{"id":20067,"date":"2022-10-07T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=20067"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:04:32","slug":"vrg-video-contest-winner-brocco-lee-the-vegetarian-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/vrg-video-contest-winner-brocco-lee-the-vegetarian-superhero\/","title":{"rendered":"VRG VIDEO CONTEST WINNER \u2013 Brocco Lee: The Vegetarian Superhero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Tithi-Mehta-Vegetarian-Videos-Vegetarian-Resource-Group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Tithi-Mehta-Vegetarian-Videos-Vegetarian-Resource-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tithi from New Jersey said: I have been a vegetarian my whole life, but only last year did I realize the biggest advantage vegetarians have: we can grow our own food. I started growing my food last year and have been actively involved in sharing my passion with friends and family alike. Now, they love it too! Vegetarianism and vegetarian food are often deemed as boring when that is simply not true; the benefits of vegetarianism exist not only for the animals that you save but also for you&#8211;from eating cleaner and saving money to getting to bond with your family while you can grow your own food. Here, I become &#8220;Brocco Lee&#8221; and show the power of vegetarianism. See her video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php#tihimehta\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php#tihimehta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See other videos here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deadline for The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s next video contest is July 15, 2023. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/videoscholarship.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/videoscholarship.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tithi from New Jersey said: I have been a vegetarian my whole life, but only last year did I realize the biggest advantage vegetarians have: we can grow our own food. I started growing my food last year and have been actively involved in sharing my passion with friends and family alike. Now, they love [&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-20067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067","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=20067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20069,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067\/revisions\/20069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}