Vegetarian Star

So let’s play a little game. How many animals go into a 4 ounce hamburger? Four, eight, 10, 12? Sorry, game over. It’s more like 200-1,000! Yes, we know this makes you want to vomit, but there’s nothing like hearing the truth from someone who’s walked the line.

Howard Lyman is an animal rights advocate who grew up farming, became a factory farmer himself, then did a complete 180 and became vegetarian.  He’s also the author of the book “Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat.” You may remember his name being dropped in 1996 when he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show. He and O said some pretty bad stuff about meat. They both were sued by The National Cattleman’s Beef Association and both (obviously) got off the hook.

After finishing college, he turned his small family owned organic farm into a factory one with over 30 employees and 7,000 cattle (which, according to the stats above, all 7,000 of those cows could easily be mixed in with only a measly seven Happy Meals. McYuck!)

It took an illness, paralysis, and lying in a hospital bed for him to fully think about the implications of what he was doing. He thinks the world needs to get more into organic farming, and everyone, regardless of what’s on their plate, must realize the impact of how diet, farming, and the treatment of animals effects the earth.

“We don’t all have to agree on the diet we choose, but we have to agree that this planet is the only one we have. We need to think about where we’re going and we need to do it in this generation.”

via The Orion
Photo: jeckman on Flickr

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For our Canadian readers, this one’s for you. Of course, you could argue that any one of the Bryan Adam’s posts is for you as well. Or Avril Lavigne. Well, darn, never mind. Us posting news about Canadian stars isn’t so unique after all.

Anyway, we like talking about vegetarian stars from around the world and this time we’re heading north to bring you some info we found about actress Gabrielle Miller. She stars in a popular Canadian show, “Corner Gas,” which won a Gemini award (Canadian version of Emmy) in 2007. She’s also been a sci-fi chick, having roles in “Stargate SG-1” and “The X Files”, where she played two different roles (how out of this world does that sound? ha, ha, geek humor.)

She was raised vegetarian by her vegetarian and raw food enthusiast parents. “I sometimes eat rennet-free cheese but otherwise I’m vegan.”

Since she spends a lot of time in L.A., she’s had the chance to develop some opinions on the city’s culture, health and foodwise. Although we think of the city packed with fit bods and ultra organic foodies, she doesn’t feel everyone’s getting ripped the right way.

“They come to LA and have to stay slim so they diet and really mess with their metabolism which puts them unhealthily out of balance. But, on the other hand, LA is a wonderful city for vegetarians and those who eat natural whole foods, with an incredible support system of stores and restaurants that cater to this lifestyle.”

Go read the interview at vistamagonline.com and learn how she avoids cutting corners when it comes to healthy eating despite her hectic schedule at times.

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Happy Vegetarian Awareness Month! Yes, we’re horrible with birthdays, anniversaries and the like so we’re a little more than halfway into it, but hey, time’s not up yet.

The good green folks at Ecorazzi are on top of things, though and they’re featuring a series of vegetarian celebrity interviews this month. Their most recent chit chat session was with the infamous French fry eating junkatarian Nellie McKay.

McKay, a singer and songwriter who’s also had some fame on Broadway, has been a vegetarian since age eight, but admitted to “cheating” a few times in the school cafeteria.

If she could go back in time and meet some of the famous vegetarians she would have liked to have been in the presence of Zora Neil Hurston, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Caroline White, founder of the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Speaking of vivisection, protesting animal research is something she is very passionate about and she once wrote a song, “Columbia is Bleeding,” to symbolize her disapproval with the vivisection labs at Columbia University.

“Unwilling experiments on human beings have yielded certain kinds of “progress,” but most people would say that it’s unconscionable to test on prisoners or disabled people or minorities or women — which would probably be the first types of people they would try that on. Most people wouldn’t accept that, and the same thing should be said with animals. No matter what the benefit! And the benefit is really small to nil that comes out of animal experimentation; it’s not worth what we have to do.”

Read the interview in its entirety, here.

Photo: Amy T. Zielinkski on Creative Commons

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“Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.”

—Pamela Anderson, who although sometimes gives too much information, always has good intentions when it comes to speaking her mind on veg issues.

Photo: indio on Flickr

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“I gave up meat when I was twelve.  One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.”

—-Josh Hartnett, who although had such a bad experience with chicken as a child, that didn’t stop him from eating meat during the filming of the Black Dahlia.

Photo: cplbasilisk on Flickr

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“Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell ‘Boo’ out the window.”

—-Pamela Anderson, actress who protested against Kentucky Fried Chicken for its treatment of chickens before and during slaughter. When driving through Canada, her children can cheer now that KFC put a meatless chicken patty on the menu.

Photo: cdnmusicdiva on Flickr

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“You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say, because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother’s attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

—-Ellen DeGeneres, who recently announced she has become a vegan. That vegan red velvet cake at the wedding must have really won her over!

Photo: Alan Light on Flickr. Description: Ellen DeGeneres at Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles. Ellen is attending one of Oprah Winfrey’s (who tried being vegan, but only for 21 days) 50th birthday parties.

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Joaquin Phoenix was raised vegan by his parents and for the most part, never disobeyed. However, like many young adolescent boys and girls with much bravado, every once in awhile he rebelled and went against mom and dad’s teachings, dabbling in dairy here and there. One such rebellious act taught him an important lesson.

He was eating at a friend’s house and everyone else was having cheese pizza.

“They got pizza, and I was like, ‘I’m having some motherf**king pizza.'”

Unfortunately, it was the pizza that had him.

“I ate two slices and vomited for two days.”

This was his first and only experience eating pizza with dairy cheese on it. He actually craves salads and vegetables and doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth, which he says makes him a “parent’s dream.”

Well, maybe not always a vegan parent’s dream. But some youngsters have to learn lessons the hard way.

via Contact Music
Photo: Cauldfieldh on Wikimedia

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