{"id":10206,"date":"2011-06-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/12\/then-senator-barack-obama-about-a-change-in-the-omnivore-diet\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T12:00:00","slug":"then-senator-barack-obama-about-a-change-in-the-omnivore-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/12\/then-senator-barack-obama-about-a-change-in-the-omnivore-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Then-Senator Barack Obama About a Change in the Omnivore Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rt56ER4TSqc&#038;feature=related&#038;hd=1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S., June 11, 2011 (YouTube): In a 2008 video, Senator Barack Obama responds to a question from vegan, Nikki Benoit, during a public meeting at Gibbs High School, Saint Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The question was &#8220;There&#8217;s 10 billion land animals that we are funneling our precious water and grain through when 70 per cent of all of our grain could help feed the world&#8217;s hungry. So, as the next leader of the most amazing nation in the world, how can we set the example on the more nutritional, plant-based diet that&#8217;s more eco-friendly and sustainable, that can maintain our water resources and all of our grain.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Obamas response: &#8220;As countries like China and India become wealthier, they start changing their food habits; they start eating more meat, more animals. And what happens then is because it takes more grain to produce a pound of beef than if they were just eating the grain, what ends up happening is that it puts huge pressure on food supplies. Americans would actually benefit from a change in diet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>View video at source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source U.S., June 11, 2011 (YouTube): In a 2008 video, Senator Barack Obama responds to a question from vegan, Nikki,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}