{"id":2,"date":"2012-03-30T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-04-02T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:11:00","slug":"main","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-127\" title=\"intro\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/files\/2012\/03\/intro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/files\/2012\/03\/intro.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/files\/2012\/03\/intro-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>When I was thinking about what topic I wanted to choose for my APBI 315 term project, I wanted to choose an animal that is important to me. I&#8217;m a knitter and I try to be conscious about the types of fibre that I use and the source of that fibre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the finest types of wool that you can find in yarn is Merino wool, and that is why I decided to focus the scope of my project on the Merino breed. I wanted to take a look at the animal welfare issues in the wool industry and see if the current practices were justified in having real benefits towards the animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The primary focus was on the Australian wool industry as they are the largest wool producer in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this website, I will be discussing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why we use the Merino and the development of the breed<\/li>\n<li>Regulations<\/li>\n<li>PETA vs. Wool Producers<\/li>\n<li>Animal welfare issues (and the alternative methods)<\/li>\n<li>My opinion on the Australia wool industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Michelle Wong<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><sub>Header image from Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flissphil\/\">PhillipC<\/a>.<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was thinking about what topic I wanted to choose for my APBI 315 term project, I wanted to choose an animal that is important to me. I&#8217;m a knitter and I try to be conscious about the types &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11683,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apbi315sheep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}