{"id":3198,"date":"2011-04-14T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2011-04-14T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:39:58","slug":"veg-news-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/veg-news-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Veg News Responds &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, of course, sympathetic to the circumstances which <em>Veg News<\/em> describes in its response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/vegnewsgate\/\" target=\"_blank\">VegNewsGate<\/a> to the challenge of producing a magazine on a limited budget. I cited earlier my experience with <em>The Animals&#8217; Agend<\/em>a magazine. I completely understand their circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless I find their <a href=\"http:\/\/vegnews.com\/web\/articles\/page.do?pageId=3165&amp;catId=8\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> explaining and justifying their use of photographs of meat and dairy dishes and representing them as vegan as unacceptable. To use such a photograph once when at the last minute a replacement is needed under the pressure of a deadline is one thing. But to make this a routine editorial practice is quite something else.<\/p>\n<p>This will, for many people, question the veracity of the magazine. A tragedy that could have been avoided. And helps no one.<\/p>\n<p>Further, a colleague pointed out an earlier episode in which the magazine&#8217;s editorial integrity is questioned. Again, I know what it is like to publish a magazine and incur the wrath of people who disagree with what you decide to include or not and what you say or don&#8217;t say as the case maybe. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldpeacediet.org\/urgent.htm\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. Judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, we need magazines like <em>Veg News<\/em>. I truly hope they take the necessary steps &#8212; and be seen to be doing so &#8212; to move beyond this crisis and resume their mission to advance cruelty-free living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, of course, sympathetic to the circumstances which Veg News describes in its response to VegNewsGate to the challenge of producing a magazine on a limited budget. I cited earlier my experience with The Animals&#8217; Agenda magazine. I completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/veg-news-responds\/\">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":[4,6],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","category-moaning","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}