{"id":1170,"date":"2009-07-07T05:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2009-07-07T05:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T09:18:35","slug":"1170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/1170\/","title":{"rendered":"Veganism Can Only Go So Far\u2013It\u2019s the Economy, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>British consumers who in the past were willing to pay a premium for organic, Fairtrade and eco-friendly goods are now turning their backs on buying ethical in favour of cheaper shopping bills, according to a survey.<\/p>\n<p>It is a trend that is likely to be long-term, according to research, which indicated that three in every five shoppers (69%) say they plan to continue cutting back on organic food after the downturn. Two-thirds (61%) claim they will seek to pay less for ethically sourced foods, such as Fairtrade, when the downturn ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/jul\/06\/shoppers-survey-fairtrade-green-budget\">Recession sees shoppers switch from green to budget products<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this report does not make any specific reference to veganism, it does beg the question in the Grumpy Vegan&#8217;s mind that absolute and uncompromising campaigns for universal veganism are dead in the water when for many, many people economic considerations are &#8212; and always will be &#8212; paramount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British consumers who in the past were willing to pay a premium for organic, Fairtrade and eco-friendly goods are now turning their backs on buying ethical in favour of cheaper shopping bills, according to a survey. It is a trend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/1170\/\">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":[7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organising","tag-animal-protection-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}