{"id":10522,"date":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/06\/responding-to-aggressive-carnivores\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","slug":"responding-to-aggressive-carnivores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/06\/responding-to-aggressive-carnivores\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding To Aggressive Carnivores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/news\/david_sirota\/2011\/08\/24\/vegetarian_carnivore_conversation\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 24, 2011 (Salon.com, by David Sirota): Food has become a political issue in America, and some carnivores have become increasingly aggressive toward anyone or any fact that suggests they reconsider their culinary habit. Some will even aggressively challenge a person who quietly declines to eat meat.<\/p>\n<p>The author, raised in a meat-eating family but vegetarian for over a decade, offers pointers for both vegetarians and those who are considering vegetarianism&#8211;a brief primer on what kind of responses you may face when you are forced to publicly explain your personal dietary decision, and what succinct, fact-based responses are most appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Many carnivores believe their diet is a personal choice, not anyone else&#8217;s business. But when human diet threatens our collective air, water and ecosystem, as meat eating disproportionately does, it becomes everyone&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>(Great responses. Click on Source.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source August 24, 2011 (Salon.com, by David Sirota): Food has become a political issue in America, and some carnivores have,&#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-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","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=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}