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Babies is a 2009 French documentary chronicling the lives of four children in different countries and cultures, from birth until one years of age.
The stars of Babies are Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia; Mari from Tokyo, Japan; Bayar from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia; and Hattie from San Francisco, USA.
Hattie is the child of two vegetarian parents who are very much into green living. Obviously their diet and lifestyle sets them apart from the majority of Americans, and in an interview with LilSugar, mom Susie Wise indicated the film has inspired her to allow her child to grow up thinking even more freely.
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Reality TV can be tough on a veggie, but one Big Brother contestant is hoping to beat her odds of being forced to consume either mushrooms or sardines everyday to survive, as she’s secured a place in the home for the UK television show’s final cycle.
Yvette is a medical student who likes to be called “Sunshine” and who’s taking a year off to do more studying–in the area of medical journalism.
Although it may be joking, the Daily Mail said her self-described diet was one of “crisps and bread.”
Here’s hoping the med student will give herself better orders and eat a more rounded diet than starch, at least when she finishes her Big Brother stint. Who knows? Maybe the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine could use another veggie minded doc on their team as they educate the public on the benefits of a plant based diet in preventing common medical problems like diabetes and heart failure.
Comments Off on Adam Gardner Of Guster Has Wife To Thank For Eating Vegetarian
Guster’s Adam Gardner is the face of the Green Music Group’s latest challenge to eat local, and while he’s one of the leading forces behind this campaign, he has his wife to thank for greening another area of his diet.
“It was really my wife’s environmentalism that rubbed off on me!” Gardner told Good. “Once we started living together, suddenly I was eating vegetarian, composting, walking everywhere, running the laundry machine in off-peak hours. It was the dichotomy between how I was living at home and what life on the road was like with my band (gas–guzzling tour bus, trash all over the place at the end of a show, awful fast food, etc.) that sparked the idea for Reverb in the first place.”
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Sharkwater
Sharkwater, a documentary about the practice of finning, recently premiered in Hong Kong. The film follows the journeys of director Rob Stewart, as he fights poachers and reaches out to others in the activist community like Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd Conservation. The DVD release of the film is also available in the U.S.
During finning, a shark’s fins are cut off while it is still alive, and the shark is thrown back into the ocean to die. Hawaii has recently become the first state in the U.S. to ban this “delicacy” which is often made in the form of soup.
One of the oldest magazines featuring articles related to diet, recipes and health, Good Housekeeping, has released another vegetarian cookbook, Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking: 225 Recipes Everyone Will Love.
Good Housekeeping’s latest is said to feature a variety of meatless recipes from wraps, sandwiches, soups and casseroles and includes a chapter designed for families with only one vegetarian so the meals can incorporate meat.
Kinda silly to do for a vegetarian cookbook and you would think the lone veggie in the family chapter would be an opportunity to introduce a variety of meat substitutes or plant based substitutes like seitan.
At any rate, you may purchase the collection for around $25 retail and MSNBC has included two sample recipes on their site for what you might find inside.
Green Music Group is a group of musicians, industry leaders and fans dedicated to spreading the environmental news throughout the industry.
Every two weeks on their website, Green Music Group, will present a challenge to fans and from now until June 18, Guster is challenging their fans to eat local at least once a day.
Lead singer and founding member of Green Music Group, Adam Gardner, speaks in the video.
“I feel personally connected to this challenge because I just recently joined a community supported agricultural program. And it was just amazing how much better the food tasted. The fact that I knew who was growing it, I met the farmer and knew that I was supporting that local farmer and that local economy just felt good to do.”
Gardner’s got a point about the taste. Compare fresh, local, crisp green beans to those brought halfway across the country or frozen or in a can.
No competition!
Once you try eating local, we promise, as Guster would say, “Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa,” it will “never be the same again.”
Comments Off on Meatless Mouthful–Russell Simmons Says Do The Happy Drugs
“It may take a little effort for the first few weeks. Then you’ll start getting used to it and you’ll find more and more fun things to eat. ’Cause food’s a drug, and you gotta do the happy drugs rather than the sad drugs, you know what I mean?”
