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The Cutting Veg: Blogs by Pamela Rice




It's time for activisim, vegetarians!
[OCTOBER 2, 2006, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... Why isn't our cause better understood by the general public? Why is it still okay to denigrate, slur, and malign vegetarians with impunity? When it gets down to it, these two questions are the acid test... We vegetarinas must not be doing enough to fight the discrimination against us and our noble cause. [ READ FULL STORY].

Oprah on bird flu: Enough to scare you good, but that's about all
[JANUARY 26, 2006, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... I happened to watch Oprah this past Tuesday (January 24) and oh boy! Her topic, BIRD FLU; her guest, DR. MICHAEL OSTERHOLM, an infectious-disease expert from the University of Minnesota. The message was as dire as any I've ever heard on commercial television. To Oprah's credit, she said she wanted to do anything she could to engender awareness about the potentially apocalyptic results of a bird-flu pandemic—the virtually inevitable catastrophe referred to on the show as second only to nuclear war in deadly consequences. Unfortunately, her show merely served to scare the heebiejeebies out of her viewers and she ended up neglecting to note the most important fact associated with the terrifying scenarios put forth.... [ READ FULL STORY].

Pamela Rice responds to would-be private-property activist Kent Knudson, whose Arizona court battle, which challenges rancher privilege, is soon to be coming around the pass
[DECEMBER 12, 2005, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... When I was in Williamsburg, Virginia, some years back I learned a few things about early American history. Today, Williamsburg is a college town as well as the setting for an elaborate restoration project that presents life in Colonial days for tourists. In season, historians are everywhere walking the grounds with small groups in tow. Their presentations, every one of them, I recall, were quite fascinating. ...In any case, I distinctly remember the words of one of them, and they may be relevant to your case, Mr. Knudson. I learned that the resident animals of Williamsburg in that early period in American life had the right to graze wherever they wanted. And if a property owner did not want animals trampling his marigolds back then he had better learn to build a fence—a strong one... [ READ FULL STORY].

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Go veg, stay slimmer: But we knew that...
[NOVEMBER 9, 2005, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... TWO CLINICAL STUDIES were published this year that yet again served to bolster a notion many people pretty much already take for granted: vegans are slimmer and less-prone to diabetes than omnivores. The first of the two studies, which was reported on in June, involved 55,000 Swedish female subjects. It found compelling evidence that those who identify themselves as vegetarian or vegan are less likely to be overweight or obese than meat eaters. What's more, the vegans in the study outdid the vegetarians in countering pudginess as compared to the omnivores. So-called semi-vegetarians—those who sometimes eat fish, or eggs, as defined in the study—faired about the same at the vegetarians, who were defined as ... [READ FULL STORY].

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Bush: promoting meat, shafting the environment
[JULY 21, 2005, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... HOW MANY OF US are as aware that Bush has been consistently easy on the industries that produce animal-based foods? ... • In January of this year, the EPA offered corporate livestock farms immunity from the Clean Air Act. ... • The scientists who wrote the analysis on grazing were aghast at how their report was so utterly altered by Bush Administration insiders. ... • Years from now, after these vast expanses of our natural world are fully colonized by the fish farmers, it will surely take a sweeping act of Congress, or God, to remove them. [READ FULL STORY].

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Fat and calories, served up fast
 [JULY 11, 2005, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... EACH SIDE OFFERS A one-stop god-awful-truth guide to such categories as burgers, deli sandwiches, egg dishes, hot dogs, pies, cookies, and fountain drinks. ...The nutrition numbers are surely sobering, but so are the sheer numbers of marketed items available. And you don't have to be a meat eater to be shocked by the information. What I read left me cold as a McDonald's Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream Cone.. [READ FULL STORY].

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Simple solution to bird flu
 [JULY 2, 2005, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... POSSIBLY AS MANY AS a hundred million people died from the flu pandemic of 1918—this despite the fact that over 97 percent of those who became ill actually recovered. Compare this with the current strain, H5N1. It kills nearly two out of every three people it strikes. ... Public health officials go about preparing for the "inevitable" worst. And the rest of us are forced to accept this approach as if it were the only one. [READ FULL STORY].

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Vegetarian-eye's view of a meaty a banquet
 [JUNE 29, 2005, by Pamela Rice] — EXCERPT: ... THE NEW ERA DEMOCRATS HAD its annual awards dinner, last Tuesday [June 21] evening at Brooklyn's Grand Prospect Ballroom, and I was one unlikely guest. ... From the minute I got there, it was rapid-fire introductions. ... "This is Pamela Rice," it was all night, then, "the head of the vegan vegetarian society," my trailing epithet. Ouch. That went over big, particularly in a room filled with people for whom you could almost see the cholesterol exuding from their cheeks. ...Right away, one guy gloated "just yesterday I had a $30 steak. You should have seen it." ...[READ FULL STORY].