{"id":1144,"date":"2009-06-10T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2009-06-10T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T10:45:47","slug":"1144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/1144\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Rights Gets Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Animal-rights activists are using religious messages to recruit a segment of the millennial generation that has little doctrinal anchor, in order to advance their vegetarian agenda,&#8221; said Wes Jamison, an ordained Baptist minister and associate professor of communications at Palm Beach Atlantic University, addressing participants at the Animal Agriculture Alliance&#8217;s 8th Annual Stakeholders Summit, held this week in Alexandria, Va. <\/p>\n<p>Jamison explained that two major factors are driving animal-rights groups&#8217; attempts to engage people of faith. The first is that people motivated by religion tend to give generously, which is an important factor to the &#036;400 million-a-year animal-rights industry. The second reason is that people motivated by religious zeal tend to have sustained intensity over time. This is a critical feature lacking from the current animal-rights movement, since many vegans and vegetarians tend to eventually return to an omnivorous diet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drovers.com\/directories.asp?pgID=675&#038;ed_id=5511\">Animal-rights groups focus on religion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Animal-rights activists are using religious messages to recruit a segment of the millennial generation that has little doctrinal anchor, in order to advance their vegetarian agenda,&#8221; said Wes Jamison, an ordained Baptist minister and associate professor of communications at Palm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/1144\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}