{"id":14771,"date":"2020-01-15T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2020-01-03T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:46:09","slug":"uk-court-rules-that-ethical-veganism-is-a-philosophical-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/uk-court-rules-that-ethical-veganism-is-a-philosophical-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"UK court rules that ethical veganism is a philosophical belief!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A judge has ruled that ethical <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/01\/02\/uk\/vegan-discrimination-case-gbr-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">veganism<\/a> qualifies as a\nphilosophical belief protected under United Kingdom law. See: <br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/03\/uk\/vegan-discrimination-intl-scli-gbr\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/03\/uk\/vegan-discrimination-intl-scli-gbr\/index.html<\/a><br>\n<br>\nFor related background in the United States, see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2001mar\/2001_mar_prison.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2001mar\/2001_mar_prison.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-the-vrg-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BFaupoUk7q\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/do-prison-inmates-have-a-right-to-vegetarian-meals\/\">DO PRISON INMATES HAVE A RIGHT TO VEGETARIAN MEALS?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;DO PRISON INMATES HAVE A RIGHT TO VEGETARIAN MEALS?&#8221; &#8212; The VRG Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/do-prison-inmates-have-a-right-to-vegetarian-meals\/embed\/#?secret=RWV5krWj6m#?secret=BFaupoUk7q\" data-secret=\"BFaupoUk7q\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that ethical veganism qualifies as a philosophical belief protected under United Kingdom law. See: https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/03\/uk\/vegan-discrimination-intl-scli-gbr\/index.html For related background in the United States, see https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2001mar\/2001_mar_prison.php<\/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-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","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=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14772,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions\/14772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}