{"id":1980,"date":"2002-05-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/14\/2002-05-14-seattle-lawsuit-claims-pizza-hut-s-veggie-lover-s-not-veggie\/"},"modified":"2002-05-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-14T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-14-seattle-lawsuit-claims-pizza-hut-s-veggie-lover-s-not-veggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/14\/2002-05-14-seattle-lawsuit-claims-pizza-hut-s-veggie-lover-s-not-veggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Lawsuit Claims Pizza Hut&#8217;s &#8220;Veggie Lover&#8217;s&#8221; Not Veggie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/68809_pizza02.shtml\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, May 2, 2002: The Seattle lawyer who successfully forced McDonald&#8217;s to publicly admit its use of beef extract in its supposedly vegetarian french fries now has set his sights on another popular fast-food chain: Pizza Hut. The proposed class-action suit, filed by attorney Harish Bharti on behalf of 15 million vegetarians and 1 million Hindus throughout the country, claims that Pizza Hut has used beef products in its &#8220;Veggie Lover&#8217;s&#8221; pizza, but has been falsely promoting otherwise. &#8220;Defendants intentionally market their pizza to the vegetarian community,&#8221; according to the complaint, &#8220;knowing full well that the foods are not vegetarian.&#8221; &#8220;While they claim it&#8217;s a vegetarian product, they have a beef product in their cheese,&#8221; Bharti said. The practice, he said, is both deceptive and harmful to vegetarians and fellow Hindus who never knowingly eat beef. Pizza Hut doesn&#8217;t identify the amount of beef used in its ingredient list, the suit contends, because it is considered to be the &#8220;secret ingredient&#8221; that is the source of the flavor of its pies. Pizza Hut denied the charge yesterday. &#8220;We do not have any beef product in our pizzas,&#8221; said Patty Sullivan, spokeswoman for Dallas-based Pizza Hut.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, May 2, 2002: The Seattle lawyer who successfully forced McDonald&#8217;s to publicly admit its use,&#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-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}