{"id":755139,"date":"2018-10-31T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755139"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:39:02","slug":"canadian-citizens-form-vegan-option-canada-lobby-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755139","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Citizens Form \u201cVegan Option Canada\u201d Lobby Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NICOLE AXWORTHY:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A group of Canadian citizens recently formed Vegan Option Canada (VOC), a lobby group with the mission of amending laws to mandate federal public institutions, such as hospitals, schools, and senior centers, to provide vegan meal options&#8230; \u201cOur mission is to bring awareness to the fact that access to plant-based meals is a human right,\u201d VOC public relations representative Sorin Ionescu told VegNews. \u201cWhen we are in a public institution\u2014particularly when it is mandatory and not a matter of choice \u2014 our personal dietary choices need to be respected, especially when they are based on an ethical choice to reduce suffering.\u201d The creation of VOC was inspired by the Portuguese Vegetarian Association, whose efforts led to the passing of similar legislation in Portugal in 2017&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2018\/10\/canadian-citizens-form-vegan-option-canada-lobby-group\" 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\/ie6Zs7Ft8OA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICOLE AXWORTHY: &#8216;A group of Canadian citizens recently formed Vegan Option Canada (VOC), a lobby group with the mission of amending laws to mandate federal public institutions, such as hospitals, schools, and senior centers, to provide vegan meal options&#8230; \u201cOur mission is to bring awareness to the fact that access to plant-based meals is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-755139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755139","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=755139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755141,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755139\/revisions\/755141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}