{"id":752035,"date":"2018-03-28T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=752035"},"modified":"2018-03-28T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:35:18","slug":"veganism-is-growing-in-japan-but-followers-say-it-isnt-always-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=752035","title":{"rendered":"Veganism Is Growing in Japan, But Followers Say It Isn&#8217;t Always Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RACHEL KRANTZ:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;For a culture known for its precision, reliable statistics on the number of vegetarians in Japan are surprisingly hard to come by. According to a 2014 survey (of only 1,188 people), 4.7 percent of the Japanese population are vegetarian or vegan&#8230; While the number of vegan dining options is rising in Japan, so is the country\u2019s meat intake, which set new records in 2016, increasing by 3.4 percent\u2014the tenth consecutive year of gains. Interestingly, before the 18th century, the country was largely vegetarian; both the Buddhist and Shinto religions omitted meat and dairy for ethical reasons&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Meanwhile, the animal rights movement in the country\u2014still small and decentralized\u2014appears to be growing as well. Animal Rights Center Japan and Animal Advocacy Japan work on issues similar to those of US-based groups, and are currently pressuring large food corporations to source eggs that don\u2019t come from caged hens, while Vege Project Japan has successfully established vegan menus at several university campuses and restaurants&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In many ways, Japan\u2019s vegan and animal advocacy communities appear to be where those in the US were 20 years ago\u2014full of grassroots energy and excitement, but still small and lacking in political and financial capital&#8230; Morally speaking, Japanese vegans and vegetarians tell me that many of their peers agree with the principle behind vegetarianism; they view adherence to it as a \u201cnoble action,\u201d but far fewer are interested in being vegetarians themselves&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/munchies.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qvx8yx\/how-to-be-vegan-vegetarian-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Vle5OwtdO0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RACHEL KRANTZ: &#8216;For a culture known for its precision, reliable statistics on the number of vegetarians in Japan are surprisingly hard to come by. According to a 2014 survey (of only 1,188 people), 4.7 percent of the Japanese population are vegetarian or vegan&#8230; While the number of vegan dining options is rising in Japan, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-752035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752035","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=752035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752037,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752035\/revisions\/752037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}