{"id":754538,"date":"2018-09-09T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754538"},"modified":"2018-09-09T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T13:09:42","slug":"heres-why-israel-is-the-vegan-capital-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754538","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why Israel Is the Vegan Capital of the World"},"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>Many feel eating vegan is the new kashrut (Jewish dietary law) for our age. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that Israel has more vegans per capita than any other nation.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ZACHARY TOLIVER:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>Going vegan and saving animals benefits every culture and creed. But it seems as though Israel\u2014and the Jewish community in general\u2014is leading the vegan revolution&#8230; Judaism has a long, proud tradition of compassion for animals. A vegan lifestyle was first prescribed in the Garden of Eden (in Genesis 1:28-29)&#8230; Many feel that eating vegan is the new kashrut (Jewish dietary law) for our age. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that Israel has more vegans per capita than any other nation&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Israel has long banned the sale of personal-care and household products that were tested on animals. It was the first country to ban horse- and donkey-drawn carts and carriages used for work purposes&#8230;The Middle Eastern nation is also known for having some of the largest animal rights marches and rallies on Earth, and it hosts numerous animal-liberating organizations. And an Israeli startup launched the first-ever cruelty-free vegan cryptocurrency, suitably named VeganCoin&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/israel-vegan-capital\/\" 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\/XV39TPrLkc8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZACHARY TOLIVER: &#8216;Going vegan and saving animals benefits every culture and creed. But it seems as though Israel\u2014and the Jewish community in general\u2014is leading the vegan revolution&#8230; Judaism has a long, proud tradition of compassion for animals. A vegan lifestyle was first prescribed in the Garden of Eden (in Genesis 1:28-29)&#8230; Many feel that eating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,22,23],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-754538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-morality","category-rights","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754538","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=754538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754540,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754538\/revisions\/754540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}