{"id":756507,"date":"2019-03-13T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756507"},"modified":"2019-03-17T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T14:25:27","slug":"us-army-dining-facility-now-offers-vegan-entree-at-every-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756507","title":{"rendered":"Only ONE US Army Dining Facility Offers Vegan Entr\u00e9e At Every Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MARIA CHIORANDO:<\/strong><em> &#8216;A US army dining facility has become the first of its kind to offer troops a vegan entr\u00e9e at every meal time. The Guns and Rockets Dining Facility in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, added the new options to its menu after a soldier requested more plant-based dishes&#8230; The launch of the new dishes corresponds to growing appetite for vegan-friendly food in the US, with the retail sector in seeing a surge when it comes to demand for plant-based alternatives, with leading business and food expert and Executive Director of the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) Michele Simon branding vegan food &#8216;fully mainstream&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Data from Nielson, published last year, showed the plant-based foods industry experienced dollar sales growth of 20 percent between 2017 and 2018, with sales topping $3.3 billion. Talking about the data, Simon said: &#8220;The plant-based foods industry has gone from being a relatively niche market to fully mainstream. &#8220;Plant-based meat and dairy alternatives are not just for vegetarians or vegans anymore; now even mainstream consumers are enjoying these delicious and innovative options in the market today&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantbasednews.org\/post\/us-army-dining-facility-vegan-entree-every-meal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MYGXThFrQY4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARIA CHIORANDO: &#8216;A US army dining facility has become the first of its kind to offer troops a vegan entr\u00e9e at every meal time. The Guns and Rockets Dining Facility in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, added the new options to its menu after a soldier requested more plant-based dishes&#8230; The launch of the new dishes corresponds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756508,"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-756507","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\/756507","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=756507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756572,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756507\/revisions\/756572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}