{"id":52241,"date":"2018-07-12T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52241"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:01","slug":"coulter-its-not-business-as-usual-for-vegan-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/07\/coulter-its-not-business-as-usual-for-vegan-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"COULTER: It\u2019s not business as usual for vegan businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor in Labour Studies, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/its-not-business-as-usual-for-vegan-businesses-99802?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018+CID_ef1dc4b5414a6a69a3ca576bd25f3de5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Its%20not%20business%20as%20usual%20for%20vegan%20businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about the growing wave of vegan businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>In contrast to growing apprehension about trade wars, a rapidly expanding sector of the economy is offering a more hopeful picture: vegan businesses. Scarcely a week goes by without news of a new vegan business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Diverse plant-based restaurants are popping up in communities of all sizes. Innovative vegan foods are\u00a0becoming more accessible\u00a0and changing at-home meals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dairy producers are transitioning to\u00a0plant-based milks. Vegan hotels are beginning to provide appealing getaway options. Admittedly, I find\u00a0vegan handbag lines\u00a0particularly stunning and enticing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This trend is not surprising. More and more people are looking to purchase products that\u00a0don\u2019t cause animal suffering and death. Consumers are also becoming more aware of the myriad health benefits of\u00a0plant-based eating. Plus, research is making it crystal-clear that industrial animal agriculture is a major driver of climate change, and\u00a0that removing animal products from our diets\u00a0is one of the most significant things we can do on a daily basis to protect the environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/its-not-business-as-usual-for-vegan-businesses-99802?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018+CID_ef1dc4b5414a6a69a3ca576bd25f3de5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Its%20not%20business%20as%20usual%20for%20vegan%20businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor in Labour Studies, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about the growing wave of vegan businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[110,3126,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52242,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241\/revisions\/52242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}