Sunday, April 27, 2008

CELEBRITY VEGETARIANS/VEGANS

A VERY SMALL SAMPLE OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUND A HUMANE AND HEALTHIER WAY OF LIVING.

NATALIE PORTMAN: Israeli and American actress
"I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really, love animals
and I act on my values ... I am really against cruelty to animals."

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: Singer, songwriter, composer, poet,
painter, multi-instrumentalist,
entrepaneur, animal rights activist
"I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens
suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and
emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including
dogs, cats and even primates."

PAMELA ANDERSON: Actress, sex symbol, producer.
"Chickens, pigs, and other animals? They are interesting
individuals with personalities and intelligence. What
people need to understand is if they are eating animals,
they are promoting cruelty to animals."

JOAQUIN PHOENIX: Actor
"Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by
example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends
of mine, people I have never discussed animal rights or
vegetariaism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because
they see it."

ALICIA SILVERSTONE: Actress.
"Since i've gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better
and my taste buds have been opened to a whole
new world. It's one of the most rewarding choices I'v e
ever made and I invite you to jon me in living a healthy,
cruelty-free lifestyle."

RUSSELL SIMMONS: Music and fashion mogul.
"Chickens raised for food today are covered in excrement,
they're diseased, and they are drugged with all sorts of
toxins that you are ingestng if you eat chickens. One
recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has
four times as much arsenic -- yes arsenic, the poison
(which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as
any other meat .... I have been a vegan for many years."

CONSTANCE MARIE: Dancer, actress.
"I stopped eating meat when I was working on the movie
Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five
hours -- if you hold it and feel its little heart beatng for
hours, you just can't think about eating it.

LONNIE RASHID (STAGE NAME,COMMON): Singer, songwriter.
"I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform better, and my voice is
clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I
couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am
proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became
clear."

ALEC BALDWIN: Actor, political activist.
"Everytime we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please
choose vegetarianism. Do it for ... animals. Do it for the
environment and do it for your health."

JAMES CROMWELL: Film and tlevision actor.
"So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes
in a warehouse, chopping off beaks, and tails and genitals
with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns
repeatedley by branding cows, ripping out the teeth of pigs,
and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done for dogs
or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty."

KRISTEN BELL: Television and film actress.
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard tme
disassociating the animals I cuddled with -- dogs and cats,
for example -- from the animals on my plate, and I never
really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my
Brussels sprouts."

ALYSSA MILANO: Actress.
"The world has so much suffering in it already -- choosing
to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the
suffering on a daily basis."

THE DALAI LAMA: Humanist.
"I have been particularly concerned with the sufferings of
chickens for many years. It was a death of a chicken that
finally strengthened my resolve to become vegetarian.
These days, when I see a row of plucked chickens hanging
in a meat shop it hurts. I find it unacceptable that violence
is the basis of some of our food habits."

CASEY AFFLECK: Actor.
"I don't eat meat or any other animal products because
they're unhealthy and they're the product of a violent and
inhumane industry."

TOBEY MAGUIRE: Actor.
"I just never really liked meat. I had a tough time even
eating chicken. I would start imagining what I was eating
and the life of the animals and all that kind of stuff."

CARL LEWIS, ROBERT PARISH, DESMOND HOWARD, BILL PEARL,
KEITH HOLMES, CHRIS EVERT, AND EDWIN MOSES, all
vegetarians: Just a small sample of the many athletes
who practice healthy and humane living.

Beside receiving optimal nutrition from plant foods,
vegetarians also weigh less, on average, and have better
cardiovascular health and more stamima than meat-eaters.

Vegetarians and Vegans can choose from a large variety of
delicious and nutritous foods that make love to the taste buds.

See you all in the gym.

Sunday, April 20, 2008