Jezebel: Vegetarians

Cities Across America Reject PETA Ads

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:40:00 EDT

PETA has done a lot of things to piss people off, but their newest offer - to help cash-strapped cities pay off their deficit through ads on trash cans - makes us wonder if anyone can stomach the organization. More »

Leaves Of Sass

Anna Holmes — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Kuala Lumpur, September 2. Image via Getty]

Crazy Salad

Anna Holmes — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:10:00 EDT

[Tokyo, August 3. Image via Getty]

Teen Urges Obama Girls To Push For Veggie Meals

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:40:00 EDT

Wyntergrace Williams is a 14-year-old vegetarian who is campaigning for healthier school lunches. That's why she has penned a letter to Sasha and Malia Obama. More »

Giles Coren: "Vegetarianism Is An Eating Disorder"

Hortense Smith — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Giles Coren of the Times of London believes that vegetarianism is just another form of disordered eating, an illness hidden under layers of moral or religious reasoning. "Vegetarianism is a cry for help," he writes. More »

Do More Men Really Go Vegan Because Of Pamela Anderson's Boobs?

Jessica G. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Last month when I disclosed my prejudice against vegan guys, hackles were raised in the comments section about the manly men who love poon as much as they love quinoa. Well today's NY Times "Thursday Styles" section profiles one Johnny Diablo, who has made a career out of combining poon and quinoa: he opened a strip-club-cum Vegan restaurant in Portland, Oregon, called Casa Diablo Gentlemen's Club, where the strippers wear pleather! Local feminists (of which there are many) have been less than pleased. One "feminazi" as Mr. Diablo calls them, "came in here once. I could tell she had an attitude right when she came in. She was all hostile." But Mr. Diablo's not the only one using the female form to sell an animal rights agenda — Pam Anderson has been posing in her skivvies for PETA for a while now, and in L.A. there's a Pussycat Dolls-ish group called Vegan Vixens — and many vegan activists are wondering whether it is contradictory to use women as meat when you're anti-using animals for meat. More »

Can Female Vegetarians And Male Carnivores Ever Find True Foodie Love?

Jessica G. — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:30:00 EST

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." Ha! That's Anthony Bourdain in the best-selling memoir Kitchen Confidential, and the writer/celebrity chef's famous phrase made an appearance in today's New York Times, which, on the eve of Valentine's Day, delves into the issue of dietary restrictions as potential dealbreakers among couples. A vegan quoted in the article, Lisa Romano, says that she recently dumped a boyfriend because he liked grilling his burgers alongside her soy patties, something she found "unenlightened and disturbing." Explains Romano: "I need someone who is ethically on the same page." That makes sense: If not killing animals for food is so high on someone's ethical scale that she refrains from eating meat, I imagine that her moral compass is set pretty differently from that of a rampant carnivore. More »

Is Anyone Surprised That Anne Heche Is Still Crazy?

Jennifer — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:30:11 EDT

Anne Heche's estranged husband goes out on a limb and calls her "mentally unstable." [People.com]