{"id":751294,"date":"2018-02-07T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751294"},"modified":"2018-02-07T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:20:23","slug":"fish-are-getting-their-animal-rights-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751294","title":{"rendered":"Fish Are Getting Their Animal Rights Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MARC GUNTHER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Life is improving for billions of farm animals. Pregnant pigs are being liberated from gestation crates. Laying hens have more room to roam. Cows are humanely slaughtered. But fish? They\u2019re the \u201cforgotten victims on our plate,\u201d says the philosopher and animal-rights activist Peter Singer, even though more of them are killed each year for food than all other animals combined. Of the dozens of investigations of factory farms done by advocates for animals, just one\u2014a 2011 expos\u00e9 of a Texas catfish farm\u2014looked at fish. And unlike cows and pigs, fish are not covered by U.S. federal law requiring humane methods of slaughter. Can consumers be persuaded to care?&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We\u2019ll soon see whether attitudes will change: The Open Philanthropy Project, a leading funder of the animal welfare movement, last year made three grants totaling $1.2 million to support European groups that advocate on behalf of fish, and awarded $1.5 million in funding to strengthen standards that address the well-being of fish. The hope is that reforms achieved in Europe, where consumers and governments are more attuned to animal welfare issues, will make their way to the U.S&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Much of the groundwork for improving fish welfare is being laid in Europe. Dyrevernalliansen, a Norwegian animal protection group, is working with fish farmers and retailers to identify practices that can be improved in Norway, the world\u2019s largest producer of farmed salmon. The Albert Schweitzer Foundation, which is based in Berlin, is developing fish standards in cooperation all the big German food retailers. \u201cThey seem to be very interested,\u201d says Mahi Klosterhalfen, the group\u2019s CEO, noting that German retailers were the first in Europe to agree to stop selling cage-free eggs&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2018\/01\/18\/fish-are-getting-their-animal-rights-moment\/\" 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\/fOTQvHX4D8M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARC GUNTHER: &#8216;Life is improving for billions of farm animals. Pregnant pigs are being liberated from gestation crates. Laying hens have more room to roam. Cows are humanely slaughtered. But fish? They\u2019re the \u201cforgotten victims on our plate,\u201d says the philosopher and animal-rights activist Peter Singer, even though more of them are killed each year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,23,25],"tags":[31,35,37],"class_list":["post-751294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751294","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=751294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751296,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751294\/revisions\/751296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}