{"id":22116,"date":"2023-11-14T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=22116"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:53:49","slug":"vrgs-2023-video-contest-winner-from-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/14\/vrgs-2023-video-contest-winner-from-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"VRG\u2019s 2023 Video Contest Winner from Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VRG-2023-Video-Contest-Winner-from-PA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VRG-2023-Video-Contest-Winner-from-PA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Megan from Pennsylvania said: Initially, I went vegetarian because of the inhumane practices of meat husbandry. I grew up near two large meat packing plants, so I frequently witness trucks transporting cattle or pigs to those facilities. It has always made me sad, which motivated me to go vegetarian when I was twelve. I\u2019ve remained vegetarian because of the environmental impact of the meat industry, and advocate for more people to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle (or include less meat in their diet)! I hope to go vegan one day once my lifestyle supports it!<\/p>\n<p>Watch her video here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php#meganwilkinson\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/veg_videos.php#meganwilkinson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan from Pennsylvania said: Initially, I went vegetarian because of the inhumane practices of meat husbandry. I grew up near two large meat packing plants, so I frequently witness trucks transporting cattle or pigs to those facilities. It has always made me sad, which motivated me to go vegetarian when I was twelve. I\u2019ve remained [&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-22116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116","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=22116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}