{"id":11522,"date":"2017-10-30T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2017-10-13T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:21:08","slug":"report-on-new-jersey-vegfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/report-on-new-jersey-vegfest\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT ON NEW JERSEY VEGFEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NJ-VegFest-2017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NJ-VegFest-2017.jpg\" alt=\"NJ VegFest 2017\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NJ-VegFest-2017.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NJ-VegFest-2017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NJ-VegFest-2017-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Heather Francis, Emily Klesitz, Rebecca Lordon, and Tina Urban, who volunteered at The Vegetarian Resource Group booth at New Jersey VegFest. Heather reported: A lot of the people who stopped by were individuals who were transitioning and needed advice. Other individuals were teachers who wanted resources\/were looking for resources. The Vegetarian Resource Group My Vegan Plate handout was the most popular and many people seemed to enjoy it. A lot of people loved that we had materials available. One guy in particular liked us because we weren&#8217;t a business trying to make a profit, rather handing out free resources to those who wanted information. There were questions about the Vegan Pregnancy book by our Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, RD.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to volunteer at VRG booths, email <a href=\"mailto:vrg@vrg.org\">vrg@vrg.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>To support VRG outreach, join at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/cabdacae.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/cabdacae.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Heather Francis, Emily Klesitz, Rebecca Lordon, and Tina Urban, who volunteered at The Vegetarian Resource Group booth at New Jersey VegFest. Heather reported: A lot of the people who stopped by were individuals who were transitioning and needed advice. Other individuals were teachers who wanted resources\/were looking for resources. The Vegetarian Resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}