{"id":1,"name":"PopVeg Patrick","url":"http:\/\/www.PopVegOnline.com","description":"I stopped eating meat in 1996, and dropped fish and poultry and everything else that wasn't plant based in 2007.  \r\n\r\nIn the first half of 2009, I went full-on vegan.  \r\n\r\nWhy? \r\n\r\nThree reasons.\r\n\r\nMy health.  Countless solid reports show huge advantages to Vegans with regard to cancers of all kinds, obesity, diabetes, and on and on. \r\n\r\nThe environment.  More harmful emissions come from livestock methane than from all cars combined.  That's scary.  Not to mention that 70 percent of rain forest deforestation is to provide pasture land for farm animals - and almost all of the remaining 30 percent is for crops for them. \r\n\r\nThird... the quality of life that animals experience is so frightening... so wrong.  Even if you're going to eat them, they shouldn't be systematically tortured throughout their entire lives.  Then there's the poop and pus in milk and dairy and cheese.  And the hormones.  And the antibiotics.  And.  And.  And. \r\n \r\nOur Vegan Cooking Show is on hitatus - but watch for it  - Sundays at 5 east.  Replays online at www.popvegonline.com.","link":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/","slug":"admin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1\/58955f166a8d0cb92b7bfff79f5c0245-bpthumb.png","48":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1\/58955f166a8d0cb92b7bfff79f5c0245-bpthumb.png","96":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1\/58955f166a8d0cb92b7bfff79f5c0245-bpfull.png"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}