{"id":752821,"date":"2018-04-17T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=752821"},"modified":"2018-04-17T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:03:27","slug":"outrage-as-bear-is-made-to-hand-match-ball-to-referee-before-russian-football-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=752821","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as bear is made to hand match-ball to referee before Russian football match"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The bear is the symbol of Russia, so we hope the country's people will show some compassion and national pride and stop abusing them.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\nJOHN HUTCHINSON:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A bear was made to perform in front of a Russian football crowd before handing over the match-ball to the referee. The astonishing scene played out before a game&#8230; in the country set to host the World Cup this summer&#8230; The footage has been blasted by animal rights charities as &#8220;inhumane&#8221; and &#8220;depressing&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Elisa Allen, director of animal welfare charity PETA told the BBC: &#8220;In addition to being inhumane and utterly out of touch, using a bear as a captive servant to deliver a football is downright dangerous&#8230; &#8220;The bear is the symbol of Russia, so we hope the country&#8217;s people will show some compassion and national pride and stop abusing them&#8230; Common decency should compel the league to pull this stunt&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/6068173\/russia-bear-entertains-crowd-animal-welfare-charity-blast\/\" 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\/beEEG5jOhik?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN HUTCHINSON: &#8216;A bear was made to perform in front of a Russian football crowd before handing over the match-ball to the referee. The astonishing scene played out before a game&#8230; in the country set to host the World Cup this summer&#8230; The footage has been blasted by animal rights charities as &#8220;inhumane&#8221; and &#8220;depressing&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-752821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752821","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=752821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752823,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752821\/revisions\/752823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}