{"id":763383,"date":"2021-04-02T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763383"},"modified":"2021-04-02T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:02:48","slug":"free-for-all-meet-the-activists-freeing-animals-from-french-factory-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763383","title":{"rendered":"FREE-FOR-ALL: Meet the activists freeing animals from French factory farms"},"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>By engaging in direct action, animal rights activists risk prison sentences and hefty fines, but that isn't stopping them.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KARINA CHABOUR &amp; <span class=\"m-from-author__name\">JAMES VASINA: <\/span><\/strong>The number of groups engaging in direct action for animal welfare and animal rights is on the rise in France. Many of them don&#8217;t approve of violent tactics and instead focus on &#8220;freeing&#8221; animals such as pigs and cows from factory farms, blocking slaughterhouses and filming the conditions in which animals are kept \u2013 whether they&#8217;re raised for food or any other form of exploitation. In doing so, these activists risk prison sentences and hefty fines, but that isn&#8217;t stopping them. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Karina Chabour and James Vasina report on their strategy and motivations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/focus\/20210331-the-activists-freeing-animals-from-french-factory-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jjzn0a9T84o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARINA CHABOUR &amp; JAMES VASINA: The number of groups engaging in direct action for animal welfare and animal rights is on the rise in France. Many of them don&#8217;t approve of violent tactics and instead focus on &#8220;freeing&#8221; animals such as pigs and cows from factory farms, blocking slaughterhouses and filming the conditions in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,21,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35,37,38],"class_list":["post-763383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-kisnship","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\/763383","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=763383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763384,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763383\/revisions\/763384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/763385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}