Vegetarian Star

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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Post Punk Kitchen

We already know Isa Chandra Moskowitz makes badass vegan desserts.

With cookbooks like Vegan With A Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, and not to mention that Post Punk Kitchen show, Isa has taken over the vegan world with her delicious recipes and sassy attitude.

Now we know Isa is a badass environmentalist as well.

Grist.org lists her among the top, “badass greens,” saying, “This vegan-punk chef is taking over the world—one decadent, dairy-free delicacy at a time. As an author and co-founder of the cooking show Post Punk Kitchen, Moskowitz is bringing mainstream audiences two flavors of badassery for the price of one. But will punk officially be dead when The Man starts baking vegan cupcakes?”

Hey, when The Man starts baking vegan cupcakes, we will have eventually got the man down, so that’s cool.

To learn more about the woman, who alleged it only took 2 blown kisses from Simon Cowell to get her pregnant, visit Post Punk Kitchen at theppk.com.

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Alice Walker: In Support of Vegetarians, “La Vaca (The Cow)” – More related videos from Asterpix

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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Ah, John Robbins is such a hero.

The man gave up a zillion of a fortune as heir to the Baskin Robbins ice cream company to become an author and speak out against animal product industries that include 31 flavors of dairy.

In Processed People: The Documentary, Robbins states that even non-vegetarians would be turned off by the meat industry if they saw what went on behind closed doors.

“And the degree of cruelty that’s involved in modern meat production is so severe. You don’t have to a vegetarian, you don’t have to be an animal rights activist to find it deplorable – to find it appalling — if you actually see what it is, how far it’s gone, how grotesque. ”

Watch the clip to hear John talk about the horrors of the meat industry.

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Nice little video of Rip Esselstyn, author of the Engine 2 Diet discussing how the firefighters of Austin, Texas’ Fire Engine Company #2 eat vegan during work shifts.

Rip encouraged the guys at Engine 2 to go veg after some were having medical problems like high cholesterol. According to the video, a study showed heart disease kills more firefighters than fire itself. 

Esselstyn’s book, which helped Newsweek’s David Noonan go vegan and lose weight, was written after he was inspired to go veg from his father’s research. His father, Dr. Caldwell Essestyn says, “Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.”

Esselstyn’s entire family eats vegan and it looks like the family favorite food is kale (Watch aunt Esselstyn rip the leaves off that plant, yo)

Best quote of the day starts at the beginning of the video when Rip says, “Real men eat plants and boys meat meat.”

Rip thinks in the next five years eating meat will be such a social disgrace, taking your tenderloin away from the picnic gathering will be equal to asking a smoker not to smoke inside.

While he may be a little overly optimistic, with more people choosing to at least flex or reduce some meats in their diet, Rip’s definitely onto some future trend.

via vegansoapbox.com

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Does anyone even read those suggested lists posted by Amazon.com users? Seems like it’s more for the user to feel highly important, knowing they’ve made a difference by enlightening a potential buyer that Radiohead is very dissimilar to Filter, but both CDs sound great while reading the Natural Herbs book.

Here’s a list you might find helpful, though. Bruce Friedrich at the HuffingtonPost has compiled his essential reads for vegetarians.

Kathy Freston, author of the Quantum Wellness books, including her latest, The Quantum Wellness Cleanse is included.

“In our toxic society, Kathy Freston is pumping in some much-needed fresh air, with chapters discussing not just the importance of eating a vegetarian diet for health, ecological, and spiritual reasons, but also discussing a range of other practices that will inspire readers to be the happiest and healthiest people we can possibly be,” writes Bruce.

The Engine-2 Diet, which inspired Newsweek editor David Noonan to go vegan made the cut. 

Dr. Dean Ornish and John Robbins are also a few of Bruce’s favorites, but he does give warning to the faint of ears who plan to read anything by Skinny Bitch authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.

“…for anyone, really, who enjoys a chatty and irreverent — and I do mean irreverent, so be warned! — tone…”

Read Bruce’s complete list at huffingtonpost.com.

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In a new documentary, Processed People, author Dr. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson explains the very simple reason why he went veg: He didn’t want to see animals slaughtered.

Masson thinks that most people feel this way and if we were forced to kill our own meat, at least 90% of people would be vegetarians.

“There are always people who are willing to kill,” Dr. Masson says. “But you know what’s interesting? In every society, butchers are almost a class apart. It’s as if the person does not want to be associated with the act of killing. I think almost everybody has a bad conscience about it.”

Masson is the author of books such as The Face on Your Plate: The Truth about Food and When Elephants Weep.

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The world’s most famous Skinny Bitch, isn’t stingy when it comes to causes she cares about.

Rory Freedman, co-author of the famous Skinny Bitch series, has offered to donate $5,000 to peta2 in her mother’s honor, but only if you help her out.

Rory will match donations, dollar for dollar, up to $5,000 for every bit you donate to Peta2.

Let’s say you found a machined washed $10 bill in your winter coat after giving it the final cleaning for the season. Like Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers would say, “Give it away, give it away, give it away now.” Rory will donate her $10 (although maybe not as washed out and wrinkled) to match your money!

Mother’s Day doesn’t last year round and neither does this donation challenge. You have three days to dig those coins from the couch cushions. 

Visit the Facebook cause page to donate now!

via peta.org

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