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...]
Sustainable/Green Living: Living Light on Mother Earth
An Interview with Mimi Kirk, Part 2
Today I continue with the second part of a three-part exclusive interview I recently did with Mimi Kirk, who is no ordinary 71 year old. In 2009, when she was 70, Mimi was voted by PETA as the sexiest vegetarian female over 50. If you didn't see the first part of the interview with Mimi Kirk, don't forget to review it by clicking on this link: An Interview with Mimi Kirk, Part 1 The interview was conducted over skype with only one technical … [Read more...]
Living the Good Life, and the Idle Life
I continue on with this series What Would a Low Density Lifestyle World Look Like? with an interesting take on living a relaxed, very Low Density Lifestyle life, courtesy of English journalist Tom Hodgkinson. This is an interview that comes courtesy of the website Good. Good is a … [Read more...]
The Swine Flu: Where Does It Come From?
The Meat You Eat: Steroid Use in Livestock
In yesterday's article, I discussed the rampant use of antibiotics with livestock - primarily used as a tool to help them grow larger and bigger - and how 70% of all antibiotics used in the U.S. is for livestock use. But that's only half the story of the drugging of livestock: antibiotics aren't the only drugs given to livestock to help them grow … [Read more...]
The Drugging of Livestock
There are many reasons to consider cutting down or cutting out eating meat. Over the course of this series I’ve talked about the health and environmental ramifications of a meat-based diet. And of course, cutting down or cutting out meat consumption plays a key role in living a Low Density Lifestyle. But one of the detrimental health … [Read more...]
