{"id":759215,"date":"2020-01-01T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T12:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759215"},"modified":"2020-01-01T07:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T12:34:43","slug":"2019-was-a-surprisingly-good-year-for-animal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759215","title":{"rendered":"FOR THE ANIMALS: 2019 was a surprisingly good year for animal rights"},"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>This time last year, both The Economist and Forbes predicted that 2019 would be the 'year of the vegan', and they were right.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ELISA ALLEN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;This time last year, both The Economist and Forbes predicted that 2019 would be the &#8220;year of the vegan&#8221;, and boy were they right! Wimbledon offered strawberries and vegan cream for the first time, Greggs added a vegan sausage roll to its line-up, Papa John&#8217;s introduced vegan cheese pizzas, and KFC launched the chicken-free Imposter burger. But the boom in plant-based fare is just one of the ways 2019 was remarkable for animals&#8230; Here are the year\u2019s eleven major achievements&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>As we head into a new year \u2013 and a new decade \u2013 let&#8217;s take a moment to reflect on some of the advances that were made to keep animals out of laboratories, far from abusement parks, away from our wardrobes, and more&#8230; Attitudes towards animals are evolving, and each new year brings exciting new victories. I can&#8217;t wait to see what we&#8217;ll achieve in 2020&#8242;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/animal-rights-new-year-veganism-cruelty-free-peta-a9264191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230; <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAiGV7X0Cw4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELISA ALLEN: &#8216;This time last year, both The Economist and Forbes predicted that 2019 would be the &#8220;year of the vegan&#8221;, and boy were they right! Wimbledon offered strawberries and vegan cream for the first time, Greggs added a vegan sausage roll to its line-up, Papa John&#8217;s introduced vegan cheese pizzas, and KFC launched the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,35,37,38],"class_list":["post-759215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759215","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=759215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759220,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759215\/revisions\/759220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}