Perhaps, in the strictest sense, you’ll reconsider after looking at this chart, which proves how hard it is to avoid animal products in our lives without extensively researching everything we use on a daily basis.
After reviewing possible animal ingredients in food and cosmetics, have you checked your air filters and wallpaper for cow-derived products? Is the plant-based item still okay if it grew in manure-enriched fertilizer? Should you pick another sport besides tennis if you can’t find a racket with vegan strings?
These are just items from a cow, by the way. Pigs, birds and fish creep into a vegan’s life at the most inconvenient times too.
How do you cope with the omnipresence of animal products in everyday items and is there a point where you draw the line and say “enough, I’ve done what I can?”
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Now that Vanilla Ice is into vegetarian and more sustainable eating, he might consider resurrecting his rap career by busting rhymes in favor of organic products, like Yeo Valley (and yes, pronounced “Yo Valley”) Organic in the UK has done to promote its organic dairy.
Featuring sexy, pasture fed cows, good looking gents and an attractive female doing a solo, this Yeo Valley commercial promotes organic milk like it’s the new bling.
Lyrics like, “I’m rollin’ in my Massey (a type of tractor) on a summer’s day/chugging cold milk while I’m baling hay” and “approach is common sense/harmony in nature takes precedence,” explain Yeo Valley’s business principles in a catchy, hip-hop manner.
Australian twin sisters and singing duo The Veronicas posed with some props you’ll probably never find with them on stage–skinned, dead animals representing what’s left after the material obtained for making a fur coat is ripped off them.
“[W]earing fur is unnecessary and unacceptable,” explained Jess Origliasso.
With so many fur-free retailers located at your local mall or shopping center, is it really that hard to choose compassion over killing?
A behind the scenes interview with the sisters can be viewed below.
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“Carrots, beets, celery, fennel and apple. I have carrot and apple in everything. It’s amazing what carrots do to your skin. It gives you a glow.”
—Carl Lewis, Olympic medalist, on what he juices with during an interview he gave to Express Night Out, while in town to inaugurate the Carl Lewis 3K walk/5K run, as part of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Challenge, which highlights sporting events for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Comments Off on Paul–Psychic World Cup Predicting Octopus–Dies
The psychic Octopus who made more friends with fans of Spain’s soccer team than Germany’s this past summer with his prediction of who would win the World Cup, Paul, has passed into the 8-tentacle afterlife.
The manager from the Aquarium Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, said these kind words about the creature:
“We are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life here. We had all naturally grown fond of him and he will be sorely missed. We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine. While this may seem a curious thing to do for a sea creature, Paul achieved such popularity during his short life that it may be deemed the most appropriate course of action.”
Comments Off on Weezer Drinks Soy Milk On Tour, Not In Styrofoam Cups
Weezer is a largely vegetarian and vegan band, so you know the tour rider will be full of requests for good stuff.
The Smoking Gun was able to obtain a copy of the food requests while on tour. Lunch should always offer a “vegan alternative,” and suggestions such as a “vegetarian type soup,” or “vegetarian chili,” and veggie versions of hot dogs, hamburgers and other meat entrees are made.
The boys are attempting to make things eco-friendly, as the demand, “NO STYROFOAM ANYWHERE,” was printed in CAPS. But one team of students at University of California San Diego found that paper cups actually require more energy and more materials to make, release more emissions into the atmosphere and use more waste. Oh, Say It Ain’t So!
