{"id":2718,"date":"2012-02-09T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2012-05-04T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:49:42","slug":"abcs-wwyd-looks-at-veggie-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/abcs-wwyd-looks-at-veggie-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC&#8217;s WWYD looks at Veggie Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC used the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/vrgparents\/\">VRGParents<\/a> list as a resource for the upcoming episode of the ABC &#8220;hidden camera&#8221; show What Would You Do? In this episode, strangers pressure a vegan child to eat meat. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen a couple forces a hot dog on a young girl in a New Jersey restaurant, neighboring diners are confused and surprised; the girl&#8217;s mother had clearly said that the family does not eat meat, dairy or animal by-products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone eats hamburgers, it&#8217;s un-American not to eat meat,&#8221; said the man, urging the girl to enjoy the hot dog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So she gets no protein,&#8221; added his companion.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will the other patrons in the restaurant stand up for the child&#8217;s way of life? We&#8217;ll have to tune in at 9 p.m. Eastern\/8 p.m. Central to find out.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the show, and to see a clip of the episode visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/entertainment\/2012\/02\/is-it-un-american-to-avoid-meat-wwyd-tackles-vegan-bashing\/\">ABC News website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For information about vegan and vegetarian nutrition for children and teenagers, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/family\/kidsindex.htm\">Teens, Family, &#038; Kids<\/a> section of our website.<\/p>\n<p>VRGParents is an email list for vegetarian parents and parents of vegetarians. For information on joining the list, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/vrgparents\/\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/vrgparents\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC used the VRGParents list as a resource for the upcoming episode of the ABC &#8220;hidden camera&#8221; show What Would You Do? In this episode, strangers pressure a vegan child to eat meat. When a couple forces a hot dog on a young girl in a New Jersey restaurant, neighboring diners are confused and surprised; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}