{"id":17665,"date":"2021-07-12T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:29:40","slug":"when-it-comes-to-veganism-never-count-anyone-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/12\/when-it-comes-to-veganism-never-count-anyone-out\/","title":{"rendered":"When it comes to veganism, never count anyone out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/vrg-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/vrg-logo-1.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/vrg-logo-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Rissa Miller, Senior\nEditor <em>Vegetarian Journal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my parents&#8217; neighborhood, there is a regular\nbreakfast\/coffee for the ladies of the neighborhood. Most who attend are\nretired or over the age of 60 at least, with some women in the 30s-40s-50s\ncoming at different times. There&#8217;s always coffee and tea with dairy and\ncoconut-vegan creamer on the table, and folks take turns bringing muffins, etc.\nto share. It&#8217;s quite formal, with saucers and such.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I was surprised to discover I was not\nthe&nbsp;only vegan in the&nbsp;group! I had encountered two vegetarians in the\npast few months,&nbsp;both women in&nbsp;their 30s. But these vegan ladies were\nNEW vegans, who were looking for resources. I was pleased to hand them a few\ncopies of <em>Vegetarian&nbsp;Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;as\nwell as local vegan guides I keep in my car from the&nbsp;York&nbsp;vegan\nadvocates group in Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though I have been vegan for 26 years, it never ceases to\nsurprise me where I meet other vegans,&nbsp;and how the&nbsp;interest in\nveganism can appear out of&nbsp;nowhere, in the most unexpected of places. The\n3&nbsp;women who were new vegans were all over the age of&nbsp;70. I see in\naction how it is critical never to count anyone out. And to always keep vegan\nadvocacy materials on me! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rissa Miller, Senior Editor Vegetarian Journal In my parents&#8217; neighborhood, there is a regular breakfast\/coffee for the ladies of the neighborhood. Most who attend are retired or over the age of 60 at least, with some women in the 30s-40s-50s coming at different times. There&#8217;s always coffee and tea with dairy and coconut-vegan creamer [&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-17665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","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=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}