{"id":1916,"date":"2016-05-30T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:15:14","slug":"meat-eaters-vegans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/05\/meat-eaters-vegans\/","title":{"rendered":"If meat eaters acted like vegans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/05\/30\/meat-eaters-vegans\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/7347-presscdn-0-17.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2015\/07\/JP-Sears.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know <strong>JP Sears<\/strong> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/2016\/04\/29\/curious-case-jp-sears\/\">woo peddler<\/a> but some times he has some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/07\/08\/ultra-spiritual\/\">things worth hearing out<\/a><\/strong> (he&#8217;s like <strong>Bill Maher<\/strong> in that sense).<\/p>\n<p>For instance, two weeks ago he posted this video about of how ridiculous it would seem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8\">if meat eaters acted like vegans<\/a> \u2014 it&#8217;s hilarious:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans - Ultra Spiritual Life episode 35\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0O_VYcsIk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can relate to such experiences. <\/p>\n<p>As per usual, choosing a veg diet is as respectable as choosing an omnivorous one, and <strong>any properly fed and informed person should decide which one they prefer, there\u2019s no right or wrong answer<\/strong> \u2014 but what rubs me the wrong way is the self-righteousness some people display because of their diet.<\/p>\n<p>(via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/29\/links-308\/\">Maggie McNeill<\/a><\/strong>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video JP Sears shows how ridiculous it would seem if meat eaters acted the way vegans do when they think theirs is a morally superior diet \u2014 it&#8217;s hilarious:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,291],"tags":[112,376,349],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-food","tag-jp-sears","tag-veg-veganism-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}