{"id":25863,"date":"2018-01-28T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/28\/devon-police-under-fire-for-proposal-to-suspend-badger-protection-law\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T13:48:41","slug":"devon-police-under-fire-for-proposal-to-suspend-badger-protection-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25863","title":{"rendered":"Devon police under fire for proposal to suspend badger protection law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon and Cornwall force\u2019s idea to ease the pressure of policing the cull was termed \u2018appalling\u2019A police force has been strongly criticised by animal rights campaigners after proposing the suspension of the law that protects badgers in areas where the government\u2019s controversial cull has been taking place.Devon and Cornwall police suggested that decriminalising the taking of badgers in cull zones would ease pressure on resources, save the public money and could help stop the spread of bovine TB. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/28\/police-under-fire-for-suggesting-suspension-of-badger-welfare-law-devon-cornwall\" target=\"_blank\">Devon police under fire for proposal to suspend badger protection law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon and Cornwall force\u2019s idea to ease the pressure of policing the cull was termed \u2018appalling\u2019A police force has been strongly criticised by animal rights campaigners after proposing the suspension of the law that protects badgers in areas where the government\u2019s controversial cull has been taking place.Devon and Cornwall police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}