{"id":9432,"date":"2010-08-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/19\/at-vegans-weddings-beef-or-tofu\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T12:00:00","slug":"at-vegans-weddings-beef-or-tofu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/19\/at-vegans-weddings-beef-or-tofu\/","title":{"rendered":"At Vegans&#8217; Weddings, Beef or Tofu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/08\/fashion\/08vegan.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 6, 2010: Weddings are all about compromise. City or country? June or November? My religion or yours? For Chelsea Clinton, a vegetarian, it was the decision to serve meat to the guests at her July 31 wedding. By choosing to have meat, she re-ignited a sensitive wedding-season debate among ethical eaters and the people who love them: To serve, or not to serve? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If your family loves you and wants you to have that special day, I think they can go one meal and not eat meat,&#8221; said Cecilia Kinzie, a vegan and food consultant in Petaluma, Calif., who served no meat at her 2009 wedding. &#8220;If you go to an Indian wedding, you don&#8217;t expect Italian food,&#8221; added Ms. Kinzie, &#8220;So why should this be any different?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, many vegetarians have served meat at their weddings, out of deference to their guests, an aversion to endless cracks about &#8220;rabbit food,&#8221; or simply because there weren&#8217;t a lot of caterers specializing in vegetarian food who could handle a 200-person affair, particularly outside New York or California. (Today many mainstream caterers can handle vegetarian weddings, but you can expect to pay extra for the special treatment.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This generation is much more health conscious,&#8221; said Bryan Rafanelli, the Boston wedding planner who worked with Ms. Clinton, &#8220;and there are just so many more brides who are vegetarian or vegans or have allergies or just eat healthier.&#8221; At Ms. Clinton&#8217;s wedding, he said, a color-coded map indicated each guest&#8217;s dietary restrictions, ensuring that no one was served something that he or she couldn&#8217;t (or wouldn&#8217;t) eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 6, 2010: Weddings are all about compromise. City or country? June or November?,&#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-9432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432","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=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}