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Reformed party girl Alexandra Aitken now gets her kicks off yoga and living the vegan lifestyle.
In Posers -Yogastyles of the Movers and Shakers, Alexandra invites several individuals known for their yoga moves to offer their thoughts about the practice and strike a pose to demonstrate their favorite styles.
Names dropped in the veg community like “Skinny Bitch” author Rory Freedman and blogger Chloe Jo Berman have twisted their animal-free parts and allowed Alexandra to tape it.
“I was literally in the middle of nowhere, in a forest in the northern Republic of Congo, visiting people studying chimps. We were out one evening in the forest with pygmy trackers. They picked these orange mushrooms, along with a large leaf from a low-lying plant-I have no idea of its name. They cooked them together; the leaves made a kind of broth. It was absolutely delicious, and the vibrant orange and green colors were so beautiful. And it was definitely vegetarian.”
—-Jane Goodall, in an interview in the print October 2009 issue of Vegetarian Times.
James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore is on a mission to get the UK supermarket Selfridges to take foie gras off the shelves.
He’s so passionate about his cause that Mr. 007 sent a letter to Selfridges’ owner, Galen Weston, offering to buy the entire remaining stock of foie gras if Weston agreed never to restock it again.
If you don’t know how foie gras is produced, it’s not a pretty picture.
Geese are force fed so much food their livers swell and it’s this organ that’s considered a delicacy to some.
Pigging out on fine food-good.
Pigging out when you don’t want to and being eaten afterward-not so good.
Here’s a clip with James talking about his top mission, with some graphic footage of how geese are force fed.
This month she visited the UCLA campus to talk to students enrolled in Sustainable Product and Service Design (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 188).
Heather discussed her environmental efforts from recycling prosthesis to designing her recycled clothing line to the importance of a vegetarian diet on the environment.
“You can’t be an environmentalist and eat beef,” she said and added that 60% of greenhouse gases come from meat production and dairy farming.
“As a witness to the health benefits of veganism, Mills called upon her bodyguard Ron Ayala. A carnivore for many years, he was “converted” to veganism, lost 35 pounds and claims to feel much better.”
“Mills also owns an organic food company which has just produced a plant-based omega-three tablet, thereby debunking the commonly held perception that this popular health food can come only from fish.”
“The students listened with rapt attention and peppered Mills with questions after the lecture. Many were interested in details of her diet and how it could be integrated into societies that suffer from poverty or that rely on meat consumption.”
This may have been the best tuition value UCLA students have gotten all year.
Cause you know they’re not getting what they pay for when using the meal card to purchase the mushy dormitory hall spaghetti.
The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin‘s father, Bob Irwin, is asking China not to import kangaroo meat, as the industry is endangering the animal.
Russia has already banned kangaroo meat imports, and now Australia is looking to Asian countries to export the product, and is expected to start supplying China in the first part of 2010.
“Our kangaroos are in a position at the moment where you would describe their numbers as critical, I believe,” Bob Irwin said. “We are just trying to get the message across to China that it is definitely not necessary to eat kangaroo meat. It is unhygienic for a start and we would not eat their pandas, mate, so why should they eat our kangaroos?”
It is estimated there are 25 million kangaroos across Australia, but some conservationists argue that numbers are far lower.
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Chris DeCinque, front man for the rising Australian band Closure In Moscow sat down with Vegnews.com to discuss his thoughts on being vegan, including the most important question every vegetarian should be able to answer.
Tofu or seitan?
Chris chose seitan, along with soy milk over rice and and vegan sesame prawn toast.
“Back home in Australia you can’t go past vegan sesame prawn toast—to die for. It’s basically deep-fried batter stuffed with “prawn” filling and a layer of sesame seeds on top, cut into the shape of toast. Simple, but amazing.”
Wonder if fellow Australian vegan musician Missy Higgins snacks on that during her home visits?
