{"id":1581,"date":"2011-06-21T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2011-06-21T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T04:08:59","slug":"animal-rights-organisations-why-are-there-so-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/animal-rights-organisations-why-are-there-so-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal rights organisations &#8211; why are there so many splinter groups?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there so many animal rights organisation instead of just one or two large groups?\u00a0 Just here in Australia we have the main national organisations:\u00a0 \u00a0Animals Australia, PETA, Animal Liberation, RSPCA,Voiceless and Act Now For Animals (ANFA).\u00a0 There are dozens of local groups and hundreds in Europe and North America.\u00a0\u00a0 They&#8217;re pushing for a huge raft of things, from banning leather cricket balls to guide dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t there just one or two great big, organisations united in pursuit of their common belief in animal liberation?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The myriad of splinter groups says it all really &#8211; fanatics teetering on the brink can&#8217;t get along with one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The relative unity of Australia&#8217;s primary production industry is very obvious by comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there so many animal rights organisation instead of just one or two large groups?\u00a0 Just here in Australia we have the main national organisations:\u00a0 \u00a0Animals Australia, PETA, Animal Liberation, RSPCA,Voiceless and Act Now For Animals (ANFA).\u00a0 There are dozens of local groups and hundreds in Europe and North America.\u00a0\u00a0 They&#8217;re pushing for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}