{"id":922,"date":"2008-11-05T03:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2008-11-05T03:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T07:51:38","slug":"922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/922\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals Win in US State Ballots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to every organization and each individual who gave their time and financial support to two successful pro-animal propositions in the U.S. elections!<\/p>\n<p>In California Proposition 2, which requires factory farms to provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs, was approved by 62% of the electorate (38% opposed) as of 11 p.m. pacific time. This measure effectively ends intensive factory farming practices.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts Question 3, which bans greyhound racing in 2010, was approved by 56% (44% opposed).<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsus.org\/press_and_publications\/press_releases\/voting_for_animals_110408.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectdogs.org\/index.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to every organization and each individual who gave their time and financial support to two successful pro-animal propositions in the U.S. elections! In California Proposition 2, which requires factory farms to provide enough space for animals to stand up, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/922\/\">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":[3,7],"tags":[11,13,20],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-organising","tag-animal-protection-movement","tag-animals-in-agriculture","tag-companion-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}