{"id":231,"date":"2014-11-26T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/?p=231"},"modified":"2014-11-26T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:54:19","slug":"cruel-santa-and-killer-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/2014\/11\/26\/cruel-santa-and-killer-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruel Santa and killer seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Santa is a bad boy who keeps his presents back? I was just told that a couple of farms that increase their income by being Christmas winter lands have come under criticism for the treatment of reindeer. They are worried about reprisals from animal activists. Oddly a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk\/Grey-seals-attack-swimmers-British-waters-experts\/story-24723425-detail\/story.html?\" title=\"killer seals\" target=\"_blank\">story in the Telegraph<\/a> goes the other way: showing how seals may commit harm. But would they be doing wrong? If animals are to be treated as moral patients, should they &#8212; are they &#8212; also moral agents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Santa is a bad boy who keeps his presents back? I was just told that a couple of farms that increase their income by being Christmas winter lands have come under criticism for the treatment of reindeer. They are worried about reprisals from animal activists. Oddly a story in the Telegraph goes the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/2014\/11\/26\/cruel-santa-and-killer-seals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cruel Santa and killer seals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}