{"id":23084,"date":"2024-06-05T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=23084"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:14:02","slug":"the-cost-of-beans-vs-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/05\/the-cost-of-beans-vs-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Beans vs. Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/VRG-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/VRG-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, The Vegetarian Resource Group reported a study that we conducted comparing the prices of meat-like veggie burgers and vegan ground meat to animal meat. (See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2023issue4\/2023_issue4_vegan_burgers.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2023issue4\/2023_issue4_vegan_burgers.php<\/a>) We expanded our study to include canned and dried beans because these products are often less expensive sources of protein, iron, and other nutrients that are also supplied by veggie burgers and vegan ground meat. Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2024issue2\/2024_issue2_cost_of_beans.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2024issue2\/2024_issue2_cost_of_beans.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, The Vegetarian Resource Group reported a study that we conducted comparing the prices of meat-like veggie burgers and vegan ground meat to animal meat. (See: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2023issue4\/2023_issue4_vegan_burgers.php) We expanded our study to include canned and dried beans because these products are often less expensive sources of protein, iron, and other nutrients that are also [&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-23084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084","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=23084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23086,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084\/revisions\/23086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}