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The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood

Children’s books are getting more progressive and politically correct these days.

The big bad wolf in The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood can now be vegetarian and skip the treat of human meat while Little Red searches for vegetarian recipes.

Sounds hilarious enough, but not everyone is happy with the rewrites of traditional children’s stories.

The Mail Online wrote an article titled, Children Won’t Digest Tales of Feeble Vegetarian Wolves, in which it stated:

“What is so staggering is the sheer audacity of the people who come up with these new versions. It’s like the trendy Anglican clerics who took it upon themselves in the early 1960s to knock out an ‘improved’ version of the King James Bible. Yet just as we allow our local vicars to get away with using the enfeebled modernised Bible, so we let bookshops get away with flogging emaciated versions of children’s classics.”

A vegetarian wolf is far from emaciated.

What better way to teach children about healthy eating (not to mention non violent behavior) than to have the villainous wolf eat vegetables and forgo flesh.

This wolf should be portrayed living longer than his other wolf neighbors, paying less out of pocket expenses for his health care and scoring more with the female wolves as he misses out on the effects of eating cholesterol and fat filled human meat that will ultimately lead to his impotence.

Oh, wait. This is a children’s book. Healthy body, less doctor visits, but no impotence.

Perhaps other renditions of classic tales have adulterated the originals.

But the big, bad vegetarian wolf and his broccoli should stay.

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Growing up, you may have read the famous Little Women book by Louisa May Alcott.

A documentary of the author, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, is airing tonight on PBS at 9PM EST in most areas, as part of the American Masters Series.

The film is based on a book with the same title by Harriet Reisen, which claims Alcott was raised vegetarian.

Movies usually don’t portray as accurately as the books. Will the American Masters film show an Alcott eating loads of meat during her lifetime?

Watch the clip for a sneak preview.

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Raw Food For Real People

If you like it raw, you might want to pick up a copy of Raw Food For Real People by Rod Rotondi.

Filled with raw vegan recipes from comfort food favorites like lasagna, pizza and and brownies to more exotic dishes like pad thai, Raw Food not only teaches how to cook raw, but gives arguments for why you should be eating raw.

As sbsun.com states, Raw Food is filled with “information on how raw foods offer a natural, healthy alternative to the overloaded, overprocessed diet that has made America bloated and sick.”

Chef Rotondi is the owner of Leaf Organics, an LA based raw food enterprise that attracts clients like Woody Harrelson.

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Jonathan Safran Foer‘s trailer for Eating Animals features the very creature Jonathan used to despise–the dog!

“I had a particular lack of enthusiasm for dogs—inspired, in large part, by a related fear that I inherited from my mother, which she inherited from my grandmother,” Jonathan said.

Jonathan discusses french kisses with the dog, dinners with grandma and how his wife’s pregnancy with his first son prompted him to write his latest book in the trailer.

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HLN anchor Jane Velez Mitchell devoted an entire chapter to vegetarians, AR issues in her book iWant.

As expected, some great quotes can be taken from the chapter, “Veganism/Animal Activism: I Want to Make a Difference.”

Here are a few that cover diet, animal welfare and the environment.

“The mutt in the shelter is just as good a dog and often healthier and smarter. Certainly, a mutt is less likely to be inbred.”

“By going vegan, the average American consumer can become a hero, sparing the lives of hundreds of animals every year.”

“Just as sobriety cleansed and elevated me, so did going vegan.”

“The vegan transformation I’ve experienced goes way beyond diet. It’s really allowed me to put my spiritual and moral concepts into action on a daily basis.”

“Switching to a vegetable-rich diet is also the single most important thing you can do for the environment.”

“If you want to run like a horse and not look like a house, switch to veggie burgers.”

“One day, humans will look back and view the treatment of animals in the early twenty-first century as barbaric and the mark of a primitive society.”

Wow.

Only three more quotes needed before we have our very own Veg 10 Commandments.

Read more quotes and build your veggie motto from Jane’s wisdom at hcibooks.com.

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Jonathan Safran Foer "Eating Animals" Interview

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer was interviewed by Kerry Trueman of the Huffington Post recently.

Jonathan did extensive research before writing Eating Animals, primarily investigating factory farms and the conditions that animals raised for food endure.

As expected, some farms wouldn’t let Jonathan past the front door.

A few excerpts:

KT: Did you have any real expectation that Tyson–the world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, as you note in your book–would agree to give you a tour of any of its farms?

JSF: To be honest, I did, because I know that they have “show farms”. All these companies have show farms. I thought I would at least get a response–you know, “Unfortunately, we won’t be able to show you the farms because of biosecurity, but we’d be happy to give you these brochures.”

The thing that really surprised me was the total lack of a response. I didn’t get anywhere with anybody.

KT: And now, of course, after the fact, the industrial livestock industry’s accusing you of not doing your homework, which is really funny, because when they had the opportunity to throw open the doors–

JSF: –Yeah, so let’s do it! Let’s do the homework now, it’s not too late! Seriously, I would be so happy to revise my book if they showed me something else. But they’re not going to show me anything.

You can at least do your homework on Jonathan by reading the entire interview at Huffingtonpost.com.

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For all of you enjoying your Kind Diet book copy, you’ll be pleased to know another Alicia Silverstone work may be on the way.

But first, she has to announce she has a child on the way.

“Yeah, but I want to wait until I have kids and then write a book for children,” Alicia said, when asked if she planned to write another book.

“I have a lot to say about kids, but I don’t think anyone wants to hear that when you don’t have them! [Laughs.] So I want to have kids and go through, ideally, a whole natural-birth experience.”

Maybe Alicia and Erykah Badu could do some talking about natural birth together? Erykah could teach Alicia how to coherently Tweet while doing so.

Until Alicia puts a vegan baby on board, pick up a copy of That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals by Ruby Roth to teach your children about a vegetarian lifestyle.

via fncimag.com

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Sarah Palin "Going Rogue"

The long awaited Sarah Palin book (insert laugh) will arrive at your local bookstore November 17 2009.

Sarah chose to make fun of herself and include some of her own Palinisms that made an entire nation mock her along with Saturday Night Live.

What Would Sarah cook for a vegetarian?
“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”

Alaska’s animals belong next to the vegetables–on a plate:
“I love meat. I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.”

Yes, we know Sarah’s making her attempt at humor, but after angering so many on her animal and environment policies, should she back away from the snide remarks towards those who don’t pack moose Lunchables for their children every morning?

Feels like we’re asking you to vote Funny or Die.

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