{"id":65554,"date":"2018-01-10T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65554"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:14:10","slug":"a-sign-youve-solved-all-the-serious-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65554","title":{"rendered":"A Sign You&#8217;ve Solved All The Serious Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs at Los Angeles&#8217; animal shelters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/animalia\/wp\/2017\/12\/12\/shelter-dogs-could-go-vegan-in-los-angeles\/?utm_term=.25a908a20cd0\">may\u00a0 be going vegan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea was proposed by Commissioner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laanimalservices.com\/about-us-2\/commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Wolfson<\/a>, a\u00a0Hollywood screenwriter who cited research that he\u00a0contended shows vegan diets \u201celiminate\u201d many health problems in dogs, which are omnivores. But he said rethinking the dogs\u2019 meals is about far more sweeping matters \u2014\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/animalia\/wp\/2017\/08\/04\/the-hidden-environmental-costs-of-dog-and-cat-food\/?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.c5b60077c26f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">environmental effect<\/a>\u00a0of a meat industry that produces the main ingredients in\u00a0lots of dog food and the ethics of feeding animals to animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to embrace the fact that the raising and killing of animals for food purposes must only be done if we have absolutely no other choice,\u201d Wolfson said at the meeting, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laanimalservices.com\/about-us-2\/commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording published<\/a>\u00a0on a county website. \u201cThis is about the long-term survival of every man, woman and child in this room, and all of the people in our lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While &#8220;progressives&#8221; are all about &#8220;science&#8221; when it comes to smooching Bill Nye&#8217;s hindquarters or browbeating fundamentalists, it&#8217;d seem they&#8217;re swimming against the scientific current here&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city\u2019s chief veterinarian, Jeremy Prupas, was not convinced.\u00a0In\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laanimalservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11282017-agd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report to the commission<\/a>, he recommended rejecting the proposal, saying that it could deprive dogs of\u00a0sufficient protein, calcium and phosphorus and that it could be inadequate for\u00a0injured, pregnant or lactating pups. Prupas said he\u2019d consulted three clinical nutritionists at veterinary medical schools, one shelter medicine specialist and\u00a0a veterinary toxicologist who works with a pet food company. None endorsed vegan dog diets, he testified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; and vegan dog food, not unlike vegan human food, costs four times as much as the regular stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Which is all fine, if you&#8217;re just playing &#8220;government dress-up&#8221; with other peoples&#8217; money.<\/p>\n<p>Which is another way of saying &#8220;California&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although if it passes in LA, look for Alondra Cano to propose it in short order in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs at Los Angeles&#8217; animal shelters may\u00a0 be going vegan: The idea was proposed by Commissioner\u00a0Roger Wolfson, a\u00a0Hollywood screenwriter who cited research that he\u00a0contended shows vegan diets \u201celiminate\u201d many health problems in dogs, which are omnivores. But he said rethinking the dogs\u2019 meals is about far more sweeping matters \u2014\u00a0the\u00a0environmental effect\u00a0of a meat industry that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,18,374,255],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-65554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america","category-pc","category-social-justice","category-the-racket","tag-alondra-cano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65594,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65554\/revisions\/65594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}