{"id":2412,"date":"2008-02-05T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/02\/05\/is-animal-friendly-purchasing-the-future\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:56:44","slug":"is-animal-friendly-purchasing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-animal-friendly-purchasing-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Animal-Friendly Purchasing The Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was quite a diversity of response to my October 2007 PurchTips article \u201cPurchasing, Social Responsibility &amp; Animals\u201d and the accompanying blog posts (here and here). Some agreed that animal-friendly purchasing was a big part of the future of corporate social responsibility. 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