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[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:10:46 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments) http://veganbits.com/anthony-bourdain-is-not-a-vegan/
And the run-in occurred on Larry King Live. Here's an interview with JSF describing what happened: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/60160/

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[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?| More from Patrick Kwan] ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:37 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
Moving people in the right direction is better than not moving them at all, or telling them it's all or nothing. 17 years ago I went vegetarian and 1 year later I was vegan -- I didn't go from 0-60MPH and neither did most other vegans I know.

JSF is definitely reaching a wider audience. He's making people think about the issues. He's making people think about their food choices. He's making people look at a problem most can easily avoid. I wouldn't give a fig if he was a cattle rancher from Montana -- if he can can make people confront an issue that is well hidden from the spotlight, kudos to him.

[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:47:42 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
seeing him speak, in the context of the bigger issues he was talking about, whether or not he had cut out the last eggs and dairy from the local farm he says he gets them from seemed pretty far down on the list of important things to talk about. and i think this because he has not said veganism isn't the goal. if he was saying veganism was a bad idea or he had no intention of ever going there, i'd be way more concerned than i am with someone who is clearly on the path. weren't we all in different places on this path?

our concern with personal behavior (with one single person's personal behavior) over the bigger issues he's talking about bother me. if we ask him why he's not vegan in a room full of non-vegans, is that a better question than "can you explain how the slaughtering of animals from the "friendly" farms varies or doesn't vary from the slaughter of factory farms?" which one gets useful information into the room and which one scratches our personal itch?

if NBC news did a week long special report covering exactly what foer is covering, would we be celebrating or would we be concerned whether the whole news division had given up every animal product in their diet?

[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:39 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments) left CNN for FOX in 2008. This article was written March 25, 2007. Do your own research.

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[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:29:30 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
To muddy this whole matter, Foer was quoted in the Globe and Mail yesterday saying "I don't eat eggs or dairy, but my kids do. I don't think it's fair to ask a three-year-old not to have birthday cake at parties." Assuming he wasn't misquoted, he's either oversimplifying for a mainstream press interview or has emphatically changed his diet since Drummond interviewed him. (My bet's on the former.)

(Thanks to reader Ryan for bringing this to my attention via Twitter.)

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[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?| More from Cat Clyne] ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:49 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments) really understood about abuse of animals that is continually perpetrated by the egg and milk industries. Once I got to this point of "understanding", I saw how much of a hypocrite I'd been in condemning animal abuse whilst still condoning it by my consumption of eggs and dairy products. I wrote a blog post about this journey called "Are Vegetarians Hypocrites Or Was I The Only One? ("http://veganmaven.com/blog/are-vegetarians-hypocrites-or-was-i-the-only-one").

As for JSF, I am about a quarter way through his book and, to me, his writing style and the evidence he provides results in a compelling argument for veganism that many in the mainstream will read and relate to. I think it has the potential to make a significant contribution for the cause of veganism. However, I agree that it is inconsistent (and a bit puzzling) that he would write this powerful stuff and then not go vegan himself.

I'm curious, does anyone know what is he still doing/eating that makes him vegetarian rather than vegan? (Has he said that he is still consuming eggs/dairy/honey; wearing fur/leather/wool, etc?) I'm really asking, how far along his "transition" to becoming vegan is he?

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[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:14:03 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
There's no point in being a veg snob and expecting absolute ethical purity from people, because if you do, you'll spend your life depressed and hating humanity.

Look, it took me 50 years to commit to being a vegan, after many transitory experiments in veggie living. I can only hope it doesn't take Foer as long as it took me.

[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:46:26 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
beanmail, read the list of things i said he said last night to a room full of non-vegans. then ask yourself, beyond your own not thinking he's pure enough, how that can amount to a negative?

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[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:39 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
Wow, what does this mean?

[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?] ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:09 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
We've got a hamburger-inflated Al Gore not wanting to offend the big bucks behind animal agriculture.

PETA continues to flaunt an array of celebrities who may or may not be vegan.

Heck, we even have bonafide vegans (Zooey Deschanel) and vegetarians (Natalie Portman) going on mainstream cooking shows and making ridiculous statements like, "All I ever get to eat are raw vegetables" and "It's hard for vegetarians to get protein", respectively.

We've all heard the same old story about how the word vegan is "scary", "non-inclusive", and therefore alienating. Yep, the pesky truth can be that way. And no, you don't get to say that you're a vegetarian AND you eat fish. FISH are NOT VEGETABLES!

We've also all heard the tiresome rant/excuse of how "it's just not reasonable to expect that [insert population generalization here] can go vegan". Why? Because it's not as easy as stuffing our faces as we race through a drive-through?

Ultimately, the problem with all the media buzz about someone like JSF is that it makes omnivores feel better about themselves just for "knowing" this information, rather than doing anything about it. Next week they'll be trying out Michael Pollan's holiday lamb recipe.

[Read Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn't vegan?| More from beanmail] ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:28 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments)
I think Josh is 100% correct. But Jason, you still seem ultimately annoyed by JSF. I for one am way more annoyed about all the people still eating meat -- and all the patronizing vegans with their panties in a bunch about what may shape up to be the most influential mainstream veg PR in a long, long time. And that comes from someone who doesn't even like how the guy writes.

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[Read Vegan MoFo Mashup] ]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:28:14 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments) If you don't want to eat meat because you think its cruel to animals fine (nevermind, those animals would have no life and might not exist if they weren't farmed for human consumption) just quit telling me that I am nutritionally better off with tofu. It isn't true.

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[Read PETA Continues to Be Ridiculous, In the Real World and Elsewhere] ]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:02 EST info@supervegan.com (SuperVegan Blog Comments) In other film news, Food, Inc and The Cove tied for Best Documentary at the Environmental Media Awards presented by the Environmental Media Association, which aims to "honor film and television personalities, productions, musicians and musical tours that convey environmental messages in the most creative and influential ways."
Check out the hilarious coverage:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/celebrities/8194

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