Vegetarian Star

Carl Lewis, nine time Olympic gold medal champion and vegan, is running in the 6-kilometer Run for Water race in Atlanta, Georgia on April 18 to raise awareness for water scarcity.

The charity fits well into his vegan lifestyle, Lewis says, as clean water is just an important element of health as animal free food.

“I’ve always been someone who cared about and loved the environment,” Lewis told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “It was really kind of a perfect match. When I heard about the event, it was something that fits. … I’ve been around the world several times. I can understand the issue of water scarcity. I’ve always disliked plastic water bottles. This fits into my overall thoughts about that and being a vegan and having my foundation focus on health and fitness, this all fits into the message that I’m living.”

Lewis says that although there are challenges to being vegan when eating out, even a steakhouse can keep you vegetarian if you make the effort.

“Basically, when I’m home, I’m completely a vegan. When I’m out, I eat some things. I don’t stress it. If there’s a steakhouse around, it’s the greatest place for vegetarians. There’s always a salad bar, and you can always get a baked potato.”

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Animal Factory by David Kirby

Investigative journalist David Kirby has published a book on the effects of factory farming on communities, Animal Factory.

Kirby details the lives of three individuals, using their experiences to illustrate how big business in the food system affects small people: a North Carolina fisherman who’s river is polluted by a nearby pig farm, a mother in Illinois affected by a dairy farm, and a grandmother who’s home is covered in soot and water supply is compromised from cattle waste runoff.

The book is gaining praise from reviewers across the nation. Here are just a few comments.

“Good journalists know that the key to hooking their audience on a complex social problem is to put a human face on it. And David Kirby is a good journalist. In his new book Animal Factory Kirby puts a human face on the threat of industrial meat production to humans and environmental health.” —-FRANK STASIO, WUNC-FM, NPR Affiliate, North Carolina

“Animal Factory is a valuable addition to the growing number of works like Food Inc. and The Omnivore’s Dilemma exposing the ills of mass-produced meat and dairy. Kirby uses the stories of the three families, as they move from their local fights to the national scene, to draw readers into the morass of government regulations and lawsuits that surround the CAFO issue.”
–EUGENE WEEKLY

“If you want to know about the worst practices of our food system, David Kirby is your man. Kirby has the inside track on all things factory farm, which is why Washington Post’s “On Leadership” column recently invited him to write a guest post about President Obama’s record on reform in this area.”–Change.org

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Angelina Jolie bought a $5,000 horse hair bag, but investigated before saying “yay,” to neigh.

Before she was caught carrying the Akris ecru horsehair handbag, Jolie had her stylist call the company to see if they treated the horses well.

“We told her horses get haircuts just like we do,” Akris designers Albert Kriemler said.

As a spokesperson for the company, nothing but positive responses would be expected.

Girliegirlarmy has a suggestion for the next time Jolie buys a purse:

“A word to the wise Ms. Jolie: Anytime you are buying an animal product, you can be sure as heck it wasn’t just a “haircut.” Next time, choose compassion. Stella McCartney bags are always entirely cruelty free!”

Time now to share your thoughts.

Can an animal derived product ever be cruelty-free?

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Jillian Michaels may scream, berate and boss people around on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, but she insists that’s not the way you should treat your kids if you’re trying to get them in shape.

“The Biggest Loser is about life-or-death confrontations. Last ditch attempts to get people back on track. Kids need positive reinforcement only,” Jillian explained to Parent Dish.

Getting kids involved with physical activities can be combined with nutrition, such as planting and growing your own vegetables in a backyard garden, suggests the pescatarian.

“Teach them about healthy goods to help them become a healthy grownup. Don’t make it about pounds or calorie counting. Involve them in the food. Let them start a little vegetable garden so they are invested. Challenge them to find fruits and veggies in their favorite colors and so on. This helps to keep health fun and make them feel in control of their choices.”

We can totally see the garden thing as a competitive, but positive experience for kids.

Team blue gets the green beans. Team red gets tomatoes.

Who can harvest more at the end of the season?

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“I started it a couple years ago as a portal for people to have access to inspiration, information goods and services. Whenever I learn something and I go “What? Why didn’t anyone ever tell me before?” I put it on there. It’s all information I get excited about and I want other people to know. It’s all based on ethical lifestyle choices.”

—Daryl Hannah, on her way to a sustainable fuels event, on why she started her website, dhlovelife, which unlike other love lives, is never filled with Too Much Information about vegetarian and environmental issues.

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Guy Fieri has just finished wrapping up an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives at the Nickel Diner in Los Angeles, California.

The diner is not vegetarian, but does feature some very vegetarian friendly items on its menu.

For breakfast, the “For Animal Lovers” dish contains tofu scramble with spinach, roasted garlic, sweet peppers, beans and optional goat cheese, and the “Vegan Ranchero” consists of fried tofu on a bed of beans, soy cheese, avocado, salsa, with corn tortillasa.

Lunch can satisfy you with the “Grilled Veggie” with vegetables like eggplant, zucchini and carmelized onions with mozzarella on bread or the “Stuffed Avocado” with quinoa salad.

For dinner, why not try the vegan chili with soy cheese and avocado?

All are under $10 and let’s hope they remain on the menu by the time the show broadcasts at 10PM on Monday, October 19.

Fieri himself probably stayed away from those dishes, considering he claims the vegan, macrobiotic meals his parents served him as a child scarred him for life, forcing him to ask in adulthood if bacon could count as a vegetable.

Not in most places, but maybe in the school systems where Jamie Oliver is forced to follow those pesky USDA rules.

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Tori Spelling revealed 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me to Us Magazine, and several of these secrets lead us to believe Spelling has the potential to be both a great animal activist and vegetarian.

For example, she works with rescue animals and took in cats–even though they make her sneeze!:
“I’m allergic to cats, but I had three of them for years because they’re supercute and I work with rescue animals.”

She wants to open her own animal sanctuary up one day:
“One day, I want to open an animal sanctuary to house all the homeless, unwanted and abandoned animals.”

If we can’t get her off meat completely, she’d likely do well as a pescatarian:
“Could live on sushi and be really happy!”

She’s got that small farmer, grow you own mentality:
“I dream of living on a farm. I want chickens, goats, cows and horses! We want to grow our own veggies and fruits and make our own milk and cheese!”

Vegetarian Star suggests Tori make her own vegan cheese.

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Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but her prognosis is positive.

Getting in the bad habit of missing regular breast exams, Navratilova said another missed year could have been costly.

“I went four years between mammograms. I let it slide. Everyone gets busy, but don’t make excuses,” she said.

“I stay in shape and eat right, and it happened to me. Another year and I could have been in big trouble.”

Navratilova has been involved with animal activism and was a complete vegetarian for many years before adding fish to her diet.

Following a vegetarian diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables rich in beta-carotene may increase the chances of survival if a diagnoses of breast cancer is obtained.

When researchers divided Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer into three groups based on the amount of beta-carotene containing fruits and vegetables they consumed, the group with the highest beta-carotene consumption experienced the fewest deaths over six years, while the group with the lowest experienced the most.

One possible explanation for this is that in the digestive tract, beta-carotene is converted to Vitamin A, which is then converted to retinoic acid, which has demonstrated anti-cancer effects on cells.

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