{"id":18276,"date":"2016-08-27T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=18273&amp;preview_id=18273"},"modified":"2016-08-27T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T10:09:35","slug":"oprah-urges-her-33-million-followers-to-go-meatless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=18276","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Urges Her 33 Million Followers to Go Meatless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"defaultBox2\">\n<p>After interviewing HSUS President Wayne Pacelle, Winfrey pledged to go meat-free on Mondays and asked her huge fanbase to do the same.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurette\">\n<p>President of The Humane Society of the United States Wayne Pacelle\u00a0appeared on Oprah Winfrey\u2019s show Super Soul Sunday this past weekend to discuss the connection of humans to animals. Winfrey credited Pacelle\u2019s new book <em>The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals<\/em> for raising her awareness about the connection between animal suffering and human consumption. Pacelle discussed the \u201cschizophrenic\u201d relationship we have with animals, proclaiming to love them while continuing to exploit them for food, fashion, and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a moment\u2014are we not?\u2014where there is an awakening to a new way of bringing consciousness to how we treat animals around us,\u201d Winfrey said. \u201cListen,\u201d Pacelle answered, \u201cwe were asleep with our treatment of animals,\u201d adding, \u201cI think in the last five to 10 years, we\u2019ve started to wake up.\u201d Pacelle offered Winfrey advice on what small things people could do to have an impact on the lives of animals, telling her to go meatless on Mondays. After the show, Winfrey took to Twitter and urged her 33.5 million followers to go meat-free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After interviewing HSUS President Wayne Pacelle, Winfrey pledged to go meat-free on Mondays and asked her huge fanbase to do the same. President of The Humane Society of the United States Wayne Pacelle\u00a0appeared on Oprah Winfrey\u2019s show Super Soul Sunday this past weekend to discuss the connection of humans to animals. Winfrey credited Pacelle\u2019s new [&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\/18276"}],"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=18276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}