Even Oprah Faces Vegan Problems
Oprah is wrapping up her first week eating only vegan food, and continuing to blog about her experiences. Here’s an interesting excerpt from her Friday entry:
“Tom [Cruise]’s chef prepared ribs and chicken for lunch. I had salad and corn on the cob with no butter and a kale salad, which was also offered. There were also home made chocolate brownies with marshmallow filling made by Tom’s mom, which I also turned down. I feel like I let Tom’s mom down …”
For some reason, I thought that Oprah would not experience the same things that average Jane vegans see everyday. Being Oprah, and having the world know that you are eating only vegan food for at least 21 days apparently doesn’t mean people won’t still offer you anything but.
You cannot tell me that Tom Cruise’s (I’m not on a first-name basis with him like Ms. Winfrey is) chef didn’t know. Furthermore, he served two meats? At one meal? That’s not a buffet, nor a large family dinner, nor a church gathering. Ribs and chicken for lunch?
What is wrong with people?
But it’s not just an odd meal because a vegan eater was present, it’s unhealthy regardless.
The New American Plate, a revised way to fill your plate by the American Institute for Cancer Research, suggests no more than one-fourth of your plate be filled with animal flesh. (The other three-quarters are recommended to be two servings of different vegetables, and one of a starch.)
If you were to put one small rack of ribs and one small chicken breast on a plate, one-half of your plate would easily be overcome with meat. People do not need this much protein, fat, cholesterol, blood, flesh, bones …
The snapshot shown here is of the New American Plate brochure; click on it to see a PDF version of the insides.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Regarding your criticism of Momma Cruise’s multi-meat fiesta, you cover folks like my future mother-in-law, who isn’t happy unless she’s grilling chicken, ribs, AND sausage at her BBQs. Multi-meat fiestas aren’t just for the rich and Xenu-fearing. But with rising food costs, perhaps we’ll see more veggie kabobs this summer.
June 8th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
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