Animal Person
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. Alicia Silverstone was on the show as a spokesperson for the health benefits and other benefits of veganism. Alicia (laughing): Well, I'd have to see the cows and the chickens. And a similar pouncing has come from some vegans.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
And there are religious reasons: According to the Bible , the original divinely-prescribed diet was an entirely plant-based, vegan diet: "And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. These birds are some of the most abused animals in agriculture.
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