{"id":15552,"date":"2016-08-16T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T05:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=15549&amp;preview_id=15549"},"modified":"2016-08-16T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T05:40:23","slug":"indian-city-becomes-first-vegetarian-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=15552","title":{"rendered":"Indian City Becomes First Vegetarian City in the World &#8211; Mercy For Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Worldcrunch reports a historic change in Palitana, an Indian city, which has become the first all-vegetarian city in the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Behind this revolutionary change are the Jain monks who went on a hunger strike to pressure the state of Gujarat to outlaw animal slaughter in their city. The hunger strike was<br \/>\nsuccessful and the Gujarat government imposed a ban on animal slaughter and outlawed the sale of meat and eggs.<\/p>\n<p>About 5 million people in India practice Jainism and agree with the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Sagar Maharaj, a Jain monk, says, &#8220;Everyone in this world &#8211; whether animal or human being or a very small creature &#8211; has all been given the right to live by God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>As individuals, the best thing you can do to protect animals is to adopt a kind vegan lifestyle.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldcrunch reports a historic change in Palitana, an Indian city, which has become the first all-vegetarian city in the world. Behind this revolutionary change are the Jain monks who went on a hunger strike to pressure the state of Gujarat to outlaw animal slaughter in their city. The hunger strike was successful and the Gujarat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}