{"id":4903,"date":"2016-05-20T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2016-05-20T07:45:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:45:22","slug":"the-cost-of-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-cost-of-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of confinement&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.is generally discussed in terms of cost\/benefit ratios.\u00a0 What is it worth to keep an animal confined to a pen, indoors&#8230;sometimes even immobilized&#8230;in order to put cheap meat on your table?\u00a0 (Forget, for the moment,\u00a0that it is mostly unhealthy meat.)<\/p>\n<p>In the abstract, a few may understand that the animal is paying a terrible price but it&#8217;s not often we have its testimony.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a young bull that was kept tethered for &#8220;only&#8221; a few months because bulls are &#8220;hard to handle&#8221; and he&#8217;ll be dead soon anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyliked.net\/chained-bull-set-free\/\">http:\/\/www.dailyliked.net\/chained-bull-set-free\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Thistle Hill, we have two bull pastures&#8230;.generally about 10 bulls in each&#8230;.living together peacefully&#8230;.perfectly safe to handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.is generally discussed in terms of cost\/benefit ratios.\u00a0 What is it worth to keep an animal confined to a pen, indoors&#8230;sometimes even immobilized&#8230;in order to put cheap meat on your table?\u00a0 (Forget, for the moment,\u00a0that it is mostly unhealthy meat.) In the abstract, a few may understand that the animal is paying a terrible price but it&#8217;s not often we have its testimony.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a young bull that was kept tethered for &#8220;only&#8221; a few months because bulls are &#8220;hard to handle&#8221; and he&#8217;ll be dead soon anyway. http:\/\/www.dailyliked.net\/chained-bull-set-free\/ At Thistle Hill, we have two bull pastures&#8230;.generally about 10 bulls in each&#8230;.living together peacefully&#8230;.perfectly safe to handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-on-the-soap-box","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}