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Medium airs tonight at 8PM on CBS guest starring several live pigs.
The episode, Dead Meat, has Patricia Arquette‘s character Allison solving the mystery of a missing animal rights activist and she uses the pigs to get clues about the disappearance.
Make no doubt about it, these actors are some of the brightest on the big screen.
“The pigs worked out really well and a lot of people don’t realize how smart pigs really are,” Greg Wolf, prop master, says in the video.
Researchers have estimated their intelligence to be at least that of a three year old and scientists have also found pigs have passed the mirror self-recognition test, where they understand what a reflection is and use it to check out their environment and find food.
Pigs like mirrors too, huh?
Guess they’re not that different from any other actor in Hollywood.
Hard to believe Bones will complete its fifth season with the finale on May 20th at 8PM on Fox.
Emily Deschanel and Bones creator/executive producer Hart Hanson spoke with journalists over a telephone conference about the show’s evolution over time.
Deschanel is never one to complete an interview with the press without letting fans know she supports vegetarian/animal rights issues, and she gave her thoughts on one of her favorite animal charities, Farm Sanctuary.
She discussed how the organization helped pass Prop 2 in California, which banned keeping certain types of farm animals in cages or crates, and how there’s a similar push in Ohio to get the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board to adopt standards that result in less animal cruelty, more of which can be obtained from OhioHumane.
“So they do political work, they do outreach, they do education, and they also are a sanctuary for animals, and it’s an amazing place to visit. If anyone’s ever in northern California or I guess it’s mid-to-northern California in Orland, California, and then Watkins Glen in New York, they’re beautiful places, and you get to know these animals that are incredible and you wouldn’t want to eat them again. So that’s my little two cents on that.”
The player who Ballard described as a man who used to, “dine on 48-ounce steaks and wash them down with 24-ounce steaks, cradling this tiny vessel of vegetable pulp,” has changed more than his choice of beverage lately.
Ballard says Shaq now orders organic meals, got rid of soda and white bread and cut out almost all red meat from his diet, losing 20 pounds in the process.
“And damn if he doesn’t look relatively slim, his stomach practically a plane beneath his T-shirt, which he pairs most days with baggy sweatpants and perhaps the largest pair of shower sandals ever manufactured.”
Calling foul on the red meat may do more for Shaq than lead the Cavaliers to a championship.
New study results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting suggests people with the highest red meat intake also have the highest risk of developing bladder cancer.
Among the 884 people with bladder cancer and 878 without studied, those that ate the most red meat were 58% more likely to develop bladder cancer.
Those that consumed the most bacon, pork chops, fried chicken and fried fish also had a higher risk.
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John Joseph, punk rocker and author of Evolution of a Cro Magnon and his latest book, Meat is for Pussies, recently sat down for a video interview on physical and spiritual health, food and his book set for release this month.
Diet may go a long way towards your spiritual health, and Joseph insists that if you’re still consuming cheeseburgers to reward yourself after a yoga workout, you might succeed in the arm balance but you’ll never achieve real peace.
“You see people going to raw foods restaurants with leather jackets and fur and all kinds of crap. It becomes another form of vanity. If you’re doing yoga and you’re doing all this stuff and you’re going and eating meat, it’s like trying to light a fire but you’re throwing water on it. You’re never going to progress in your spiritual practice when you’re consuming animals that have been tortured and butchered. It’s just not possible.”
Vegan athletes have one more option for protein powders.
All-Pro-Science, the supplement company founded by Tony Gonzalez, comes in a completely vegan variety, in addition to its whey formula derived from grass fed cows.
The football player who follows a mostly vegetarian diet told ESPN how his trials and frustrations with several other protein powders in the kitchen led to the idea of All-Pro-Science.
“I was mixing a little of this and a little of that. I had to buy so many things. It was expensive and inconvenient,” Gonzalez said. “Also you never know what you’re getting in those, and my body is my moneymaker so I want to know everything I’m putting in it.”
Free of milk, soy, wheat and gluten, the vegan powder contains 23 grams of brown rice, pea and hemp protein, 107 calories, 4 grams of carbohydrates and 1.5 grams of fat per serving.
This chef would actually eat what she made–and encourages others to do the same.
“I had just a small glance of Lisa’s personality and I knew she was a vegetarian,” Adams told Reality Wanted. “I loved cooking a dish that I would love to cook for myself. A mentor chef of mine once said to “cook for yourself first, then cook for your customer and lastly, cook for the press.” That is the key to authentic cooking.”
Adams and her husband are collecting vegetable based recipes for a cookbook or a website with a focus more on plant based diets.
“It is better for the planet, for the animals, and for our health,” she said.
In addition, she’s planning a trip to Washington, D.C. to talk to the Environmental Protection Agency about food.
“The word is getting out to the public that we need to eat differently, and communities are seeing the issues they face with eating,” Adams said, adding that vegetables need to be made “sexy” again.
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 14th, 2010 in Events, Journalists.
Comments Off on Jane Velez-Mitchell Keynote Speaker For NOLA–New Orleans Veggie Fest
Jane Velez-Mitchell will be a keynote speaker at the NOLA Veggie Fest, a vegetarian fest in New Orleans, Louisiana on Sunday May 16th from 12 Noon to 6PM.
Jane is scheduled to speak at 1:00PM.
Besides other speeches by notables in the vegetarian community like Farm Sanctuary’s Gene Baur, veg entrepreneur Josh Hooten, and Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, there will be food samples, demonstrations and music.
Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for kids 12 and under and children under 2 get in free.
Comments Off on Russell Brand “Playboy” Interview–Being PETA’S Sexiest Has Pitfalls
So many Playboy readers know that staying away from artery clogging meat may help prevent impotence, which is bad for, uh, enjoying Playboy, so more than likely if you read Vegetarian Star, you’ve already read Russell Brand‘s interview with the magazine.
Playboy asked Brand how he felt about being voted PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Alive not once, but twice.
“Being the world’s sexiest vegetarian is akin to being the world’s most lovable pedophile. In a way it’s as much a condemnation as it is an endorsement. But I’m proud to be considered sexy, let alone the world’s sexiest in any category. If I were nominated to be the sexiest man on this sofa, I would happily accept that title.”
