Great HuffingtonPost.com piece on vegetarianism (please forward to your lists):]

February 3, 2007

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For all of you who have hard-to-sway meat-eaters in your lives, you may

wish to forward this article to them. You can't get any more mainstream

that Kathy Freston, wife of Tom Freston, one of the founders of MTV and

the former President & CEO of Viacom. This is a new article, not the

original " Vegetarian Is The New Prius " from last week.

I just love that title.

A Few More 'Inconvenient Truths'

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*by Kathy Freston*

My last post ( " Vegetarian Is the New Prius

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got a lot of traction, and I think it's because there is a realization

that being " part of the solution " can be a whole lot simpler -and

cheaper - than going out and buying a new car.

We can make a huge difference in the environment by eating a plant based

diet instead of an animal based one. Factory farming pollutes our air

and water, reduces the rainforests, and goes a long way to create global

warming. And although the vast majority of responses to the piece were

positive, there were some environmentalists for whom the idea of giving

up those chicken nuggets was impossible to swallow.

My favorite movie of last year was Al Gore's/ An Inconvenient Truth/ (Al

Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize!), but I have to admit that when I speak

with environmentalists about the obvious waste and pollution involved in

the totally unnecessary activity of meat consumption, I feel a lot like

Mr. Gore trying to convince the U.S. Congress to take the issue of

global warming seriously during his first term in the Congress. I

thought I might discuss a few of the key concerns that were posted to

the blog and that my meat-eating friends offer in defense of their

continued meat consumption. So here we go:

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