Baseball All Star Goes Veg!

Well the awesome-tastic book Skinny Bitch does it again! Yes, the stealth book by Rory Freedman which is part pop culture, part hard truth has once again enabled an iconoclastic sports star to give up all meat!

You can read the article :HERE:

A quote from the article
"That 6-foot, 260-pound build is powered by wheatgrass, soy and tofu nowadays. No meat. Not even fish."

I find it a bit strange the way they say that, as if fish is not a meat. It's great to give up poultry and beef - no question. However the inference that sea animals are not self aware and alive just as much as chickens or pigs is ludicrous.

However the article redeems itself a bit by including this insightful quote from Fielder, the youngest player ever to hit 50 home runs in a single season last year.

"After reading that, (meat) just didn't sound good to me anymore. It grossed me out a little bit. It's not a diet thing or anything like that. I don't miss it at all."

Thats the key idea which many people don't understand about compassionate living. It's not a diet that you embark on, cheating when you feel sad or if it doesn't work the way you want. It is a lifestyle chosen because of our ability to relate to other living beings.

Incidentally, an old friend also informed us this week that she read the book and has been vegan ever since!

Major kudos to Rory Freedman and Kim Barnoun for putting together a powerhouse reader that joins the ranks of tell-it-like-it-is books such as Animal Liberation (Singer), The China Study (Campbell), Meat Market (Marcus), and World Peace Diet (Tuttle)

Read reviews and buy Skinny Bitch through their website linked above, or at Amazon

We'd love to hear your comments if you've read Skinny Bitch or another book which has enabled you to think differently about your eating habits :)

USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beef

read full article here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23212514/

Yesterday, the USDA issued the largest recall of beef in U.S. history, the latest action in response to The Humane Society of the United States’ groundbreaking undercover investigation of a dairy cow slaughter plant in Southern California.

The recall of 143 million pounds of beef came two days after San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos filed criminal charges against slaughter plant workers caught on video torturing crippled cattle, and two weeks after USDA shut down that slaughter plant.

The recall and cruelty charges show that the public will not stand for such abuses of farm animals, nor for the health risks that come with using "downed" cows for food. But the outrage has not yet prompted a change in federal policies related to the inhumane handling of downer cows and other farm animals.

So today, please take the next step and ask your legislators to co-sponsor the Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act, which would ban any slaughtering of downed animals for human consumption.

The response to the investigation has been felt across the nation -- and millions of people have now witnessed the animal abuse that our undercover investigator so bravely documented. While the exposure is important, the long term goal is for the federal government to step up and meet its responsibility to ensure both food safety and animal welfare. A recall of this staggering scale proves that it's past time for Congress and the USDA to strengthen our laws for the sake of people and animals.