{"id":755672,"date":"2018-12-24T09:19:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755672"},"modified":"2018-12-24T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:19:51","slug":"animal-rights-protestors-criticized-for-demonstrating-outside-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755672","title":{"rendered":"Animal rights protestors criticized for demonstrating outside children\u2019s hospital"},"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>Under the costumes and sleigh, these deer are exploited animals. Someone has to speak on behalf of the deer, because they don\u2019t have a voice.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>OLIVIA PETTER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Demonstrators have been criticised for protesting outside a children\u2019s hospital in Brisbane during a Christmas celebration in order to raise awareness of the \u201cexploitation\u201d of the reindeer involved. The young patients at Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, some of whom suffer from rare forms of cancer, were taking photographs with the animals who had been dressed to look like one of Santa\u2019s reindeer. They were interrupted when a group of eight animal rights activists began filming them and handing out leaflets about animal cruelty&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>One protestor named Daniel Heggie explained why he was so keen to voice his concerns. \u201cUnder the costumes and sleigh, these deer are exploited animals,\u201d he told Brisbane Times. \u201cSomeone has to speak on behalf of the deer, because they don\u2019t have a voice.\u201d The protestors were condemned on social media, with many taking issue at their choice of timing and location&#8230; Despite the disruption, parents and children in attendance on the day said they enjoyed the festivities&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/animal-rights-protestors-vegan-deer-queensland-childrens-hospital-a8688341.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\/6537c0bZPWc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLIVIA PETTER: &#8216;Demonstrators have been criticised for protesting outside a children\u2019s hospital in Brisbane during a Christmas celebration in order to raise awareness of the \u201cexploitation\u201d of the reindeer involved. The young patients at Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, some of whom suffer from rare forms of cancer, were taking photographs with the animals who had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,21,23,25],"tags":[28,30,35],"class_list":["post-755672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-kisnship","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755672","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=755672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755674,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755672\/revisions\/755674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}