{"id":1628,"date":"2002-02-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/08\/2002-02-08-actor-madhavan-caged-for-animal-rights\/"},"modified":"2002-02-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-08T12:00:00","slug":"2002-02-08-actor-madhavan-caged-for-animal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/08\/2002-02-08-actor-madhavan-caged-for-animal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Madhavan Caged for Animal Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.co.uk\/news_article.jhtml?type=worldnews&#038;StoryID=567965\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MADRAS, INDIA, February 4, 2002: R. Madhavan, a popular South Indian movie actor, crammed himself into a tiny cage and gripped its wire mesh to appeal for compassion for chickens as part of a campaign by an international animal rights group. He was posing for the campaign, &#8220;Compassion, Not Cages &#8212; Go Veg!&#8221; out of personal faith as a vegetarian. The event was organized by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). &#8220;It&#8217;s simple, I love animals so I don&#8217;t eat them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all seen chickens crammed in cages at butcher shops but nobody stops to think about the trauma they go through, never getting to run&#8230;they still feel pain just like you and me.&#8221; The drive by U.S.-based PETA is the latest animal rights campaign it has run in India. Last year, it demanded a boycott of Indian leather to press for more humane slaughter of cows.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MADRAS, INDIA, February 4, 2002: R. Madhavan, a popular South Indian movie actor, crammed himself into a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}