{"id":31724,"date":"2021-05-04T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/04\/new-zealand-treats-animals-inhumanely-but-it-could-become-a-world-leader-in-their-welfare"},"modified":"2021-05-04T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:00:10","slug":"new-zealand-treats-animals-inhumanely-but-it-could-become-a-world-leader-in-their-welfare-philip-mckibbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31724","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand treats animals inhumanely \u2013 but it could become a world leader in their welfare | Philip McKibbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our country has already set examples on issues like women\u2019s suffrage and anti-nuclear policy. It can do the same again<\/p>\n<p>Aotearoa New Zealand is a pretty good place to live \u2013 if you\u2019re human, that is. If you happen to be a <em>non-human<\/em> animal, chances are you\u2019re not doing very well.<\/p>\n<p>Inhumane treatment of animals is widespread. It is routinely used in farming (the dairy industry is among the worst perpetrators, as <a href=\"https:\/\/safe.org.nz\/our-work\/animals-in-need\/cows-2\/\">forced pregnancies, separation of calves from their mothers, and slaughter are routine practices<\/a>); conservation (poison and traps are commonly used to control \u201cpests\u201d); scientific research (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/shocking-number-animals-used-bred-scientific-research-in-nz-animal-rights-group\">430,000 animals were used or bred for experiments last year<\/a>); and entertainment (such as horse racing and rodeo).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/04\/new-zealand-treats-animals-inhumanely-but-it-could-become-a-world-leader-in-their-welfare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our country has already set examples on issues like women\u2019s suffrage and anti-nuclear policy. It can do the same againAotearoa New Zealand is a pretty good place to live \u2013 if you\u2019re human, that is. If you happen to be a non-human animal, chances are yo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31725,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31724\/revisions\/31725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}