We’ve covered so much veggie athlete news lately, we’re on a roll and should head to Vegas!
Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Pat Neshek recently spoke with the Minneapolis Star Tribune where he revealed he’s “willing to take the heat” for his veganism.
“I get that all the time,” Neshek said. “Like Gardy [manager Ron Gardenhire], he’ll make fun of me and stick a hot dog in my face and say, “You want to eat this?” A lot of guys are curious. Most of the time, there’s a lot of guys that make fun of you.”
No problem for Neshek, as he knows he’s putting the good stuff down that ultimately will make his game better.
Besides, who cares about the guys? He’s got a woman at home to answer to.
When he first met his wife, he was heading for a McDonald’s and the future Mrs. Neshek said, “I can’t believe you eat that stuff!” This comment, along with reading The China Study, which links a meat based diet to diseases, prompted Neshek to work on his steakouts as much as his strikeouts.
Five years later, the Mrs. Neshek is still helping Pat with his veg game.
“My wife, she’s an excellent cook, so that’s the main reason I can pull this off,” he said.
Visit startribune.com to learn what Pat’s typical breakfast consists of and read the entire interview.
When we heard Sarah Silverman left the meatballs off her spaghetti, we cheered even though we didn’t think she was a vegetarian.
Now, some gossip has come in that Sarah has said she doesn’t eat meat and was instructing others how to heat up veggie meatballs.
A reader named Anon left us this tip:
“Sarah’s a vegetarian. She was on cam (on her twitter account) with her friend Steve Agee and confirmed she doesn’t eat meat.”
“Oh, this was while giving a cooking demonstration on how to heat veggie meatballs your mum makes for you, in the microwave.”
She must be rubbing her good food karma on Jimmy Kimmel (we think they’re together, you never know), seeing as he’s been totally putting down pork and other meat eating on his show recently.
We searched Sarah’s Twitter and found some mentioning of Steve Agee and a video channel, but haven’t found the broadcast yet, so we’ll treat this as gossip.
But we’ve got a feeling the news is coming out soon!
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The votes are in! Tonight we’ll find out if Adam Lambert or Chris Allen is crowned the next American Idol.
Judge Kara DioGuardi has been crowned in her own right, receiving wings to wear for PETA’sAngels For Animals campaign.
Angels For Animals is meant to remind pet owners how dogs and cats (and any other pets, for that matter-pot belly pigs, anyone?) should be treated.
Fresh food and water every day, a clean spot to take care of Mother Nature’s duties, exercise, socializing, and lots of L-O-V-E are what Kara and PETA hope you’ll give your four legged child or friend.
Hey, if you really need to set it in your head, there’s a petition you can sign to remind yourself to do these things daily, as well as a video interview of Kara with her dog Tikki.
In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Dark Night Terminator dude Christian Bale has admitted to some less than vegetarian ways.
Bale failed to pay his membership dues to the veg club shortly after completing filming for American Psycho.
The bodybuilding and unbuilding you’ve done for your roles is alarming—the former all the more so for its being accomplished without any animal protein.
Actually, I’m in and out of the vegetarianism now. But yeah, the majority of the building up you’re talking about was done when I was still a vegetarian.
Dietary reasons? Or something to do with the character?
I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.
Argh! Life is beautiful, but not so much for animals when Christian gets his vampire cravings for bloody steak.
However, a little bit of veggieness snuck its way on a recent episode,Red John’s Friends.
After “The Mentalist” Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) helps an innocent man named Jared get out of jail, the agents drive away with the newly freed ex-prisoner, planning to utilize him to help them catch a serial killer, Red John.
The group gets slowed down as they drive through a huge mob of animal rights protesters with anti-fur signs.
Coincidence? Or is Owain putting his two cents in for suggested scenes?
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 18th, 2009 in Chefs.
Comments Off on Nigella Lawson Veg Benefits: Weightloss, Hubby Actually Eats Food
British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is just as known for her curves as she is for her cream pies.
But lately some have become concerned she’s been downing one pie too many and are afraid she’ll go from pleasantly plump to piggishly porky.
Lawson’s been a good sport, though, reportedly going to a personal trainer. Her fans are hoping she won’t go overboard. Or start eating like her vegetarian husband. From watoday.com.au:
“I hope she doesn’t turn into a size zero waif,” wrote a certain Mise, from Limerick, Ireland. “Nigella’s curves are what make her.” Another hoped she wouldn’t become “old and haggard” like husband Charles Saatchi, who turned vegetarian, swore off his wife’s food and lost 25 kilograms in the process.
What??!! Nigella’s man won’t eat her Anglo-Asian lamb salad, pancakes with wafer bacon and maple syrup, or Bulgar wheat salad with pink seared lamb (what’s up with all these baby animals, anyway?)?
If Nigella would go veg, she sure would make things easier at home (honey, just take the lamb out of the Bulgar wheat), she’d shed those few unwanted pounds, plus have a better chance of living a long, healthier life with cabbage lovin’ Charles.
Not to mention a hot, one on one, cooking show she could team up with Heather Mills and do. Or maybe even a three-way. Pamela Anderson has expressed interest in a bikinis on the beach veggie TV series.
Nice little video of Rip Esselstyn, author of the Engine 2 Dietdiscussing how the firefighters of Austin, Texas’ Fire Engine Company #2 eat vegan during work shifts.
Rip encouraged the guys at Engine 2 to go veg after some were having medical problems like high cholesterol. According to the video, a study showed heart disease kills more firefighters than fire itself.
Esselstyn’s book, which helped Newsweek’s David Noonan go vegan and lose weight, was written after he was inspired to go veg from his father’s research. His father, Dr. Caldwell Essestyn says, “Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.”
Esselstyn’s entire family eats vegan and it looks like the family favorite food is kale (Watch aunt Esselstyn rip the leaves off that plant, yo)
Best quote of the day starts at the beginning of the video when Rip says, “Real men eat plants and boys meat meat.”
Rip thinks in the next five years eating meat will be such a social disgrace, taking your tenderloin away from the picnic gathering will be equal to asking a smoker not to smoke inside.
While he may be a little overly optimistic, with more people choosing to at least flex or reduce some meats in their diet, Rip’s definitely onto some future trend.
