{"id":753721,"date":"2018-06-27T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753721"},"modified":"2018-06-27T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:03:01","slug":"citing-anti-meat-sentiment-butchers-in-france-seek-police-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753721","title":{"rendered":"Citing Anti-Meat Sentiment, Butchers in France Seek Police Protection"},"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>We have a very clear position: We are completely against ugly language and violent expressions of opinion. Veganism is about reducing violence.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ALISSA J. RUBIN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;French butchers say they\u2019ve had enough. Not only must they confront media coverage of the \u201cvegan way of life,\u201d now they say they are under assault. After a series of small but unprecedented incidents, the butchers federation says its members need protection from militants who have broken windows, thrown fake blood and sprayed graffiti on their shops&#8230; Butchers in different parts of the country have been targeted recently with fake blood by anti-meat or animal-rights groups. In the northeastern city of Lille and the surrounding region, vandals shattered widows and left graffiti saying \u201cStop Speciesism\u201d on a butcher\u2019s shop, a fishmonger, a restaurant and a rotisserie&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cAttacks like this, acts of violence against businesses are new in France,\u201d said Pierre Sans, a veterinary professor at the University of Toulouse who also studies food consumption. \u201cWe have seen it against slaughterhouses and laboratories, but towards a business that is selling legal foodstuffs, it\u2019s rather shocking&#8221;&#8230; The Vegan Federation also condemned the attacks. \u201cWe have a very clear position: We are completely against ugly language and violent expressions of opinion,\u201d said Constantin Imbs, leader of the federation&#8230; \u201cIt\u2019s very counterproductive,\u201d Mr. Imbs said. \u201cVeganism is about reducing violence&#8221;.&#8217; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/world\/europe\/france-butchers-vegans.html\" 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\/8VsHPCdN3EQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALISSA J. RUBIN: &#8216;French butchers say they\u2019ve had enough. Not only must they confront media coverage of the \u201cvegan way of life,\u201d now they say they are under assault. After a series of small but unprecedented incidents, the butchers federation says its members need protection from militants who have broken windows, thrown fake blood and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23],"tags":[27,31,38],"class_list":["post-753721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","tag-cruelty","tag-farming","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753721","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=753721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753723,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753721\/revisions\/753723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}