{"id":746,"date":"2008-06-05T05:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2008-06-05T05:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:19:35","slug":"746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/746\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day \u2014 Caroline Lucas MEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 263px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LucasGoodallLangley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LucasGoodallLangley.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here are, from left to right, Caroline Lucas MEP, Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Gill Langley presenting the Hadwen Trust's 150,000-plus signature petition in support of an EU-wide approach to ending animal research. <\/figcaption><\/figure>The Grumpy Vegan is impressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk\/home\/\">Caroline Lucas MEP<\/a>, who represents the Green Party in southeast England. She routinely speaks out well about the issues I care about. If only all MPs and MEPs and elected representatives were as thoughtful and insightful as she is. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, she held a high profile briefing on the future use of animals in medical research with Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Gill Langley of the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drhadwentrust.org.uk\/\">Hadwen Trust<\/a>. The objective is to develop a European Union strategy to phase out animal testing. Dr Goodall suggested creating a Nobel Prize for those who advance medical knowledge without the use of animal experimentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan is impressed by Caroline Lucas MEP, who represents the Green Party in southeast England. She routinely speaks out well about the issues I care about. If only all MPs and MEPs and elected representatives were as thoughtful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/746\/\">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":[33],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","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=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}