{"id":754118,"date":"2018-08-03T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754118"},"modified":"2018-08-03T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:56:21","slug":"the-vegan-men-who-are-becoming-the-voices-of-the-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754118","title":{"rendered":"The Vegan Men Who Are Becoming the Voices of the Movement"},"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>A few years ago, just being male and vegan warranted attention for going against the grain, mainly due to an archaic societal perception that 'real men eat meat'.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SASCHA CAMILLI:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A frequently asked question in the world of veganism is: \u201cwhy are there so few vegan men?\u201d And it\u2019s a legitimate question: the Vegan Society\u2019s 2016 survey showed that only 37% of the UK\u2019s vegans were men. Despite the fact that the term \u201cvegan\u201d was coined by a man \u2013 the Vegan Society\u2019s Donald Watson in 1941, vegetarianism and veganism have often been seen as women\u2019s pursuits&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Many long-time vegans credit another man, Peter Singer, and his book Animal Liberation, for their vegan awakening&#8230; Admittedly, a few years ago, just being male and openly vegan warranted attention for going against the grain, mainly due to an archaic societal perception that \u201creal men eat meat\u201d, rooted in the outdated notion that you need meat to be strong&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>But this has changed, and it continues to change. Recently, the vegan movement has seen more and more male voices raised and heard&#8230; By spreading the message far and wide on social media, giving speeches at events and participating in eye-catching protest, these men have taken vegan advocacy to a new level: they\u2019re making compassion cool, not only for the healthy crowd, but for regular, football-watching, video-games-playing, previously-steak-eating men. With their informed and inspiring ways, these men may just be the new voices of the vegan movement&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vildamagazine.com\/2018\/07\/vegan-men\/\" 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\/LM0Hp54hdRE?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASCHA CAMILLI: &#8216;A frequently asked question in the world of veganism is: \u201cwhy are there so few vegan men?\u201d And it\u2019s a legitimate question: the Vegan Society\u2019s 2016 survey showed that only 37% of the UK\u2019s vegans were men. Despite the fact that the term \u201cvegan\u201d was coined by a man \u2013 the Vegan Society\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-754118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754118","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=754118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754120,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754118\/revisions\/754120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}