{"id":755145,"date":"2018-11-01T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755145"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:45:26","slug":"british-food-magazine-editor-proposes-articles-on-killing-vegans-one-by-one-after-journalist-pitches-plant-based-recipe-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755145","title":{"rendered":"British food magazine editor proposes articles on &#8216;killing vegans one by one&#8217; after journalist pitches plant-based recipe ideas"},"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>Ms. Nelson, whose work has been published by HuffPost, Salon and Food Republic, had suggested a regular series on vegan cooking, featuring recipes, commentary and news.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHRIS BAYNES:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The editor of Waitrose Food magazine &#8220;joked&#8221; about \u201ckilling vegans one by one\u201d after a freelance writer pitched an idea about plant-based recipes. William Sitwell, who also appears as a critic on the BBC programme MasterChef, suggested journalist Selene Nelson pen a series of articles about force-feeding meat to vegans, whom he accused of \u201chypocrisy\u201d. Ms Nelson said she had \u201cnever seen anything like it\u201d. Waitrose admitted Mr Sitwell had \u201cgone too far\u201d. Ms Nelson, whose work has been published by HuffPost, Salon and Food Republic, had suggested a regular series on vegan cooking, featuring recipes, commentary and news.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In an emailed respond to her pitch last week, the magazine editor wrote: \u201cHi Selene. Thanks for this. How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat? Make them eat steak and drink red wine?\u201d Ms Nelson replied: \u201cI\u2019m not quite sure what you mean by \u2018exposing their hypocrisy\u2019, but I\u2019m certainly interested in exploring why just the mention of veganism seems to make some people so hostile. It sounds like you have some opinions on this?\u201d&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Ms Nelson, who has been vegan for just over a year, said she \u201cwasn\u2019t telling [Mr Sitwell] to go vegan, or not eat meat, or that it\u2019s bad to&#8230; I was just suggesting including some more plant-based recipes in the magazine,\u201d she said&#8230; A spokesman for Waitrose said: \u201cEven though this was a private email, William\u2019s gone too far and his words are extremely inappropriate, insensitive and absolutely do not represent our views.\u201d The upmarket supermarket launched a new vegan range earlier this month&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/waitrose-food-editor-killing-vegans-email-william-sitwell-masterchef-selene-nelson-a8608216.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRIS BAYNES: &#8216;The editor of Waitrose Food magazine &#8220;joked&#8221; about \u201ckilling vegans one by one\u201d after a freelance writer pitched an idea about plant-based recipes. William Sitwell, who also appears as a critic on the BBC programme MasterChef, suggested journalist Selene Nelson pen a series of articles about force-feeding meat to vegans, whom he accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755147,"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-755145","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\/755145","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=755145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755148,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755145\/revisions\/755148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}