Alicia Silverstone is on a mission: She wants to convert the world to a vegan diet with her new book, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet.
What’s high on her list of foodie foes?
“Remember, dairy was designed to make little baby calves turn into 400 pound cows, so that’s what it does to you,” she revealed at her NYC launch party Oct. 9. “It makes you fat.”
“The truth is, there is a list of foods that will make you fat and make you sick and hurt you and make you older and tired and slowly deteriorate.”
“A vegan diet, on the other hand,” the Clueless star, 33, explains, “will nourish you and make you vibrant and feel your best.”
And Alicia, who’s married to vegan rocker Christopher Jarecki, gets to the bottom of her dietary regime.
“Most people aren’t pooing,” Alicia says. “I know two girls in my life who are good friends, who were not pooing, but now they’re pooing ’cause I helped them. I taught them how to poo.”
What a load of POO
She sounds sooo intelligent. People who try to convert people to anything because they think they know best annoys me.
I hate when people are like this. It’s great that she’s vegan, but DON’T push it on me. Everyone has their own personal choices.
So what exactly what is it that she wants the world to do? Allow all animals to breed/live unchecked? Either we kill them to eat them, or we kill them to keep them from overbreeding themselves into starvation-extinction. Not to mention that huge populations of unchecked wild animals cause additional problems such as loss of our own food supplies due to them eating the fruits, vegetables & grains, pestilence problems due to fleas, parasites, etc., or even traffic accidents/fatalities from larger animals (such as deer) wandering onto the roads and highways.
I love to eat meat…! So do not tell me want I could eat and not eat and I well eat my meat…!
Angela, factory farm animals hardly constitute a “natural” population. They are specifically overbred to be murdered for “food.” A good biology lesson would be in order for you.
Here is a good video on the subject of meat: http://meat.org
i’m not sure where she gets the idea that milk will only make you fat. you don’t get adequate calcium and vitamin d from vegetables. granted, adults shouldn’t be drinking WHOLE milk, but it’s a good way of getting those minerals/vitamins needed. while i disagree with the way animals are treated in factory farm settings – and in general – i think alicia needs to get off her high horse and talk to someone with a medical degree, not just someone who thinks they know everything simply because they’re vegan.
Calcium requirements can easily be met by eating green leafy vegetables, nuts, and seeds. A cup of collard greens has the same amount of calcium as a cup of cow’s milk. also, you get plenty of vitamin d from the sun.
Alicia is messing with nature
Eating meat is natures way of natural selection – killing off the people too selfish and too stupid to see that the modern meat based diet is not only killing themselves it’s killing the planet.
Nature has dished out heart disease, diabetes, diabetes, cancer, arthritis , osteoporosis, Altzhiemers, stroke and constipation to meat eaters.
Nature knows best – survival of the fittest – make way for the homo-superior
Don’t mess with Nature’s way Alicia!
People who think they need excess calcium and protein to be healthy need to read The China Diet by Professor Emeritus of Cornel, T. Colin Campbell. People who think they don’t get enough of these things from greens, legumes, and grains are getting their information directly from the animal agribusiness who buy air time, post on these boards, and even give scholarships and funding to scientists to fund bogus studies.
Read real studies. Learn how to get real information. Read Campbell, Francione, Watson, reports from the United Nations. Wake up. Your excessive meat consumption has not been the norm through human history and is today the leading cause of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chloesteral, world poverty, global warming (*yes, global warming*) and is also exceedinly cruel to animals.
If you think you need to eat dairy and meat for food to taste good, then you clearly haven’t tried vegan dishes from Thailand, the Caribbean, India, Ethiopia, and of course China, Japan and Korea. (Curries from these cultures are often made from coconut milk.)
And there are delicious desserts from Purely Decadent and many other companies that are widely available and cruelty-free.
Consider that there is a reason Darwon, Ghandi, Eihstein, DiVinci, Shelly, Shaw, Chavez, and Coretta Scott King were vegetarian or vegan. Any smart person who applies logic to this issues will realize that slaughtering and torturing aniamls is unreasonable and immoral when not necessary for survial. In fact, given the realities of modern meat and dairy consumption and factory farming, eating “animal prducts” is overtly deterimental. And the stubborn ignorance about this overwhelming.