{"id":10412,"date":"2011-08-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/08\/28\/vegetarian-lawyer-sues-restaurant-over-beans-made-with-pork\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:00:00","slug":"vegetarian-lawyer-sues-restaurant-over-beans-made-with-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/08\/28\/vegetarian-lawyer-sues-restaurant-over-beans-made-with-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian Lawyer Sues Restaurant Over Beans Made With Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com\/Legal\/News\/2011\/08_-_August\/Lawyer_sues_Chipotle_over_beans_made_with_pork\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 22, 2011: A vegetarian lawyer has sued Chipotle Mexican Grill for selling a bean dish that contains pork. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses the national fast food chain of duping the public into believing its pinto beans are vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff Kevin Shenkman &#8220;reasonably assumed Defendant&#8217;s &#8216;Pinto Beans&#8217; were not prepared with and did not contain bacon and\/or pork since there were no representations made to the contrary,&#8221; the complaint said. In-store menus made no mention of meat in the beans. And when Shenkman asked, Chipotle servers told him that the beans did not contain bacon or pork, the suit said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout our 18-year history, our pinto beans have always been made with bacon, and we have not described them as being vegetarian,&#8221; said Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold. He said a better option for vegetarian customers was the black beans, which are labeled as vegetarian on the restaurant&#8217;s menus and website. To avoid any confusion, the company plans to roll out new menu boards that highlight the use of bacon in the pinto beans, Arnold said.<\/p>\n<p>Shenkman, who is Jewish and a vegetarian, sued on behalf of a class of California customers who, like him, cannot eat pork because of &#8220;ethical, religious, moral, cultural, philosophical or health-related&#8221; concerns, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>This lawsuit is similar to the one against McDonald&#8217;s for its &#8220;natural flavored&#8221; fries &#8212; the additive is actually bovine meat. The fast-food chain was sued by a Hindu and paid $10 million to several Hindu institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 22, 2011: A vegetarian lawyer has sued Chipotle Mexican Grill for selling a bean,&#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-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","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=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}