{"id":71,"date":"2006-09-26T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T00:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-09-26T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T00:35:05","slug":"71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/71\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting and Fur protest update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 88px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otisferry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otisferry.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otis Ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>There is exciting news from England. A Devon huntsman has been found guilty of attacking an anti-bloodsports campaigner who was filming the hunt. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/devon\/5382592.stm\">BBC<\/a> reports Christopher Manes repeatedly punched Kevin Hill, a hunt monitor with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifaw.org\">International Fund for Animal Welfare<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Otis Ferry, son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/article1757275.ece\">reportedly<\/a> the target of PETA protestors at the Burberry spring\/summer collection show in Milan. Otis Ferry was once also a protestor. He and others disrupted the House of Commons when it was debating a ban on hunting with dogs in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>Protests of this kind are all well and good. But when are we going to learn that we must reframe the issue of wearing fur from a cruelty-free lifestyle choice issue to also one that places it squarely into the political arena?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is exciting news from England. A Devon huntsman has been found guilty of attacking an anti-bloodsports campaigner who was filming the hunt. The BBC reports Christopher Manes repeatedly punched Kevin Hill, a hunt monitor with the International Fund for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/71\/\">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":[37],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}