{"id":754603,"date":"2018-09-14T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754603"},"modified":"2018-09-14T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:00:30","slug":"six-held-in-france-over-vegan-attacks-on-lille-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754603","title":{"rendered":"Six held in France over vegan attacks on Lille shops"},"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>According to a 2016 survey, only around 3% of French people are vegetarian. But a number of recent incidents have sparked debate in a country that has a long culinary tradition of eating meat.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BBC NEWS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Six people have been held this week over a string of vegan activist attacks in the city of Lille, officials said. Nine businesses, including a butcher, fishmonger, cheese shop and a McDonald&#8217;s, have had windows smashed and fake blood thrown on their walls in recent months. Activists also spray-painted the slogan &#8220;Stop Speciesism&#8221;, a term denouncing unethical treatment of other species. Five of the six detained people have since been or will now be released&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>According to a 2016 survey, only around 3% of French people are vegetarian. But a number of recent incidents have sparked debate in a country that has a long culinary tradition of eating meat&#8230; The French government this year has introduced new regulations that ban vegetable-based food products in France from using words like &#8220;steak&#8221; and &#8220;sausage&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-45499368\" 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>BBC NEWS: &#8216;Six people have been held this week over a string of vegan activist attacks in the city of Lille, officials said. Nine businesses, including a butcher, fishmonger, cheese shop and a McDonald&#8217;s, have had windows smashed and fake blood thrown on their walls in recent months. Activists also spray-painted the slogan &#8220;Stop Speciesism&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35],"class_list":["post-754603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754603","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=754603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754605,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754603\/revisions\/754605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}