13,33],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-animals-in-agriculture","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}