{"id":759446,"date":"2020-01-26T07:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759446"},"modified":"2020-01-26T08:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T13:09:37","slug":"food-for-thought-polish-european-parliament-member-sylwia-spurek-compares-animal-abuse-to-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759446","title":{"rendered":"CHEW ON IT: Polish MEP Sylwia Spurek compares animal abuse to Jewish Holocaust"},"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>'In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis.' (Isaac Bashevis Singer). 'It's time for a serious discussion about the treatment of animals.' (Sylwia Spurek).<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IDAN ZONSHINE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Polish European Parliament member Sylwia Spurek stirred up controversy&#8230; after tweeting a drawing by vegan artist and activist Jo Frederiks, that depicts cows walking through a slaughterhouse corridor in clothes reminiscent of those worn by Jews in Nazi concentration camps&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In the tweet, Spurek said the drawing gives &#8220;food for thought,&#8221; saying that &#8220;it&#8217;s time for a serious discussion about the treatment of animals, the conditions in which they live, and how we kill them. Is this humane? Is this still agriculture?&#8221; &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>the timing for her tweet comes as world leaders, including the president of the European Parliament, gather in Jerusalem for the fifth World Holocaust Forum&#8230; High-level delegations from 49 countries are expected to take part in the main event at Yad Vashem&#8230; to remember the Holocaust and commit to fighting antisemitism&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Diaspora\/Antisemitism\/Polish-European-Parliament-member-compares-Holocaust-to-animal-abuse-614946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cs7wlZgoJpE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDAN ZONSHINE: &#8216;Polish European Parliament member Sylwia Spurek stirred up controversy&#8230; after tweeting a drawing by vegan artist and activist Jo Frederiks, that depicts cows walking through a slaughterhouse corridor in clothes reminiscent of those worn by Jews in Nazi concentration camps&#8230; In the tweet, Spurek said the drawing gives &#8220;food for thought,&#8221; saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35,37,38],"class_list":["post-759446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-speciesism","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759446","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=759446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759455,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759446\/revisions\/759455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}