{"id":2272,"date":"2009-06-03T23:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2009-06-04T02:02:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T18:02:35","slug":"for-their-own-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/06\/for-their-own-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"For Their Own Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student asked a Vegetarian Society friend, &#8216;If animals are not here to be eaten,\u00a0what are they here for?&#8217; I replied, &#8216;Maybe you could reply with a reflective question &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;If you are not here to be eaten by man-eating tigers,\u00a0what are you here for? As Alice Walker put it,\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.\u00a0<br \/>\nThey were not made for humans any more\u00a0than<br \/>\nblack people were made for white,\u00a0<br \/>\nor women created for men.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1AZn5nWIj_g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1AZn5nWIj_g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>On the video above&#8230; The relentlessness of the monkey&#8217;s naughty antics in taunting the tigers reminds me of how relentlessly naughty humans are in irritating, torturing and killing animals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student asked a Vegetarian Society friend, &#8216;If animals are not here to be eaten,\u00a0what are they here for?&#8217; I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}