{"id":4240,"date":"2011-10-08T23:10:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2011-10-08T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:10:23","slug":"would-you-eat-duck-if-it-was-treated-like-veal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/08\/would-you-eat-duck-if-it-was-treated-like-veal\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you eat duck if it was treated like veal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ad for Acme Supermarkets (where I guess Wile E. Coyote used to buy all his hunting gear) in the February 10, 1955 issue of the Washington, D.C. <em>Evening Star<\/em> hints that the ducks the company sells are treated like veal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ad, &#8220;swimming (as well as flying) develops stringy muscles, and Acme wants none of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LancasterDuck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LancasterDuck-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LancasterDuck\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LancasterDuck-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LancasterDuck-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LancasterDuck.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No wonder that bathing suit is hanging on a tree branch. The duck isn&#8217;t allowed to wear it.<\/p>\n<p>I suddenly feel very sad for that duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ad for Acme Supermarkets (where I guess Wile E. Coyote used to buy all his hunting gear) in the February 10, 1955 issue of the Washington, D.C. Evening Star hints that the ducks the company sells are treated like veal. According to the ad, &#8220;swimming (as well as flying) develops stringy muscles, and Acme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,28],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-old-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}