{"id":26600,"date":"2026-04-18T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26600"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:58:18","slug":"upcoming-virtual-summit-on-raising-companion-animals-on-a-plant-based-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/upcoming-virtual-summit-on-raising-companion-animals-on-a-plant-based-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Virtual Summit on Raising Companion Animals on a Plant-Based Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Virtual-Summit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Virtual-Summit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0PawsandPlants.org\u00a0Summit\u00a0will be a five\u2011hour virtual event featuring four veterinary researchers\u2014two from the UK followed by two from the US. These scientists are conducting ongoing clinical research demonstrating improved health and welfare outcomes for companion animals on fully plant\u2011based diets, while also showing that guardians can reduce their environmental footprint by an average of 25-30%. This summit aims to ground the conversation in emerging veterinary science and give attendees the opportunity to hear directly from the researchers leading this work.\u00a0For more information, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/pawsandplants.org\">http:\/\/pawsandplants.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0PawsandPlants.org\u00a0Summit\u00a0will be a five\u2011hour virtual event featuring four veterinary researchers\u2014two from the UK followed by two from the US. These scientists are conducting ongoing clinical research demonstrating improved health and welfare outcomes for companion animals on fully plant\u2011based diets, while also showing that guardians can reduce their environmental footprint by an average of 25-30%. This [&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-26600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600","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=26600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26602,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions\/26602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}