{"id":753921,"date":"2018-07-19T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753921"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:11:08","slug":"global-office-sharing-company-goes-meat-free-to-leave-a-better-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753921","title":{"rendered":"Global office-sharing company goes meat-free \u2018to leave a better world\u2019"},"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>New research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact \u2014 even more than switching to a hybrid car.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>THOMSON REUTERS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Global office-sharing company WeWork, which operates in 22 countries, is going meat-free and will ban staff from expensing meals containing meat in a bid to \u201cleave a better world for future generations\u201d&#8230; It told its 6,000 staff this month that it would no longer serve meat at company events or reimburse expense claims for meat&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cNew research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact \u2014 even more than switching to a hybrid car,\u201d co-founder Miguel McKelvey said in a memo. Livestock farming is a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions, consumes a tenth of the world\u2019s fresh water and causes large-scale deforestation&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Vegetarian Society in Britain urged other companies to follow WeWork\u2019s example&#8230; Experts said many companies had introduced meat-free Mondays or were looking at changing their canteens to help people choose more sustainable food&#8230; They said interest was particularly high in the United States, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Israel&#8217;.<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eco-business.com\/news\/wework-goes-meat-free-to-leave-a-better-world\/\" 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\/hOij8miD6T8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMSON REUTERS: &#8216;Global office-sharing company WeWork, which operates in 22 countries, is going meat-free and will ban staff from expensing meals containing meat in a bid to \u201cleave a better world for future generations\u201d&#8230; It told its 6,000 staff this month that it would no longer serve meat at company events or reimburse expense claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-753921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753921","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=753921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753932,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753921\/revisions\/753932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}