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Candice Bergen Reading Face On Your Plate: The Truth About Food

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 in Actresses, Authors.

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If you’re looking for a book to add to your summer reading list, why not pick up Face On Your Plate: The Truth About Food by Jeffrey Mousaieff Masson.

The book details myths about meat eating and gives reasons why it isn’t natural or healthy.

It’s been on Candice Bergen’s summer reading list and she seems to agree with everything Masson says, calling it, “a guide to ethical eating that basically confirms everything I have felt about eating meat for 35 years.”

Technically, Candice is a self-proclaimed half-assed vegetarian, because she still eats chicken. But wait, chicken is meat.

Maybe Masson’s book will help Candice see chicken faces the next time she grabs her plate.

via wowowow.com

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Candice Bergen’s Half Assed Vegetarianism

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, March 13th, 2009 in Actresses, Not So Vegetarian.

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It’s Friday the 13th! Ooooh, are you scared? Are you superstitious?

Candice Bergen wrote up her fears on wowowow.com, where she revealed meat being really the only one.

However, we already know chicken doesn’t scare her, but at least she’s admitting to her “half-assed vegetarian” ways.

“Something I do have oddly strong feelings about, bordering on the superstitious, is eating any kind of four-legged animal. Also some two-legged, like duck. I will never eat duck. And I haven’t eaten pork or beef (especially veal) for 35 years. This started because I suddenly started to find people carving into these bloody haunches of meat so disturbing. And after walking through the former huge market square in Paris, with hundreds of carcasses hanging side by side, it just repulsed me and I decided to keep my own half-assed vegetarianism. I don’t mention it at dinners. I just eat around the meat. I’m not a pain in the ass, but I cannot eat meat now — even some that looks and smells delicious, like barbecued ribs or prosciutto — without feeling like I am betraying animals.”

“So it is almost a superstition. I guess it’s more a personal idiosyncrasy. A principle I won’t break.”

Maybe chickens should learn to go “quack, quack,” and Candy won’t eat them.

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Candice Bergen Can Reduce Herself To Seitan After Chicken, Fish

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

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When Candice Bergen was asked by wowowow.com, “Are you eating more organic food than you were a year ago?” he response was:

“I haven’t eaten red meat for 40 years. I wish I could give up chicken (except free-range) but then I’m down to fish which seem a) tainted, and b) endangered. By the way, I don’t not eat meat mainly for health reasons but also because I had an epiphany walking through Les Halles at the age of 23 that eating meat is disgusting, arrogant, oblivious and unconscionably cruel. Moving on … I try increasingly to eat only organic veggies and fruit.”

Talk about wowowow! We’re glad she’s aiming for organic fruits and veggies, but does the former Murphy Brown and Boston Legal star actually think she only has chicken and fish left after red meat? What is it about some people that can only use one hand to count the number of protein source available to them? 

After chicken and fish, she’s down to seitan, tempeh, tofu, pasta, beans,yogurt, legumes, nut butters, grains, and not to mention the dozens of fake meats.

Surely, as famous as Candice is, she could even hire a personal vegan chef like Anthony Kiedis did to whip up all things completely vegetarian-not just excluding red meat-in her kitchen.

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