Vegetarian Star

Michael Pollan has been named of the most influential people of 2010 on Time Magazine‘s annual list.

Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, who’s criticized the unfit conditions for humans and animals in factory farms, can still be considered a vegetarian’s ally, despite his reluctance to go any further than advocating less meat.

Alice Waters has written his bio:

“Unwilling to accept the food industry’s account of where beef comes from, Michael bought a steer in Kansas to follow the life cycle of a kernel of corn from the laboratory to the feed bin to the restaurant where the beef is served. It’s a harrowing tale, and since the moment I heard him tell it, I have not served corn-fed beef of any kind. I was Pollanized — and I am not alone.”

“In the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. and in his books Food Rules and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael, 55, tells complex stories in an engaging voice. When he speaks live, I’ve seen thousands grip their seats as they realize what our food system has become and how badly we need to fix it.”

The full list of Time’s Most Influential People can be viewed here.

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Prince Charles has been an outspoken proponent of organic farming for some time, and he recently gave the Times Online a glimpse into the Highgrove farm and garden.

He denies the notion that organic farming isn’t a sustainable way to feed people, citing that although organic food costs more, people were paying three times as much for their food 30 years ago.

“Organic production costs more because of the effort and the management and the time that has gone into it,” he said. “Yet 30 years ago people were spending 30 per cent of their income on food, now it’s 10 per cent, so it’s all relative.”

Perhaps their health care costs were cheaper three decades ago too, as now mass produced and processed foods have contributed to obesity and other lifestyle related diseases, the effects of such wreaking havoc on both human and animal health.

“I’ve always felt that if you rely on endless inputs, artificial, chemical, goodness knows what, and if you treat animals like machines, it is not durable in the long term because nature will rebel. If you imagine that dairy cattle will produce quantities of milk that Nature never intended, and feed them on food that Nature never intended them to eat, like these huge feed lots in the United States and elsewhere which I think are an abomination and immoral, you will have a problem with type 2 diabetes. You’re producing cheap food but you’re actually creating more expense elsewhere in the chain.”

Visit the Times Online for more.

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In the words of the dysfunctional Jerry Springer contestant, Social Distortion’s Mike Ness says, “You Don’t Know Me!” (Feel free to insert finger snap.)

That’s what the musician told Spinner during an interview.

“My writing and my stage stuff, that’s just one side of me,” Ness said. “There are so many others people don’t know — being a vegetarian, my spiritual beliefs. There are dimensions to anybody.”

Ness has recorded a PSA for vegetarianism for PETA, so it’s not like he’s hiding in the closet or anything.

Maybe he just needs to speak up a little more. Watch his “Meat’s Not Green” video below.

“Our wildlife, what is left of it, we’re going to lose if we don’t man up and step up and be responsible,” Ness says in the clip.

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The British Beef Association has got a beef with Paul McCartney.

After making comments on a BBC radio show about the livestock industry contributing to climate change, the association demands the BBC give it air time to respond to the allegations McCartney made.

The association claimed this would be in the interests of the BBC’s “reputation for balance and accuracy,” according to Spinner.

McCartney told BBC, “It started off with the United Nations saying the livestock industry is a bigger demon, as far as global warming is concerned, than the whole of the transport industry put together.”

“I wrote to millions of people like Gordon Brown and the leaders of this and that country and saying, ‘Do you think this is an interesting idea?'”

“Since then, it has caught on and I understand that [chef] Gordon Ramsay has said that one meat-free day a week is a good idea and I understand that [fellow chef] Jamie Oliver too has said that it’s a good idea, so that’s why I got involved.

The BBC has not responded as to whether the British Beef Association will get their turn.

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Kelis fired up the fur activists months ago when she replied to PETA’s criticism for wearing a fur hat.

Now she’s back and looking for more publicity she doesn’t deserve.

According to Contact Music, in an interview with NME, when asked if she was “trying to wind them up,” in her original response to them, the singer replied, “Well yeah! I mean, firstly, it’s just far too easy to p**s them off. I mean, give me a break. Get your panties out of a bunch, just relax. I mean seriously? I believe in live and let live, but I feel there are far more important issues with natural disasters and poverty and plague. I’m sorry if a mink is last on my list.”

According to Mercy For Animals, about 26 million mink are killed each year for their fur.

Mink fur farms keep the animals in cages so small, the resulting stress causes neurotic behavior, such as pacing back and forth and they often develop stomach ulcers and enlarged adrenal glands–another consequence of stress.

Kelis doesn’t care about this?

Ah, why are we still even talking about her?

Everybody knows it’s Pamela Anderson‘s vegan milkshake that brings all the boys the yard.

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If everyone did their job, there’d be no need for managers, right?

Vegetarian, conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall thinks getting the world to live greener starts with yourself, whether you’re preaching to friends and family or not.

In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Goodall emphasizes that some people will respond to arguments, but most importantly, they’ll all be watching how you live.

“You really have to start with yourself and then whether or not you reach out to others really depends on whether or not you’re the right person to do it,” Goodall said. “Some people are really good at arguing, and that doesn’t really change peoples opinions. But if you can get into their hearts, that’s what’s so important. Make people think about this question: if we’re the most intellectual animals that have ever walked on this planet, which we are, why are we destroying our only home? I think we’ve lost wisdom, the kind of wisdom where people say, “How will this decision affect people generations ahead?” Now we make decisions based on, “How will it help me now or in next year’s shareholders meeting or next year’s political campaign?””

One way Goodall helps others make a personal difference is through her Roots and Shoots campaign, an international environmental and humanitarian program for youth, with projects focused on improving the lives of people, animals and the environment.

Adolescents participate in activities like cleaning up parks, planting in gardens and volunteering at animal shelters.

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Dr. Oz and Real Age expert Dr. Michael Roizen tackle the question of raw versus cooked in a piece of advice to a reader who wants to know if there are any benefits to eating raw and drinking distilled water.

The doctors are cool with raw, but emphasize that it’s not necessary and sometimes more beneficial if you eat vegetables cooked.

For example, steaming tomatoes brings out the lycopene, an important nutrient in fighting heart disease.

And steaming carrots and broccoli make the cancer fighting carotenoids easier to be absorb by the body.

Steamed vegetables also soak up bile, so the liver has to make more, which helps you get rid of LDL or “bad” cholesterol.

“But the main reason we don’t like extreme diets is that they deprive you of important nutrients,” the doctors answer. “If you’re eating only raw veggies, you’re almost certainly going to run short of protein and vitamin B-12, fast.”

And save the distilled water for ironing clothes.

“As for drinking distilled water, well, it’s usually made by boiling. While that strips out impurities, it also strips out minerals like calcium. Our opinion: Fuggedaboutit, unless you’re drinking four more glasses of non-distilled water a day. Then just do it if you like the taste better.”

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“Mike Tyson says he’s now a vegan. So he now only nibbles on ears of corn.”

–submitted by a reader of the New York Times, on Mike Tyson‘s recent announcement that he’s gone vegan and making light of when Tyson bit a competitor’s ear during a boxing competition. Evander Holyfield can rest easy.

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