{"id":5275,"date":"2010-08-07T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/08\/07\/squirrel-meat-flies-off-supermarkets\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:38","slug":"squirrel-meat-flies-off-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5275","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel Meat Flies Off Supermarket&#8217;s Shelves in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19131,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guardian.co.uk\\\/environment\\\/2010\\\/jul\\\/29\\\/squirrel-meat-supermarket&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/environment\\\/2010\\\/jul\\\/29\\\/squirrel-meat-supermarket&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Guardian is reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/jul\/29\/squirrel-meat-supermarket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story in which a North London store<\/a> is selling squirrel meat. The store manager says &#8220;There are too many squirrels around, we might as well eat them rather than cull them and dispose of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>He predicted more people would eat squirrel in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s lovely. It&#8217;s bit like rabbit. I think there will be a lot of fuss about this now, but in a few years it will become accepted practice that we eat squirrels. People don&#8217;t bat an eyelid now about eating rabbit,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, of course, has animal rights activists in an absolute tizzy. Viva, a British animal rights group, is trying to organize a boycott of the store for promoting &#8220;a wildlife massacre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Its founder and director, Juliet Gellatley, said: &#8220;If this store is attempting to stand out from the crowd by selling squirrel, the only message they are giving out is that they are happy to have the blood of a beautiful wild animal on their hands for the sake of a few quid.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If one wonders why the sun has set on the British Empire, wonder no more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian is reporting a story in which a North London store is selling squirrel meat. The store manager&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3274,4077],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animal-rights-activists","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}