When First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground for her organic garden on the South Lawn of the White House, everyone with an interest in natural, sustainable food choices cheered.
But if it seems too good to be true, it probably is and recent news has revealed the garden of organic Eden is tainted with non-organic sludge.
According to the Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found “highly elevated levels of lead” due to sewage used as fertilizer.
And just who is to blame for the contaminated fertilizer?
Democrats would like to blame a Republican conspiracy, but the perpetrators were none other than Bill and Hillary Clinton!
When the Clintons inhabited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, their gardening team used sewage sludge for fertilizer.
And since the sewage sludge has seeped into the ground of Michelle’s garden, it cannot truly be certified with organic status.
“Try choosing a cheese alternative today to replace your regular one. You will be surprised how great some of them taste, my fav, vegan rella.”
“Try using Almond Milk today instead of cow’s milk today. It is a healthy alternative and tastes GREAT!!”
Sweet deal, Bob!
Wouldn’t it be incredibly cool if The Biggest Loser had contestants do veg diets while they were losing weight?
Between Bob’s recommendations for milk and cheese substitutes and Jillian Michaels almost being completely vegetarian except for a few fish here and there, they could really show the world the best body is a veggie body.
If you’re in the New York or Los Angeles area, you have the opportunity to see the breathtaking documentary, The Cove this weekend.
The Cove covers the annual killing of over 2,500 dolphins in a cove at Japan’s Taiji, Wakayama.
Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos, the documentary was filmed secretly in 2007 using underwater microphones and hidden cameras disguised as ocean rocks.
It all started when former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, who captured dolphins in the same cove during the 1960s for the movie Flipper, started to realize that dolphins were intelligent creatures that weren’t being served justly when held in captivity.
Eventually, O’Barry joined forces with Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society to travel to Japan and expose the bloody industry of dolphin meat.
Visit the official website of The Cove and learn more about what you can do to help dolphins, both in captivity and those being slaughtered for meat.
A vegetarian will play a vampire in the third installment of the Twilight series, Eclipse, but not one of the “vegetarian” vampires.
Bryce Dallas Howard has been cast as Victoria (previously played by Rachelle Lefevre), a mean-spirited vampire who’s out to get Bella.
Howard was inspired to go vegan by Joaquin Phoenix, but went back to vegetarian during her pregnancy.
Eclipse is scheduled to begin filming in August.
The Twilight films are based on a novel series by author Stephenie Meyer, and feature the Cullen family, a clan of “vegetarian” vampires who feast on animals instead of people.
One of the main characters and love interest of vegetarian vampire Edward Cullen, Bella (Kristen Stewart), is a real vegetarian who likes Gardenburgers.
With all the bad publicity Barack Obama has gained in the eyes of vegetarians because of his burger joint hopping habit, the President of the United States now has a chance to redeem himself.
People for the Ethical Treatments of Animals (PETA) has asked Obama to go vegetarian for one day of the week by participating in Meat Free Mondays.
In a letter written to the president, PETA’s president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk illustrates how former president Harry Truman called on people to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help save grain and feed the hungry in Europe.
Now, Obama has the opportunity to help both people and the planet by initiating a similar program at the White House.
“Sir Paul McCartney is in town this weekend and has launched an initiative called “Meat-Free Mondays” to help stave off climate change, lessen the suffering of animals, and promote a diet healthier than the artery-clogging, obesity-inducing one that is a major cause of the soaring health-care costs and worker absenteeism in this country.”
“If you institute this program in the White House, it will be a giant step forward in transforming it to a green house, and it will set a wonderful example for people nationwide-or worldwide-who look to you for leadership when it comes to a kinder, environmentally friendlier, and more health-conscious approach to life.”
Read the entire letter asking Obama to participate in Meat-Free Mondays at peta.org.
According to the USDA, the average American farmer is 55 years of age or older.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t youngins out there.
And hot ones at that!
Jason Mraz is featured in Mother Nature Network’s “40 Farmers Under 40,” great profiles of young, rosy cheeked agrarians who might take the ipod filled with Greenday and Coldplay with them to the field to harvest crops.
The 32 year old raw vegan singer-songwriter has an avocado garden, which sits on five acres in San Diego, California.
Jason eats his share of 2-4 avocados a day and if you recall us telling you, created a dessert made with avocados and chocolate, the chocomole.
“I do sell my avocados,” Jason told CNN last year. “I mean, they don’t have a sticker on them that say that these are from the Mraz Farms, but I moved into an area that all of us are avocado farmers.”
Visit mnn.com to read who the other 39 farmers under 40 are, which include contributors to noted publications such as the Huffington Post and grist.org and an actor in a Peabody-award winning film.
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Writer, producer, and actor Mike White, who’s film credits include Nacho Libre and School of Rock, has recorded a brand spanking new vegetarian testimonial.
Mike’s “piggy-looking” dog is one of the reasons he decided to stop eating meat and become vegan.
“I would look at him and I’d think, ‘You know, I cannot eat pig anymore’. And besides is my dog really all that different from a pig on a factory farm? They both have their own lives and big personalities and most importantly, the same capacity to feel pain.”
“Vegans are all coke-sniffing, cigarette-smoking faux socialists who listen to music that has no melody at all, so f*ck them.”
—Roseanne Barr, in an interview with Heeb magazine.
