{"id":29,"date":"2009-12-01T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-12-01T21:41:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:41:21","slug":"seal-culling-during-mating-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/seal-culling-during-mating-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal Culling During Mating Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Wednesday, 2nd December, the Marine (Scotland) Bill will be considered by the Scottish Parliament\u2019s Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Look Out for Seals campaign has called for a ban on shooting seals during their breeding seasons. As it stands the Bill might allow this killing. They are working to get the Committee to amend the Bill to prohibit the killing of seals during their breeding seasons.<\/p>\n<p>On 29th October the Scottish Parliament held its first full debate on the Marine (Scotland) Bill. Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur told Parliament: <strong>&#8220;In the sensitive issue of seal protection, I congratulate Advocates for Animals on the way in which they have made their case&#8221;.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n<p>I have signed up to support better protection for Scotland&#8217;s seals in the Marine Bill.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/8mhADR\" title=\"Look Out for Seals Campaign\" alt=\"Look Out for Seals Campaign\">Click here to find out more and sign up yourself at the Look Our for Seals website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Democrat PPC for Angus, Sanjay Samani supports campaign for seal culling during mating season to be prohibited<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[201,21,20,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VHxS-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}