by Jason on March 23, 2007
Happy Vegan Celebrity Day! We’ve gotten a couple of submissions from other sites and PR people, and since they’re both interviews, we’ve combined their powers, or activated them, depending on whether you’re from the Wonder Twins or Captain Planet generation.
There’s a thing called television that has a show called Bones that stars someone named Emily Deschanel, who happens to be, and this is where the familiarity kicks in, a vegan. Not only that, but she’s convinced that she can turn anyone veg. Her current project is co-star David Boreanaz, who she says now tries to eat vegetarian once a week. That’s a decent achievement, what with the guy having played a vampire for something like 8 years, and they’re not known for loving the soy, I hear. You can read the whole interview here, but really I’ve given away most of it already.
AbeBooks.com wants you to know about their new cookbook section, which contains an interview with Sarah Kramer along with a chance to win an autographed cookbook. AbeBooks has lots of books, but they got their rep by focusing on the stuff that you can’t find anywhere else, which makes it slightly ironic that it’s an internet thing, because remember the olden times before the internet when you would have needed a site like that to find a cookbook about tofu, because the locals’ idea of four food groups was more like four foods?
Now, maybe Sarah’s not a TV star, but Emily’s not a judge in the Tofu Haiku contest, is she? I dare you to submit a haiku with the name “Emily Deschanel” in it. It’s, like, a third of your available syllables, but I’ll check with TVA and send out a copy of Vegan Freak to the best entry received by Monday. Just enter the Tofu Haiku contest through their site.
Dave Noisy sends word from Cannes, probably just via the interweb, because I don’t think his bike can float, but just the same, here’s some news on the upcoming Fast Food Nation movie, which is apparently done and was screened at the big film fest. It looks like it’ll be a Traffic-style look at the food industry, and while I’m kind of looking forward to seeing it, I don’t know if I want to pay the big bucks to see slaughterhouse footage. Of course, I do want my friends to see it, so maybe I’ll arrange a party… Link to interview, Link to trailer.
AimeeLeigh79 sent in a recent interview with Adam Weissman on freeganism. I’m still not sold on the idea, but it’s definitely the most articulate interview I’ve read on the subject (i.e. I was able to get past the whole “I eat garbage” part and pay attention to the arguments). Has anyone here had any experience with this? Ever reclaim something (not necessarily food) from the trash? Link.
AimeeLeigh79 sent in a Salon interview with Peter Singer to mark the publishing, with Jim Mason, of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, which I’ve just ordered. The interview’s a pretty decent bashing of intensive animal agriculture, accompanied by some interesting views on things like the “buy locally” movement. I’ve never read anything by either Singer or Mason, so I’m looking forward to checking the book out. Link.
by Jason on March 18, 2006
Dennis Kucinich’s run for president of the United States had a lot of people excited, what with him being vegan and all. That didn’t work out (in part, I think, because every article about the man mentioned his veganism, which is politically crippling but great for outreach), but as an anonymous submitter notes, there’s always Slovenia: their president, Dr. Janez Drnovsek, is vegan. Link.
by Jason on October 15, 2003
There’s a story over at Kuro5hin by a guy who’s giving up vegetarianism after an 8 year stint. His reasons are his own, which I guess is why they don’t mean a lot to me, but anyway, he defends vegetarianism a fair bit in his “exit speech”, and mostly I just enjoyed this quote: “While there are some militant vegetarians, most don’t think they’re superior, or even give a damn that you’re eating meat, that you enjoy it, or think you could never live without it. Most won’t say ‘moo’ when you’re having that steak or hamburger. They are not a threat, so why do some people feel the need to justify their choices? Can’t we just ‘eat and let eat’? Most of the comments I heard were stupid, ignorant and boorish. Like telling the only black person at a party that you know some black people and even have some black friends, telling a vegetarian about how you could never give up meat (maybe even thought of it) just isn’t kosher.” Not that that ever happens to me. Every time I go out for dinner. Nope.
by Jason on September 5, 2003
Veganmama conducted an interview with a mother of vegan quintuplets and thought we should know about it. Yeah, quintuplets. Five kids, same birthday, all vegan. Vegan kids, five of them, all vegan. Kids that are vegan. Numbering five. Quintuplets, like twins times 2.5, eating plants. Vegan quintuplets. Interesting reading that could help put your food issues in perspective.
