Julia Stiles

Jan 01, 2010 23:07

I posted this on my blog at www.volentia.com as well but thought I'd share the latest words of wisdom from Julia Stiles.

Actress Julia Stiles has recently come out saying she was wrong in dissing her former vegan diet on TV.

Stiles, 28, said in an interview with EcoStiletto: "I’m not [still vegan]. I was for a couple of years and I ended up ( Read more... )

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spyral_path January 2 2010, 04:18:04 UTC
It sounds like she was only vegan for health reasons that had nothing to do with ethics, so for her being mindful would mean getting grilled chicken instead of a cheeseburger.

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xenax January 2 2010, 18:15:38 UTC
That makes sense....if she is so concerned and mindful about her health then veganism should be her only option. I guess her logic goes a little over my head but I get what you are saying completely!

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aggie_zag January 2 2010, 04:26:31 UTC
Oh, Julia. You're doing it wrong. :(

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lovelychickadee January 2 2010, 04:58:23 UTC
I didn't know she even dabbled in the vegan world. I agree that she was likely only doing it for "health" reasons, ie., wanted to lose weight. Le sigh.

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elinafromtheash January 2 2010, 05:12:33 UTC
"has balanced intention with her body's nutritional needs."

It means she balanced her needs against her intentions (to cause less harm? IDK) to try and come up with a solution to satisfy them all - and somehow didn't think that an iron supplement might be the best way to do that.

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xenax January 2 2010, 18:25:25 UTC
Yes exactly. I feel like if you're going to make this public apology you can back it up with some positive info about veganism. Like you said she could've taken supplements or she could state that it's really not so difficult to find beans, spinach, broccoli, nuts in any grocery store but she was too lazy to do so.

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fe January 2 2010, 06:33:01 UTC
I had a discussion at work the other day with a woman who was (as in past tense) a self proclaimed 'fake vegan.' She said she was doing it because of the fact that most animal products come with a great deal of antibiotics and hormones and she didn't want to put that in her body. It seems to be a pretty common mind set to approaching veganism, but it also doesn't seem to last. The woman I spoke to was only 'fake vegan' at home, but found it too difficult to manage outside the home so ate anything she felt like at restaurants. Recently, she's decided locally owned egg farmers are acceptable to her.

Which was really sad because she brought in banana bread and I couldn't have any because she had put eggs in it.

Anyway, Julia Stiles's approach could include being against factory farming and only wanting happy cows, but I couldn't tell from the interview.

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xenax January 2 2010, 18:35:28 UTC
Haha that's the first time I'm hearing of the term fake vegan. I love how people make up their own diets and then try to be a part of something. I mean if you're a vegan on monday, wednesday, friday only...then you are not a vegan!! I feel like right now veganism is trendy so a lot of people are declaring "i am a vegan!" and doing all these backward contradictory things that have nothing to do with it.

You're right it's possible she wants to eat happy cows. I recently went to a local grocery store and was in the dairy section. They had all these brand names like "Laughing Cow" and "Skinny Cow" and "Natures Promise" and it always has pictures of these like ecstatic cows dancing, smiling, and relaxing. It's a huge disgusting joke!!

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gxxx January 2 2010, 18:59:27 UTC
That Laughing Cow and Happy Cow shit pisses me off. Have you seen those Happy Cow's come from California campaign? The people are suppose to go to their website and vote on who will be the "next happy cow". I'm not entirely sure what that means. Happy to go to slaughter? Here's the website:

http://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/rcm

And one of the commercials (nothing graphic, just stupid):

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xenax January 2 2010, 19:08:12 UTC
LMAO. That was the most retarded thing I have ever seen I am seriously laughing out loud hahah. Their website looks like one big expensive marketing brainwashing session.

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