Interesting
Vegetarian Bytes
that Made News:
Thai Tsunami Workers Turn Vegetarian
Vegetarian Mothers More Likely to Give Birth to Girls
J. No! Actress Gets Heat for Wearing Fur
Thai Tsunami
Workers Turn Vegetarian
(14 Jan 2005, Source: Reuters)
BANGKOK
- The gruesome task of retrieving the bodies of tsunami victims
has turned many Thai rescue workers vegetarian, the Matichon
newspaper said on Friday.
"Our operations in the first days weren't going smoothly,"
Suthiarun
, a rescue team leader, told the Thai newspaper. "After
we turned to vegetarian food and lighting jossticks to the
spirits asking for help, the job has become much easier," he
said.
Suthiarun said vegetarian food was all the rage in one
nearby village, where a makeshift relief kitchen produced
about 1,000 boxes of meatless food a day. The newspaper
quoted a survivor as saying that the smell of death had
put her off meat.
Vegetarian
Mothers More Likely to Give Birth to Girls
(Source: Practising Midwife August, 2000)
A British study of how diet affects the health of new mothers and their babies
produced the surprise finding that vegetarian women are more likely to have
girls.
- Researchers monitored 5,942 pregnant
women.
- Nearly 5% were vegetarian, a total of more than 250 women.
- They were mainly concerned with looking at things such as hemoglobin and
birth weights, but the difference in sex ratio they discovered was completely
unexpected.
- While the normal birth ratio in Britain is 106 boys born for every 100 girls,
in the vegetarian women in the study, there were 81.5 boys born for every 100
girls.
- After finding these results, researchers decided to further test their surprise
findings by extending their study for a further six months, looking exclusively
at the sex of babies.
- The results, covering about 150 more vegetarian women, were "just about
exactly the same," the study authors report.
- Previous studies have shown that diets high in potassium, calcium and magnesium
will produce more male births, but there is no evidence that a vegetarian diet
is low in these elements.
- Researchers suggest that a further study could be carried out to investigate
whether the diet of fathers affects the sex of their children.
J. No! Actress
Gets Heat for Wearing Fur
(April 30, 2005, Source: HappyCow.net)
"Something is going on over there," I stopped
my partner in our trek to our favorite vegan restaurant,
Native Foods in Los Angeles. "Looks like a protest."
Next thing we knew, we were holding signs that read, "J.
Lo: Monster-in-Fur."
On this evening, the new Hollywood
movie, Monster-In-Law, rolled out its red carpet
for the celebrity-studded cast, including the famous
celebrity pop star & actress Jennifer Lopez (also
known as "J. Lo"). But instead of
being greeted by adoring fans, the celebrities were confronted
by 200+ animal rights defenders who chanted, "Hey
hey what do you say? How many animals did you kill today?" and
held signs that read, "Wear your own skin."
Fur... the feature in Jennfer Lopez's
new clothing line. She wears it everywhere she goes. Her
fur farm in Japan helps her trap, cage, and electrocute
wild animals. The cost of this high society lifestyle?
Starting at usd$50,000 for one coat. Not too
high for a international superstar, I guess.
But we were there to make sure she knew the real price:
40 dead animals for one fur coat.
Later that night, the local
news aired brief clip of the movie premier, with the PETA-sponsored
protest claiming the center of attention and an embarrassed
J. Lo who repeated to the camera, "I don't want to
talk about it. I don't want to talk about it."
No
smiles or glamour there.
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