{"id":754572,"date":"2018-09-11T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754572"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:24:36","slug":"20-percent-of-mexicans-now-identify-as-vegan-or-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754572","title":{"rendered":"20 Percent of Mexicans Now Identify as Vegan or Vegetarian"},"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>This data shows that in the country, veganism is growing at an accelerated rate, especially among the youngest population.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YSS GUERRERO:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;According to data collected in the Gourmet Show (one of Mexico\u2019s major food festivals), 20 percent of Mexicans have reduced or completely eliminated meat consumption or animal-derived foods and have joined the vegetarian or vegan eating regime. This data shows that in the country, veganism is growing at an accelerated rate, especially among the youngest population.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Alfredo Cordero, Creative Director of Tradex, said that 20 percent of Mexicans already identify themselves as vegetarian or vegans. Their diets are made of vegetables, fruits, seeds, and cereals; they also have a very strong belief regarding self-care, environmentalism, reject the consumption of any product of animal origin and do not accept any mistreatment or exploitation of animals&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>For Maria Fernanda Villalobos Vegan Inc. manager, the vegan trend is turning into a full-on movement and 60 to 70 percent of those who practice it are women who are looking for healthier eating habits and better nutrition&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/vivaglammagazine.com\/20-percent-of-mexicans-now-identify-as-vegan-or-vegetarians\/\" 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\/52ukr7_djBw?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YSS GUERRERO: &#8216;According to data collected in the Gourmet Show (one of Mexico\u2019s major food festivals), 20 percent of Mexicans have reduced or completely eliminated meat consumption or animal-derived foods and have joined the vegetarian or vegan eating regime. This data shows that in the country, veganism is growing at an accelerated rate, especially among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-754572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754572","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=754572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754574,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754572\/revisions\/754574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}