{"id":18105,"date":"2021-10-07T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=18105"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:32:27","slug":"belen-torres-vrg-2021-video-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/07\/belen-torres-vrg-2021-video-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Belen Torres &#8211; VRG 2021 Video Contest Winner"},"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\/2021\/09\/Belen-Torres-Vegetarian-Resource-Group-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Belen-Torres-Vegetarian-Resource-Group-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Belen-Torres-Vegetarian-Resource-Group.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Belen is a Vegetarian Resource Group 2021 video contest\nwinner. She said: \u201cMy reasons for including a vegetarian diet into my life, is\nto not continue involving myself with products that continuously exploit\nanimals and their rights. I also wanted to diminish my carbon footprint as much as I could, and understood that dairy and meat\nproducts contained hormones that posed multiple health risks, resulting in me\nbecoming a vegetarian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See her video here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php#belentorres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php#belentorres<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadline for the Next VRG video contest is July 15, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/videoscholarship.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/videoscholarship.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support Vegetarian Resource Group scholarships and\ninternships, donate at <a href=\"http:\/\/vrg.org\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belen is a Vegetarian Resource Group 2021 video contest winner. She said: \u201cMy reasons for including a vegetarian diet into my life, is to not continue involving myself with products that continuously exploit animals and their rights. I also wanted to diminish my carbon footprint as much as I could, and understood that dairy and [&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-18105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105","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=18105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18197,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions\/18197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}