Vegetarian Star

The Social Network

The Social Network has a scene where Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin‘s character feeds his pet chicken (they’re allowing these in dorm rooms these days?) chicken meat. In defense, Saverin yells, “Fish eat other fish!”

According to Cannibalism: Chicken Little Meets Hannibal Lecture written by members of a graduate Foraging Ecology Class at the University of Idaho and Washington State University under the direction of Drs. Karen Launchbaugh and Lisa Shipley, chickens rationale for eating chickens varies differently in the wild versus captivity. In the wild, the behavior is perceived as an adaptive function to increase fitness, eliminate competitors (yep, that’ll definitely do it) and providing nutrients. In captivity, however, it’s abnormal behavior that some have suggested is yet another problem of crowded farm conditions meant to churn out as much chicken product as possible at the animal’s expense.

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Actor Ernest Borgnine has the secret to living into your nineties.

Twice a day you can bet he’s beating the meat or choking the chicken, but this vegetarian isn’t tenderizing steak or being cruel to animals. Borgnine says the secret to staying healthy is staying away from meat and masturbating.

Borgnine told WENN, “I answered that question one time on Fox News. This fella kept bothering me all morning: ‘What do you do to keep yourself so worked up?’ Finally, I got sick and got tired and I forgot that I was miked. I reached over and replied, ‘I masturbate a lot!'”

“I also gave up meat about 35 years ago.”

Does Borgnine really have the secret to living a long, disease-free life? We already know a vegetarian diet is good for beating the main nasties in health like cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. But should masturbation be on the doctor’s recommendation list for wellness? Turns out beating the meat but not eating it has fantastic benefits for men and women.

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Steve Jobs will have his own private, vegetable garden at his new pad, reports Cult of Mac, which also has a layout of the 5,000 square feet design on its website.

Gizmodo gave the intricate details:

“According to these initial designs, Jobs intends to populate the 6 acres with an assortment of indigenous flora; a simple three-car garage; a modest 5 bedroom home with plenty of windows and decks; a network of lighted stone walkways; and even a private vegetable garden. Everything is neat, tight, pragmatic, and in its place.”

This leaves more questions to be answered, of course. What vegetables will be included? Will the garden be organic? Does Jobs have a staff to tend to the veggies or does he have a natural green thumb himself?

It may awhile before the public learns these answers, but there is information available on why people garden in the first place, according to a survey by the National Gardening Association called “Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America.”

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Actress Amanda Holden probably can’t identify with the latest findings that Americans aren’t getting enough vegetables and fruit consumption is lower than before and not just because she’s British.

“This is going to make me sound like Martha Stewart, but I always start the day with a fresh fruit smoothie,” The Daily Mail reports Holden as saying. “I eat stacks of vegetables because I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 13.”

For the produce consumption challenged (which sometimes includes vegetarians), deliberately eating at least 3 servings of vegetables a day may take a little creative work. Treehugger suggests digging up old enemies from childhood and retrying those vegetables to see if your adult palate is more welcoming.

For the highly motivated, there are 19 ways to get 9 servings a day. Here are a few of the suggestions.

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This weekend at PETA’s 30th anniversary gala, Pamela Anderson revealed she thinks eating vegan has helped her symptoms of Hepatitis C, a disease she contracted in 2002.

“I have Hepatitis C and I feel great, which I think has a lot to do with my diet,” Anderson said. “I feel better, I always feel healthy, but I feel better.”

A vegetarian diet has been shown to ease several ailments of the liver, including the final stages of liver failure, but one study found a diet in vegetable proteins helped with a condition known as Hepatic Encephalopathy, sometimes a complication of Hepatitis C that is marked by changes in mental processes like brain fogginess, confusion and forgetfulness.

Published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences, the study found that a “vegetable-protein diet resulted in overall clinical improvement, decreased hepatic encephalopathy index scores, decreased arterial ammonia levels, improved performance on intellectual tasks, and in one case, markedly improved protein tolerance.”

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"The Food Matters Cookbook" Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman‘s latest book, The Food Matters Cookbook, is filled with recipes designed for the flexitarian or those looking to consume less meat. Bittman gave an interview to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette where the topic of a study indicating Americans aren’t getting enough fruits and vegetables came up.

Bittman insists that most people would reduce meat intake if they had the resources, whether that’d be through enticing recipes, food stores or money, but questioned the reality that everyone could become vegetarian or vegan.

“Just about every study and survey show that people want to eat more fruits and vegetables and are aware of the benefits of eating less meat. They just don’t know how to do it,” Bittman said.

“A conservative estimate is that 80 percent of what we eat should come from unprocessed plants, which is such a big turnaround that we won’t be able to achieve it in our lifetimes. To say everyone needs to be a vegan is a nice idea, but that’s kind of like saying everyone should ride a bicycle. It’s simply not going to happen. The challenge then is, how do we move in that direction of eating less of A and more of B?”

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Cloris Leachman says being vegetarian is so great for her body scent, not even the stress from the camera spotlight gives her a need to wipe under the armpits.

“If you don’t eat meat, you don’t smell… I don’t ever wear a deodorant,” Leachman said.

Whoa, there, Cloris. Did your Dancing with the Stars partner agree that carrots did that part of the body good?

So there is at least one study showing the female species enjoyed the sweat from the vegetarian male armpits more than a meat eater’s.

And mainstream deodorants may be tested on animals and contain ingredients that are sourced from animals or that are harmful to humans and the environment. But that doesn’t mean you have to adhere to the granola eating, no deodorant (and maybe even hairy armpit) stereotype.

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Bill Clinton doesn’t do dairy, but he enjoys drinking almond milk. This and other details were revealed to Wolf Blitzer on CNN as Clinton explained how he’s participating in a study to determine if individuals can reverse their heart disease damage by eating vegan. A little bonus for Bill is that his body is looking as sleek as it did in his high school yearbook.

“I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit,” Clinton said. “I drink a protein supplement every morning. No dairy. I drink almond milk mixed in with fruit and a protein powder. So I get the protein for the day when I start the day out. And it changed my whole metabolism and I lost 24 pounds. I got back to basically what I weighed in high school.”

Bill isn’t quite a vegan, as he still eats fish occasionally.

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