Today is the final segment in this three-part interview with Ashley Gonzalez of PETA. In case you missed Part 1 or Part 2, here's the links: The PETA Interviews, Part 1 The PETA Interviews, Part 2 In this interview we talk about talks about PETA"s mission; animal cruelty in slaughterhouses and on farms; the prevalence of E. coli and salmonella in animals and why this occurs; the detrimental effects of eating dairy foods; and PETA's sexiest … [Read more...]
The PETA Interviews, Part 2
Today I give you the second part of a three-part interview with Ashley Gonzalez of PETA. The other day was part 1 of this interview, and in this interview we carry on from there.
In this interview we talk about PETA's outrageous billboard they put up in downtown Glasgow, Scotland; the health benefits of not eating meat; the relationship between eating meat and climate change - meat production is the number … [Read more...]The PETA Interviews, Part 1
Last week I mentioned that PETA had announced their 2010 sexiest vegetarian male and female over 50 contest, and today I follow that up with the above video, which is the first part of a three-part interview with Ashley Gonzalez of PETA. I've written about PETA in the past - I wrote articles about Mimi Kirk and Julian Winter, the winners of PETA's 2009 sexiest vegetarian female and male, and I also did a three-part interview with Mimi. I've … [Read more...]
Meat – As You’ve Never Seen It Before
For this last article on this weeks-long series on Meat, I'm going to take you on a tour the likes of which you've never seen before. You may never look at a piece of meat the same way ever, ever again. These are macrophotographs of various popular meat products. These photographs come courtesy of photographer [Read more...]
Where’s the Protein? Where’s the Beef?: Part 2
I will now continue from yesterday's article, which was Part 1 of this two-part series. In that article I discussed what are … [Read more...]
Where’s the Protein? Where’s the Beef?: Part 1
Yesterday's article was about vegan bodybuilder Kenneth Williams, and his busting of the myth that in order to build muscle and be an athlete you need to eat animal protein. I wrote this article not necessarily to encourage you to become vegetarian … [Read more...]
Can You Build Muscle Without Meat?
There's this belief that to build muscle you have to eat meat, and to build lots of muscle, you have to eat lots of meat. "There's no way you can be a pro bodybuilder without meat. I've never heard of anyone who doesn't eat protein," says Dexter "The Blade" Jackson, who last year won the premier international bodybuilding championship, Mr. Olympia. Jackson routinely bookends a day of steak and chicken eating with 10 egg whites. ("My metabolism … [Read more...]
The PETA Hijinks
The Sexiest Vegetarian Man Over 50
Yesterday I told you about the organization PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - and the fact that they are known to do various publicity stunts to get their point across. Actually, in yesterday's … [Read more...]
The Sexiest Vegetarian Woman Over 50
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - has a knack for keeping their name in the news. Sometimes controversial, sometimes provocative, sometimes whimsical, and sometimes very serious, they continue to hammer home their message: cruelty to animals in all its forms is inhumane. Now as I pointed out in the first article of this series, [Read more...]
