{"id":753278,"date":"2018-05-17T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753278"},"modified":"2018-05-17T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T11:43:09","slug":"why-veganism-is-easier-than-you-think-and-how-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753278","title":{"rendered":"Why veganism is easier than you think and how to get started"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>f you\u2019re opposed to animal cruelty, you\u2019re already 90 per cent vegan. Your diet is just the last 10 per cent.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>OLIVIA PETTER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Veganism doesn\u2019t always get the best PR&#8230; Debunking the myth that today\u2019s vegans are all lithe-limbed bloggers with perfect skin and flowery aesthetics are brothers Matt and Phil Letten&#8230; The LA-based duo stopped eating animal products in their early 20s &#8211; they are both now in their early 30s &#8211; after uncovering some uncomfortable truths about the ethics involved in meat and dairy production&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>While there are endless reasons why someone would want to go vegan, for the Letten brothers, the primary motivation was animal welfare&#8230; \u201cIf you\u2019re opposed to animal cruelty, you\u2019re already 90 per cent vegan. Your diet is just the last 10 per cent&#8221;, they explained&#8230; \u201cIt\u2019s not about perfection,\u201d they said. \u201cThere is no way to be 100 per cent vegan in today\u2019s world. \u201cIf you focus on being 100 per cent vegan, you\u2019ll inevitably get bogged down in the minutiae. \u201cAllow yourself to make mistakes. Failure is part of the process&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/food-and-drink\/veganism-how-easy-become-vodka-is-vegan-brothers-matt-phil-letten-a8341836.html\" 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\/uyltcuvtyuc?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLIVIA PETTER: &#8216;Veganism doesn\u2019t always get the best PR&#8230; Debunking the myth that today\u2019s vegans are all lithe-limbed bloggers with perfect skin and flowery aesthetics are brothers Matt and Phil Letten&#8230; The LA-based duo stopped eating animal products in their early 20s &#8211; they are both now in their early 30s &#8211; after uncovering some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-753278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-health","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753278","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=753278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753280,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753278\/revisions\/753280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}