{"id":19147,"date":"2022-12-21T03:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=19147"},"modified":"2022-12-21T03:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:45:22","slug":"the-meat-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2022\/12\/21\/the-meat-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meat Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, December 3, 2022 (Hinduism Today): Two good friends take a weekend outing through idyllic countryside, driving slowly by green pastures with cows quietly grazing, they gaze endearingly as one coos with a jealous tinge, \u201cI love how those cows are sooo peaceful and content.\u201d Returning to town around midday they nonchalantly waltz into a family restaurant to enjoy big, juicy hamburgers.<br><br>The above phenomenon has been dubbed the Meat Paradox\u2013-being fond of animals while regularly consuming their flesh. Elisa Aaltolao, tells us, \u201cResearch on it posits that it is caused and maintained particularly by six factors: Cognitive dissonance, dissociation, strategic ignorance, hedonism, custom and marginalization of empathy.\u201d <br><br>More of this insightful article at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/food-and-vegetarianism\/the-meat-paradox\/\n\">https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/food-and-vegetarianism\/the-meat-paradox\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED KINGDOM, December 3, 2022 (Hinduism Today): Two good friends take a weekend outing through idyllic countryside, driving slowly by,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19200,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions\/19200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}