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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities today.

• Alice Walker (66)

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Alice Walker recently blogged about her experience with a naturopath doctor and natural treatments, one of which included medicine made from pigs’ eyes.

In discomfort, Alice, a vegetarian, tried the remedy for awhile, but eventually couldn’t block out the images of the animals she was putting in her body.

“One time she gave me a remedy made from pigs’ eyes, but that was as extreme as it got, and she had misgivings, being, I think, vegetarian. I took the pills for a while, in desperation, but couldn’t keep it up because of a mental image of a pig whose eyes twinkled at me. When I told her what had happened, she chuckled and said, Well, drink lots of water.”

The debate over the use of animals for medicine will probably never end until we have found a way recreate any animal “part” or devised a method for testing the effects of pharmaceuticals on humans without using laboratory animals.

Some are absolutely against any animal use or testing in medicine, while others keep their morals by ensuring they purchase pills manufactured without gelatin.

Where do you stand on the issue of animals and medicine?

via alicewalkersblog.com

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Poet Alice Walker said she’s glad she doesn’t like to eat cows since she grew up on a dairy farm and grew to love every feature of them, including “their smell,” which she jokingly says is because “they’re vegetarian and that helps.”

One of Alice’s friends wanted to stop eating meat, but found it hard because it seemed foreign given the fact he grew up around so much meat eating. Alice wrote the poem “La Vaca (The Cow),” to help him understand what vegetarian meant from the cow’s point of view.

“Look into her eyes…And know…that she does not think of herself as steak,” the poem goes.

Watch Alice tell her story and recite the poem to a crowd at Emory University.

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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
—-Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker, best known for her novel, The Color Purple, which was eventually made into a movie and a musical.

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