{"id":9494,"date":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/05\/weekday-vegetarian-a-place-to-start\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","slug":"weekday-vegetarian-a-place-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/05\/weekday-vegetarian-a-place-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekday Vegetarian, A Place to Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/08\/weekday-vegetarian-gets-nod-from-time.php\">www.treehugger.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, August 16, 23010: Graham Hill&#8217;s (founder of treehugger.com) Weekday Vegetarian concept is controversial among some, who don&#8217;t think people should eat meat at all. But Time Magazine says that only 2.5% of Americans are strict vegetarians or vegans, and Graham&#8217;s idea is that any cutback in meat consumption is good for the environment. According to Vegetarian Times, a full 10% of Americans follow a &#8220;vegetarian-inclined&#8221; diet.<\/p>\n<p>A surprising takeaway from the Time article is who agrees that the Weekday Vegetarian is a good thing. Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Way We Eat- Why Our Food Choices Matter, tells TIME that &#8220;People should go further, but it&#8217;s progress in the right direction.&#8221; And a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association noted that &#8220;A partial-vegetarian plan is a little more user-friendly&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the surprise was from a group normally considered strident: PETA. &#8220;Absolute purists should be living in a cave,&#8221; says Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). &#8220;Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can&#8217;t take the position that it&#8217;s all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.treehugger.com UNITED STATES, August 16, 23010: Graham Hill&#8217;s (founder of treehugger.com) Weekday Vegetarian concept is controversial among some, who,&#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-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","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=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}