{"id":19447,"date":"2022-06-16T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=19447"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:43:30","slug":"scientific-updates-octopuses-squid-crabs-lobsters-and-shrimp-are-sentient-beings-and-eat-your-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/16\/scientific-updates-octopuses-squid-crabs-lobsters-and-shrimp-are-sentient-beings-and-eat-your-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Updates: Octopuses, Squid, Crabs, Lobsters, and Shrimp are Sentient Beings and Eat Your Vegetables!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/main-qimg-85e17e2d2756bb32809bcbb1e66ee9d7-lq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/main-qimg-85e17e2d2756bb32809bcbb1e66ee9d7-lq-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/main-qimg-85e17e2d2756bb32809bcbb1e66ee9d7-lq-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/main-qimg-85e17e2d2756bb32809bcbb1e66ee9d7-lq.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7056552487msonormal\">Each issue of <i>Vegan Journal<\/i> includes a Scientific Update column by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD. Here we review recent scientific papers related to vegetarianism. In the latest issue we covered a paper describing the importance of getting infants and toddlers to eat a variety of vegetables. Another research paper we reviewed shared the news that in the United Kingdom \u201call cephalopod mollusks and decapod crustaceans should be regarded as sentient animals for the purposes of UK animal welfare law.\u201d Sentience is described as the capacity to have feelings including feelings of pain, harm, and\/or distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7056552487msonormal\">Read the column here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2022issue2\/2022_issue2_scientific_update.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2022issue2\/2022_issue2_scientific_update.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7056552487msonormal\">To subscribe to <i>Vegan Journal<\/i>, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each issue of Vegan Journal includes a Scientific Update column by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD. Here we review recent scientific papers related to vegetarianism. In the latest issue we covered a paper describing the importance of getting infants and toddlers to eat a variety of vegetables. Another research paper we reviewed shared the news that [&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-19447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447","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=19447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19449,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions\/19449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}