{"id":8492,"date":"2016-01-18T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2016-01-19T07:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:03:24","slug":"tesla-and-vegan-car-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/tesla-and-vegan-car-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"TESLA AND VEGAN CAR SEATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image.png 512w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>According to The New York Times,<br \/>\n&#8220;For the eco-conscious car buyer, Tesla\u2019s luxury electric vehicles, with their neck-snapping acceleration, are proof that performance doesn\u2019t have to be sacrificed at the altar of saving the environment.<\/p>\n<p>But for some discerning consumers, there is a nagging problem. The leather in the seats and steering wheel requires slaughtering animals, and the cloth substitute doesn\u2019t quite measure up for a vehicle that can cost more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in response, comes the Tesla that even a luxury-minded vegan could love. Synthetic leather, in a shade Tesla calls Ultra White, is available as an option for the new Model X sport utility vehicle.&#8221; For more information, see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/15\/automobiles\/from-tesla-a-new-car-smell-that-vegans-can-get-behind.html?emc=edit_ct_20160114&#038;nl=personaltech&#038;nlid=20193005&#038;_r=0&#038;referer=\">http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/15\/automobiles\/from-tesla-a-new-car-smell-that-vegans-can-get-behind.html?emc=edit_ct_20160114&#038;nl=personaltech&#038;nlid=20193005&#038;_r=0&#038;referer=<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The New York Times, &#8220;For the eco-conscious car buyer, Tesla\u2019s luxury electric vehicles, with their neck-snapping acceleration, are proof that performance doesn\u2019t have to be sacrificed at the altar of saving the environment. But for some discerning consumers, there is a nagging problem. The leather in the seats and steering wheel requires slaughtering [&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-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","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=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}