{"id":751988,"date":"2018-03-26T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751988"},"modified":"2018-03-26T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:36:12","slug":"meet-the-21-year-old-entrepreneur-and-animal-rights-activist-bringing-vegan-milk-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751988","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 21-Year-Old Entrepreneur and Animal Rights Activist Bringing Vegan Milk to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KATRINA FOX:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Eighteen months ago Abhay Rangan, a 21-year-old engineering student, was traveling 500km every week on his moped throughout Bangalore in southern India with a backpack full of plant-based milks he and his mother had made in their home kitchen. Not only was this delivery method inefficient, the products weren\u2019t shelf-stable, resulting in many of them spoiling before reaching their destination. \u201cIt was a difficult job,\u201d Rangan admits. \u201cWe manufactured our first few thousand liters using our blenders, pots and pans&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This was the scrappy beginning of Veganarke, the company Rangan founded after starting and running a nonprofit animal rights organization for two years when he was just 16. \u201cWe were a bunch of teenagers in different Indian cities doing campaigns for veganism on the streets,\u201d he explains. \u201cA common argument I came across was that the vegan alternatives were expensive. I looked around and there were very few exclusively vegan businesses that were accessible to me on a student budget. Veganarke was born out of a desire to make vegan products affordable and accessible to everyone&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/katrinafox\/2018\/03\/22\/meet-the-21-year-old-entrepreneur-and-animal-rights-activist-bringing-vegan-milk-to-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IaI6OYYYLfE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATRINA FOX: &#8216;Eighteen months ago Abhay Rangan, a 21-year-old engineering student, was traveling 500km every week on his moped throughout Bangalore in southern India with a backpack full of plant-based milks he and his mother had made in their home kitchen. Not only was this delivery method inefficient, the products weren\u2019t shelf-stable, resulting in many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-751988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-rights","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751988","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=751988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751991,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751988\/revisions\/751991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}