{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"HappyCow","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog","author_name":"FranHebrard","author_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/fran-hebrard\/","title":"The Art of Being Ecovegan - HappyCow","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WSu8GzCwIf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/the-art-of-being-ecovegan\/\">The Art of Being Ecovegan<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/the-art-of-being-ecovegan\/embed\/#?secret=WSu8GzCwIf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Art of Being Ecovegan&#8221; &#8212; HappyCow\" data-secret=\"WSu8GzCwIf\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ecoveganism1.jpg","thumbnail_width":758,"thumbnail_height":192,"description":"By Fran\u00e7oise H\u00e9brard A history of the English word *VEGAN*: it was invented in 1943 by Donald Watson by contracting the word *VEGetariAN*. At that time, a drift from strict vegetarianism took place in England when eggs and dairy products were added to the diet. Therefore, a *vegan* association was created to regain the initial values of strict vegetarianism. Besides the diet, a vegan has to respect in all other aspects of his life (clothing, transportation, sport, etc.) the right of animals to live as much as possible a free and natural life. Since about 15 000 years ago, hunting has been gradually replaced by farming and manual labour by agriculture. This change has facilitated our survival and settlement but has thrown humanity into a speciesist civilization. Speciesism is an ideological elitism that favours the interests of our species at the expense of other animal species. It justifies and imposes the exploitation, use and abuse of animals judged to be inferior, in a way that would be intolerable if the victim would be human. This speciesist elitism and its arrogant pride is to species what sexism and racism are to gender and races, respectively, i.e. not taking the interests of [&hellip;]"}