{"id":751291,"date":"2018-02-07T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751291"},"modified":"2018-02-07T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:00:34","slug":"vegans-go-global-to-stake-their-claim-to-the-high-moral-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751291","title":{"rendered":"Vegans go global to stake their claim to the high moral ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ANDREW TATE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Vegan is not a dirty word \u2013 unless you\u2019re being harassed while eating a steak&#8230; And it\u2019s prompting debate about whether a new wave of younger activists are being too aggressive in targeting consumers and displaying public images of distressed animals. Last November, the group Anonymous for the Voiceless organised what it claimed to be the \u2018biggest global vegan outreach campaign\u2019 with its International Cube Day involving protests in 200 cities including Sydney and Melbourne. Protesters holding graphic images of factory farming believe showing the violence and gore is inevitable when fighting the meat industry&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cDisruptions are never about targeting individuals, but rather the system, and confronting a normalised practice of that system is one way to do that,\u201d says Melbourne Cow Save on its Facebook page, who The New Daily asked for comment. \u201cThis is done in places where violence is being committed and consumed, with speak outs, protesting and chanting&#8221;&#8230; \u201cWhen it comes to raising and killing animals on an industrial scale, any measure of kindness, respect or decency goes out the window,\u201d said Laura Weyman-Jones (PETA Australia&#8217;s press officer). \u201cLuckily, it\u2019s incredibly easy now to find delicious vegan meat that is not only better for animals, but better for our bodies and the environment too&#8221;.&#8217; <\/em>SOURCE&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bfCcPpVas8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDREW TATE: &#8216;Vegan is not a dirty word \u2013 unless you\u2019re being harassed while eating a steak&#8230; And it\u2019s prompting debate about whether a new wave of younger activists are being too aggressive in targeting consumers and displaying public images of distressed animals. Last November, the group Anonymous for the Voiceless organised what it claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,22],"tags":[31,35,38],"class_list":["post-751291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-morality","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751293,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751291\/revisions\/751293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}