Dr. Phil recently confronted a man on his show who was convicted of a felony for his involvement with dog fighting.
Apparently, applying the stick of justice did nothing to change this man’s views, as he still believes dog fighting is not a crime and is no different from “football or boxing.”
Hmm…Well, if you don’t count the fact that people play the above sports, not animals.
And they’re usually consenting to this and are aware of the risks.
Plus, football or boxing doesn’t involve fighting to death…then sure, no difference at all!
Dr. Phil isn’t too happy about the Supreme Court decision to strike down a law making the sale of certain videos involving animal cruelty illegal, either.
“I was sick to my stomach. Dogfighting is illegal in this country but selling a dog-fighting video isn’t? We’re seriously going to let people profit from their films of pets being abused? Is there anyone out there who thinks that is even close to being the right thing to do?”
The Humane Society of the United States statistics show there are about 40,000 dog fighters in the United States who call themselves “professional.”
Unlike the rest of the country, these professionals need to experience a permanent recession!
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Shrek Nail Polish
The fourth installment of the Shrek series, Shrek: The final Chapter, has inspired six limited edition nail polishes from OPI.
You’re sure to find a shade that suits you among Funky Dunky, Fiercely Fiona, Who the Shrek Are You?, What’s with the Cattitude?, Rumples Wiggin’, and Ogre-the-Top Blue.
Even better, Peta2 is reporting OPI to be a cruelty-free company that doesn’t conduct tests on animals or ogres.
Bear Grylls will eat anything with legs or tentacles when he’s in the wilderness for one of his Born Survivor episodes, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be microwaving rats or sprinkling salt on woodlice at home.
Or that he enjoys killing animals or wants to tick off activists.
In fact, he’s ran a sanctuary for the same creatures he may consume.
“I love animals,” Grylls told the UK Daily Post. “I’ve run an animal sanctuary up in Wales, and it’s a big part of my life, and wildlife is, and so I’m animal crazy, at the same time I do a show, they’re showing people how to survive if their life really is on the line.”
“We always make sure if we are killing something, it’s killed very fast, and it’s all eaten.”
Less painful slaughter, waste not.
Grylls’ wacky, extreme tactics may be just a good lesson on empathy and environmentalism.
Friday night’s Medium starring Patricia Arquette will have an animal rights twist to it.
After an animal rights activist working undercover at a farm goes missing, clues to solving the disappearance come from none other than a pig that Allison befriends.
Could pigs serve as detectives like dog serve as canine cops?
In one experiment, pigs were taught to retrieve items and they remember doing so three years later.
Or perhaps they’d be better at pushing paper.
Another experiment showed pigs able to move cursors on a computer screen and distinguish previous scribbles from new ones. In other words, the pigs performed a job similar to what many do in their dreary, boring cubicles from 9-5, Monday through Friday.
Mark Bittman took a jog with vegan marathoner Scott Jurek before heading over to his home to eat a meal cooked by the athlete and discuss his diet and career for Bittman’s column in the New York Times.
The pair ate a greek salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, seaweed, a tofu and vegetable dish with miso and cashew sauce and quinoa.
This is what an athlete that races in 100 mile competitions fills up on?
It’s completely normal, assured Jurek, who consumes 1,000 calorie smoothies with nuts, fruits and protein powder, plenty of sweet potatoes, tofu and tempeh combos and beans and grains during training for a big race.
“None of this is weird,” Jurek said. “If you go back 300 or 400 years, meat was reserved for special occasions, and those people were working hard. Remember, almost every long-distance runner turns into a vegan while they’re racing, anyway — you can’t digest fat or protein very well.”
If you think being vegetarian or vegan means iron deficiency and weakness, you need to watch your Popeye episodes because all the sailor man ate was spinach and he never missed a beat!
Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has this to say about meatless diets and iron:
“Iron balance tends to be better on pure vegetarian diets than on other diets. Green leafy vegetables and legumes (beans, peas, and lentils) are rich in a form of iron that is more absorbable if your body needs more iron and less absorbable when your body already has plenty of iron. Avoiding dairy products helps, because they contain virtually no iron and can actually inhibit iron absorption.”
And Dr. Neal Pinckney from The Healing Heart Foundation adds this:
“Most vegetarian diets are high in ascorbic acid (vitamin C), which increases iron absorption up to six times, making the absorption of plant-based iron as good or better than animal-based iron.”
The next obvious step is to double check the list of vegetarian sources of iron to make sure you’re buying the right foods at the grocery store.
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Ginnifer Goodwin "VegNews"
Ginnifer Goodwin is on the cover of the May/June 2010 issue of VegNews Magazine.
The magazine has titled this issue the “Big Love” one, and not just because of the actress’ hit HBO television series. There is also a section on vegan weddings!
“I had written the magazine, my publicist had talked to the magazine, and there was not going to be a way for me to do that cover without wearing the clothes they needed modeled, which of course made me uncomfortable because I was clad in all leather. I would never do a fashion campaign selling leather. I would never accept money to model leather.”
Goodwin took a lot of criticism from the vegan community for agreeing to do the shoot, which she says, “really did break my heart.”
“I took solace in Rory Freedman, a new friend a the time, who made me feel a lot better about the decision to have taken the cover over not having taken it as an opportunity to talk about the issues.”
Read the entire interview in the May/June issue of VegNews on the stands now.
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Glee star Jane Lynch has recorded a new PSA for PETA about spaying and neutering your pets.
The aggressive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester is doing a cheer for the millions of animals in shelters waiting for a home.
“The good folks at PETA asked me to say a few words about the importance of good posture and personal hygiene–but I don’t want to talk about that,” says the 2010 Golden Globe award nominee for Best Supporting Actress. “I want to talk about the 4 million dogs and cats who are euthanized every year because there aren’t enough homes for all of them.”
