{"id":2902,"date":"2018-03-30T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2018-03-30T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:22:35","slug":"a-bad-article-on-many-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Article on Multiple Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington post said: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/food\/wp\/2018\/03\/28\/the-vegans-came-to-protest-his-restaurant-so-this-chef-carved-a-deer-leg-in-the-window\/\">The vegans came to protest his restaurant. So this chef carved a deer leg in the window.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, there is no such protest group as &#8220;The Vegans.&#8221; Saying there is makes about as much sense as reporting that &#8220;The Jews&#8221; did something when only a particular subset of them did. Veganism is a dietary choice, full stop. All you need to do to become vegan is refrain from eating any animal products. There is no organized movement you must join and adhere to.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the restaurant was targeted not because it simply served meat, but because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It served a particularly cruel meat product, foie gras, and<\/li>\n<li>Its advertising crassly tried to portray the establishment as an ethically responsible dining choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, the restaurant&#8217;s owners basically painted a huge target on their backs, then act surprised when that target starts attracting brickbats.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, foie gras <em>is<\/em> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/force_fed_animals\/\">particularly cruel<\/a> meat product, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/issues\/animals-used-for-food\/factory-farming\/ducks-geese\/foie-gras\/\">far worse<\/a> than the norm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington post said: The vegans came to protest his restaurant. So this chef carved a deer leg in the window. First, there is no such protest group as &#8220;The Vegans.&#8221; Saying there is makes about as much sense as reporting that &#8220;The Jews&#8221; did something when only a particular subset of them did. Veganism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}