Vegetarian Star

Fans that follow Anne Hathaway‘s diet (by reading about it, not snooping through her trash for DNA-laced wrappers you can sell on eBay) know she’s rumored to be an on again/off again vegetarian and vegan.

As of last May, she was roasting chicken. But a recent interview with Metro reveals she’s back on and standing up to the peer pressure of sushi.

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Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Authors@Google discussion covers all the points you would expect from the younger generation’s father of factory farming education on how everyone should reduce their meat intake–from less livestock emitting gases into the environment to the public health crisis being created by the use of so many antibiotics on farms to the cruel and painful ways animals are treated.

You can’t read through Eating Animals, read an interview or listen to a speech by Foer without realizing you should at least partake in Meatless Monday. But what about those who are afraid to call themselves the big “V” word in fear of criticism when they fail?

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Anthony Bourdain and Jonathan Safran Foer have taken a stab at the meat versus vegetarian debate before on Eric Ripert’s Turn and Burn. Now, the chef and author are together again for a debate posted at CBC Radio.

Foer’s primary reason for going vegetarian was because of the conditions of factory farms, citing they go against the values most people hold, whether they’re vegetarian or not.

Bourdain kept referencing to eating meat as a way to welcome other people and experiencing cultures outside your home. So while being vegetarian at home is okay, he’d prefer people not turn down meat dishes as guests.

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“A lot of the reason is the attitude that if you slip up, there is no use trying it anymore. Imagine applying that to anything else: truth telling or being kind to strangers. If every time we slipped up, we said, “I’m done trying,” then what would we be left with?”

–author Jonathan Safran Foer, when asked why people become ex-vegetarians.

Do you agree with his answer?

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Jonathan Safran Foer is on tour to promote his only work of non-fiction, Eating Animals, a book that explores factory farming and vegetarianism.

Foer’s stop at Harvard was accompanied by an interview with the The Crimson, where Foer gave a statistic about who’s going meatless in the college population.

“Eighteen percent of college students describe themselves as vegetarians,” Foer said. “There are more vegetarians than Catholics in college. In college campuses, it is so unremarkable to be a vegetarian. It’s a kind of aspirational identity. That’s the reason to be most hopeful.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer has an interview with Good.is where he recalls a recent poll he read that discovered most people are willing for fork over extra dough for what goes on their fork.

“I just read a recent poll that 70 percent of Americans are willing to spend more money for more ethically produced food. This isn’t San Francisco or New York; it’s the whole country. That’s an amazing number. People care about this stuff.”

The study, more than likely is from the national survey conducted by Context Marketing, which not only found 7 out of 10 people willing to pay more for ethical food, but 70% believe it’s better for the environment, 60% believe it’s healthier and 58% believe it’s safer to consume.

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When author Jonathan Safran Foer appeared on The Ellen Show, a nine year old girl said reading the book with her mother had inspired her to start drinking soy milk and buying cage-free eggs. She also asked if he planned to write a similar book aimed at children. The answer was no, he was only interested in writing fiction from there on out.

Fortunately, there are dozens of books aimed at children and adolescents that focus on vegetarian living and values.

This is Why We Don’t Eat Animals is one that teaches the relationship between food at mealtime and animal suffering and environment issues if that food is meat or dairy.

Other children’s books that contain vegetarian related themes include Hope, based on a true story of a pig found in a dumpster that was rescued and taken to a farm sanctuary. ‘Twas the Night before Thanksgiving features the story of school children who rescue eight would be dinner turkeys during a class field trip to a farm.

These and other books can be found on a list at humaneeducationteacher.org.

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WJW Fox 8 “Hollywood and Dine” feature has Natalie Portman discussing how she’s getting into the local and slow foods movement, frequenting restaurants that use vegetables from their own farm.

The Mossman then makes an eggplant dish he thinks Portman would love.

Better hold off the cheese next time, considering Portman turned vegan for good after reading Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Eating Animals.

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