{"id":2154,"date":"2025-02-26T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/belgians-banned-from-drinking-fish\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:06:37","slug":"belgians-banned-from-drinking-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/belgians-banned-from-drinking-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgians banned from &#039;drinking&#039; fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-26 14:06:36<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Belgians are banned from &#8220;drinking&#8221; fish.<BR><br \/>\nThe Krakelingen festival, in the town of Geraardsbergen, saw gudgeon fish consumed from silver cups of red wine, and it dated back 600 years.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, its long run has been sent swimming following the approval of new animal welfare legislation.<BR><br \/>\nAnn Panis, a local alderman, has branded the move as a &#8220;disaster&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nShe is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;The regulation was approved without us being heard.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nNow, the local town is protesting in a bid for the newly passed legislation to be overturned.<BR><br \/>\nFernand Van Trimpont, the Mayor of Geraardsbergen, is also quoted by the publication as saying: &#8220;Flanders must take into account cultural-historical arguments.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We therefore hope that our protest will be picked up so that the regulation can be changed.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHowever, Michel Vandenbosch, the chairman of the animal rights group Gaia, said traitions are &#8220;no excuse&#8221; for animals to be subjected to suffering.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-26 14:06:36 Belgians are banned from &#8220;drinking&#8221; fish. The Krakelingen festival, in the town of Geraardsbergen, saw gudgeon fish consumed from silver cups of red wine, and it dated back&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}