{"id":751197,"date":"2018-01-29T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751197"},"modified":"2018-01-29T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:34:04","slug":"the-issue-of-taxpayer-funded-cruelty-to-animals-confessions-from-an-awful-carnivorous-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751197","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer-funded cruelty to animals: The confession of an &#8216;awful, carnivorous hypocrite&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DEREK HUNTER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Let me start off by saying that I\u2019m a hypocrite. I eat meat, love me a good steak and am damn good at cooking one&#8230; What does that have to do with me being a hypocrite? Well, I love animals, more so than a lot of people, and it bothers me when I hear of animals being mistreated, for any reason.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>My hypocrisy doesn\u2019t end with just eating meat, in spite of my last name, I will never go hunting (with the possible exception of living in a zombie or some other type of post-apocalyptic world). I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to do it, to kill an animal. So, yes, I warmly embrace the idea that I\u2019m an awful, carnivorous hypocrite. And I\u2019m OK with that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I\u2019m also hypocritical in that there are some animals I care more about than others. So are most people, if they\u2019re being honest with themselves&#8230; I\u2019m not na\u00efve, I\u2019m more willfully ignorant. I choose not to think about it and bask in my own faux ignorance. But you can\u2019t live in a cocoon of ignorance all the time. I know experiments on animals happens in the private sector, but it\u2019s different when it\u2019s my tax dollars paying for cruelty&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2018\/01\/25\/taxpayer-funded-cruelty-to-animals-n2439072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kWbByyFgMmY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEREK HUNTER: &#8216;Let me start off by saying that I\u2019m a hypocrite. I eat meat, love me a good steak and am damn good at cooking one&#8230; What does that have to do with me being a hypocrite? Well, I love animals, more so than a lot of people, and it bothers me when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,23,25],"tags":[27,29],"class_list":["post-751197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751200,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751197\/revisions\/751200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}