Paul McCartney has been the celebrity ambassador to vegetarians for as long as I’ve been alive. Long before it was cool to be vegetarian, he was making it look cool. Now his daughter, Mary McCartney, is following in his footsteps with a wonderful new book called simply “Food” and she spoke with the New York [...]
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The Vegetarian Lifestyle Gets a New Image
I became a vegetarian long after the days when all vegetarians were considered “hippies” but before vegetarianism was popularized by movie stars and celebrity chefs. I remember how unhip it was to be a vegetarian not too long ago. But vegetarians have a new image and so does the vegetarian diet. In a great new [...]
New Study – Vegetarians Have a Lower Risk for Ischemic Heart Disease
We all know that eating a vegetarian diet is better for our overall health and in particular our heart and arterial health. But FoodConsumer.com just published an article about a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which says that vegetarians have a much lower risk of ischemic heart disease. Ischemic heart disease [...]
Bill Gates Says Vegetarian Meats are Our Nutritional Future
I’ve posted several blogs recently on the new vegetarian “meats” that are available and how vegetarian meats are expected to trend over the next few years. This weekend, I read on article on Ecorazzi.com (still smile every time I read that name) summarizing a blog post from Bill Gates on the topic of vegetarian meats. [...]
Washington Post Food Editor Goes Vegetarian
I always enjoy hearing about well-known people who adopt the vegetarian lifestyle, especially if they’re well-known for their work with food. This weekend, on Boston’s NPR radio station, WBUR, Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan “came out” as a vegetarian and they’ve posted part of their interview with him on their website. It’s a great [...]
The Top Vegetarian Food Trends of 2013
Every year, all of the various foodie-interest groups release their predictions of trends in the coming year regarding what’s going to be on our supermarket shelves, on restaurant menus and on people’s plates. I found a really interesting article today on a cool blog called the MFABlog or Mercy For Animals Blog. The article, called [...]
And Now PETA Brings Us the Sexiest Vegan Contest!
I’ve posted a few times about PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian and Sexiest Vegan Contests and I also had the pleasure of announcing last year’s creation of the Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door, which allowed real people like you and me to be nominated. Now, PETA has just announced its new Sexiest VEGAN Next Door and you have [...]
What Exactly is a Paleo Vegetarian?
The Paleo diet would seem to be completely incompatible with the vegetarian lifestyle, but there is more and more talk of Paleo vegetarians in our midst. Since I don’t know too much about such a creature, I did some investigating. It turns out, there really is such a thing. One terrific post that I found [...]
Vegetarians 30% Less Likely to Have Heart Disease
This is probably not very shocking news to most vegetarians, but a new study released this week shows that vegetarians are over 30% less likely to have heart disease. It’s been all over the Washington Post, the news channels and several medical sites and I got an article about it in my inbox from Bloomberg.com [...]
Vegetarian Humor With a Point
Anyone with a cause can fall into the trap of being overly serious. Many of MY posts have been either pretty grim or pretty angry. But the truth is that a little well-placed and well-meaning humor can go a long way to promote a cause, especially to those that aren’t “believers.” I found an article [...]
