{"id":754361,"date":"2018-08-25T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T13:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754361"},"modified":"2018-08-25T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T13:57:46","slug":"how-mainstream-veganism-sent-the-livestock-industry-on-the-defensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754361","title":{"rendered":"How mainstream veganism sent the livestock industry on the defensive"},"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>We are only a few clicks away from finding out what really goes on behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses, dairy farms and egg farms.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASCALE HUGHES:<\/strong><em> &#8216;The idea of veganism as an ephemeral lifestyle trend is not one that has widespread support. A YouGov survey carried out in 2017 found that 53 per cent of respondents believe it is here to stay and only 28 per cent see it as a passing fad&#8230; According to the Vegan Society, more than half of UK adults are now adopting \u201cvegan buying behaviour\u201d, while 28 per cent now identify themselves as \u201cmeat reducers\u201d. Veganism has reached the mainstream, even if the people buying the products aren\u2019t proper vegans&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The new vegan dishes loom large on Instagram. Accounts, such as \u201cYes It\u2019s All Vegan\u201d offer a dizzying array of food that looks like the real, meaty, fishy, cheesy deal \u2013 but isn\u2019t&#8230; This is the Instagram the meat industry might have been thinking of when it described veganism as a fad. But the platform contains more than aspirational body types and vegan recipes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe have access to material we may not have come across before,\u201d says Dominika Piasecka, a spokeswoman for The Vegan Society. \u201cWe are only a few clicks away from finding out what really goes on behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses, dairy farms and egg farms. Social media has helped to expose the reality of the animal farming industries&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/long-reads\/how-mainstream-veganism-sent-the-livestock-industry-on-the-defensive\/\" 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\/1lI9AwxKfTY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASCALE HUGHES: &#8216;The idea of veganism as an ephemeral lifestyle trend is not one that has widespread support. A YouGov survey carried out in 2017 found that 53 per cent of respondents believe it is here to stay and only 28 per cent see it as a passing fad&#8230; According to the Vegan Society, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,38],"class_list":["post-754361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-farming","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754361","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=754361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754363,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754361\/revisions\/754363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}