{"id":753924,"date":"2018-07-19T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753924"},"modified":"2018-07-19T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:01:50","slug":"priscilla-presley-kim-basinger-protest-dog-meat-trade-by-holding-actual-dead-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753924","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley, Kim Basinger protest dog-meat trade by holding actual dead dogs"},"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 dogs represented those that are routinely tortured before they are hung, beaten, electrocuted or boiled alive on South Korean dog meat farms.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MARIA PUENTE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The animal-rights movement is deploying a dramatic tactic in its battle against the Asian dog-meat trade, sending celebrities like Kim Basinger and Priscilla Presley out to picket while holding fluffy dead dogs in their arms and waving placards with grotesque pictures of canine carcasses&#8230; Their goal: to raise awareness in America about the annual &#8220;inhumane slaughter&#8221; of about one million dogs in the Korean dog-meat trade alone. Simultaneous protests took place in Washington, D.C. and in South Korea but the Los Angeles event was the one with the celebrities and the dead dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;The dogs represented those that are routinely tortured before they are hung, beaten, electrocuted or boiled alive on South Korean dog meat farms,&#8221; said Chris DeRose, founder the protest organizer, Last Chance for Animals, in an email to USA TODAY. &#8220;The purpose for using the dogs was to draw attention and encourage compassion for dogs as companion animals, regardless of what label South Korea puts on them&#8221;&#8230; Founded by DeRose in 1984, Last Chance for Animals hopes to ban human consumption of millions of dogs around the world&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/2018\/07\/18\/priscilla-presley-kim-basinger-protest-dog-meat-holding-dead-dogs\/795571002\/\" 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\/4wW8vwjebi8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARIA PUENTE: &#8216;The animal-rights movement is deploying a dramatic tactic in its battle against the Asian dog-meat trade, sending celebrities like Kim Basinger and Priscilla Presley out to picket while holding fluffy dead dogs in their arms and waving placards with grotesque pictures of canine carcasses&#8230; Their goal: to raise awareness in America about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,21,23],"tags":[26,31,35],"class_list":["post-753924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-compassion","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753924","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=753924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753926,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753924\/revisions\/753926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}