{"id":16244,"date":"2020-10-14T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:14:27","slug":"2020-vrg-video-contest-winner-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/2020-vrg-video-contest-winner-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 VRG VIDEO CONTEST WINNER: CHOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ishva-Mehta-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ishva-Mehta-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ishva-Mehta.png 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Ishva Mehta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ishva is a winner of The Vegetarian Resource Group video\ncontest. Ishva stated: I have been vegetarian my entire life. Hence, meat\nconsumption has always been foreign and baffling to me. However, only recently,\nI ventured into veganism &amp; plant-based living for moral reasons, and I already know that I am not turning back. Leaving dairy was\ndifficult, but it is worth it. Now, not only do I notice a difference in my\nskin and overall health, but I also feel a sense of relief because I no more\nfeel guilty when looking down at my plate. In my poem, &#8220;CHOICE,&#8221; I\ntry to explain the wrongfulness in animal-product consumption\nthat I experienced consuming dairy, ultimately striving to inspire masses to\nmake the right choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see her video, go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ishva Mehta Ishva is a winner of The Vegetarian Resource Group video contest. Ishva stated: I have been vegetarian my entire life. Hence, meat consumption has always been foreign and baffling to me. However, only recently, I ventured into veganism &amp; plant-based living for moral reasons, and I already know that I am not [&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-16244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244","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=16244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16246,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}