{"id":755553,"date":"2018-12-13T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755553"},"modified":"2018-12-13T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:40:09","slug":"scotlands-schools-and-hospitals-could-be-taken-to-court-unless-they-provide-vegan-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755553","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s schools and hospitals could be taken to court unless they provide vegan food"},"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>The protected status of veganism means that we have a right to live in a way that avoids using and killing animals or paying someone else to do that for us and not to be discriminated against on account of our veganism.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TOM EDEN:<\/strong><em> &#8216;Vegans have warned public-sector organisations could be taken to court unless more is done to provide plant-based options. The Scottish Parliament has been petitioned to have vegan food on all public-sector menus from schools and hospitals to prisons and councils. Giving evidence in support of the petition, Barbara Bolton, a solicitor who deals with vegan law, condemned the &#8220;systemic failure&#8221; to provide for vegans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Arguing public organisations have an obligation to provide vegan options, she said: &#8220;Vegans have legal protection under human rights and equality law because the vegan philosophy passes the test of non-religious belief that is serious, cogent and worthy of respect. &#8220;The protected status of veganism means that we have a right to live in a way that avoids using and killing animals or paying someone else to do that for us and not to be discriminated against on account of our veganism.&#8221; Ms Bolton added: &#8220;Ultimately, if nothing is done in terms of the human rights and equality issues, there will be claims that will go to court&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/schools-hospitals-could-taken-court-13697464\" 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\/XFwPiy60tXU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOM EDEN: &#8216;Vegans have warned public-sector organisations could be taken to court unless more is done to provide plant-based options. The Scottish Parliament has been petitioned to have vegan food on all public-sector menus from schools and hospitals to prisons and councils. Giving evidence in support of the petition, Barbara Bolton, a solicitor who deals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,22],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-755553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-morality","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755553","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=755553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755555,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755553\/revisions\/755555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}