{"id":5449,"date":"2014-04-21T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:57:36","slug":"celebrate-earth-day-go-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/21\/celebrate-earth-day-go-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATE EARTH DAY \u2013 GO VEGAN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the largest user of fresh water is the livestock industry?<br \/>\nWater is directly needed for drinking and cleaning of animals. And that\u2019s a lot<br \/>\nof water when we\u2019re talking about over 10 billion animals raised for food in<br \/>\nthe United States alone every year. But the biggest way animal agriculture<br \/>\nconsumes water is indirectly. A large amount of fresh water is used to grow<br \/>\nthe feed that livestock animals eat. By comparison, it takes a lot less water<br \/>\nto grow the grains, beans, legumes, fruits, and vegetables that make up a typical vegetarian diet.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i58.tinypic.com\/168fx2u.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"508\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VRG&#8217;s &#8220;Save Our Water The Vegetarian Way&#8221; Brochure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Show your friends how eating a veggie diet saves water. Share this brochure:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/water_brochure.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/water_brochure.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the largest user of fresh water is the livestock industry? Water is directly needed for drinking and cleaning of animals. And that\u2019s a lot of water when we\u2019re talking about over 10 billion animals raised for food in the United States alone every year. But the biggest way animal agriculture consumes [&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-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}