{"id":662,"date":"2008-04-12T05:07:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T09:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-04-12T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T09:07:40","slug":"662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/662\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sales of free-range eggs have overtaken those from battery farms for the first time, it emerged yesterday. According to the British Egg Information Service, 51% of eggs bought last month were free-range, while 41% came from caged hens. The remainder came from a mixture of barn and organic farms.<\/p>\n<p>The trend comes amid strong growth generally in sales of organic produce, which have risen more than fourfold since 2000. <\/p>\n<p>But sales of free range eggs also received a significant boost from Jamie Oliver&#8217;s Fowl Dinners programme which highlighted issues of animal welfare this year, according to a spokesman for BEIS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/apr\/01\/food.ethicalliving\">Free-range outsell battery eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of free-range eggs have overtaken those from battery farms for the first time, it emerged yesterday. According to the British Egg Information Service, 51% of eggs bought last month were free-range, while 41% came from caged hens. The remainder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/662\/\">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-662","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\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}