{"id":884,"date":"2020-01-19T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2020-01-19T21:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:42:58","slug":"when-feeding-time-has-come-and-gone-theyll-lose-their-heart-and-head-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/19\/when-feeding-time-has-come-and-gone-theyll-lose-their-heart-and-head-for-home\/","title":{"rendered":"When feeding time has come and gone They&#8217;ll lose their heart and head for home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bearing in mind I take surveys and polls with a terribly large pinch of salt, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the report by Mintel, consumer analysts, about the growth of veganism in the UK (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2020\/jan\/17\/almost-one-in-four-food-products-launched-in-uk-in-2019-labelled-vegan\" target=\"_blank\">the report by Mintel, consumer analysts, about the growth of vegan products in the UK<\/a> suggests a number of things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>only 1% of UK are vegan (not sure this shows any change);<\/li><li>88% of Britons who eat non-meat substitutes say they would still eat meat<\/li><li>in the report, people do not appear to cite animal cruelty or exploitation as a reason for not eating meat:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When asked about the benefits of eating less meat, 25% of consumers cited improving the environment, while 32% said it helped to improve health and 31% said it saved them money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the label <em>flexiterian<\/em> actually means other than to make people think they are being novel or doing something environmental or rebelling in some way. I still can\u2019t get over seeing the couple in the supermarket who declared they were looking forward to eating steak after they finish Veganuary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watched this great little video from The Tate about Surrealism fronted by Peter Capaldi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[su_youtube url=\u201chttps:\/\/youtu.be\/uPD6okhfGzs\u201d] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure what I really achieved today. Time, as I keep telling myself, seems to speed past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bearing in mind I take surveys and polls with a terribly large pinch of salt, the report by Mintel, consumer analysts, about the growth of vegan products in the UK suggests a number of things: only 1% of UK are vegan (not sure this shows any change); 88% of Britons who eat non-meat substitutes say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}