{"id":8487,"date":"2009-11-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/25\/vegetarians-cautioned-beware-of-false-claims\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:00:00","slug":"vegetarians-cautioned-beware-of-false-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/25\/vegetarians-cautioned-beware-of-false-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians Cautioned: Beware of False Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sundaytimes\/article203094.ece\">www.timeslive.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOUTH AFRICA, November 22, 2009: Last week the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that Wimpy&#8217;s claim that the burger was 100% vegetarian was untrue. Wimpy is the brand name of a chain of fast-food hamburger restaurants based in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n<p>The found followed a complaint by a consumer, Heather Pansegrouw, who said the chain&#8217;s claim was false, as it fried onions on the same grill as the meat. The ASA ruled that Wimpy should alter its recipe so that the burger was 100% vegetarian. In its response, Wimpy said that after the complaint, it had removed the vegetarian burger, as well as the 100% vegetarian logo, from its menu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the consumer must be fully aware. If it says that it is vegetarian, then it should be prepared in a vegetarian manner,&#8221; said Kovilan Ramsamy of the Advertising Standards Authority. He called on fast-food outlets to prepare their vegetarian dishes separately and independent of meat dishes, adding it was important to some Hindus. &#8220;The Jewish community eats only kosher meals and will go to those restaurants which prepare only kosher dishes. Restaurants are very particular in presenting a meal to a Jewish patron. The Hindu community must be given the same respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.timeslive.co.za SOUTH AFRICA, November 22, 2009: Last week the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that Wimpy&#8217;s claim that the,&#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-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","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=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}