AR-News: Go Vegan Texas! Turns Two & Celebrates w/Ingrid Newkirk - Mondayat 11am (CDT) on KPFT- Houston

[Mary Finelli]

"Why is PETA hoping to discourage husky hunks from hankering after 
hamburgers?   The standard American diet of meat, dairy products, and eggs ‹ 
all of which are packed with cholesterol and saturated fat ‹ has produced a 
nation that's bulging at the seams."
                                                              --- from www. 
PETA.org



                                Ingrid Newkirk
                                    President of PETA
                People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
     "the woman behind the most successful radical group in the US"

                                     our Special Guest  as

                Go Vegan Texas! Turns Two



        Monday at 11am (CDT) on KPFT

90.1 FM-Houston and 89.5 FM-Galveston



           & focus on PETA's newest anti fat campaign:

                    "It¹s really that simple: Meat-eaters are fatter.
               The only regimen that¹s been proven to take weight off
                         and keep it off is a low-fat vegan diet."

                          "Veg Eye for the Fat Guy:"
       Advice for the "Flab Five" Celebrities:

Michael Moore: Looks like the Downsize This author has been doing is too 
much supersizing.  The "awful truth" is that animal products are packed with 
fat and cholesterol.  Before he gets too big for his britches, Moore should 
cut out the "stupid white meat" and embrace tofu, the "other white meat."

Luciano Pavoratti: This living legend is living large.  He's three tenors 
rolled into one!
Aria worried about your cholesterol,  Luciano?  Pitch the prosciutto and 
start singing the praises of vegan pizza.

John Goodman: TV's West Wing senator looks like he's been indulging in too 
many buffalo wings.  A favorite on both the big and small screen, Goodman 
will be too big for any screen if he doesn't act fast.  Here's the skinny.  
Even skinless chicken has as much cholesterol as beef and is 23 percent fat 
in a percentage of calories.  The Raising Ariziona star should do more 
grazing and less braising.

Rueben Studdard:  If the "Velvet Teddy Bear" doesn't want to be known as the 
"Velveeta Teddy Bear," he might want to idle his meat and dairy 
intake."Simon Says" you can fly without wings if you eat like a bird --- 
lots of grains, nuts, and whole fruits.

John Madden: If this Monday Night Football host really wants to tackle his 
weight problem, he should take a page from of the PETA.  Pass on the 
"turducken" and rush for the salad bar. And because eating meat clogs the 
arteries to all organs, (not just the heart), Madden may find he can score 
more touchdowns off the playing field if he switches to a vegan diet.
                                                           ---- from 
www/peta.org

"Fearing that some of today's biggest celebrities are in danger of cutting 
their careers short with their unhealthy lifestyles, PETA wants to help them 
slim down before they become too much of a good thing."  PETA's website is 
offering these "five larger-than-life stars a meat-free makeover that will 
help them look and feel like new men.

"These lucky stars will be receiving PETA's "Veg Eye Makeover Kit," 
including copies of PETA's vegetarian starter kit, which is chock-full of 
easy tips on how to switch from meaty to meatless; The PETA Celebrity 
Cookbook, which makes vegetarian cooking super simple; and samples of 
delicious, low-fat vegetarian food, including "fib ribs," "fakin' bacon," 
and Tofurky.

We will discuss PETA's Veg Eye for the Fat Guy campaign with Ingrid Newkirk, 
president of PETA,  no stranger to radical approaches for getting attention 
focused on vegan and animal rights issues as PETA takes on big fat, the 
obesity epidemic sweeping the country, on its way to surpassing smoking as 
the no. 1 preventable killer.

To be considered obese, more than one-third of a person's body weight must 
be made up of fat.  A whopping 34  percent of al Americans are obese, and 
the problem is getting worse, not better."

Ingrid will also talk about  PETA's  other ongoing grass roots campaigns:  
Kentucky Fried Cruelty,  Iams.Cruelty, PetCo Cruelty, ColumbiaCruelty.  We 
will  hear about  PETA's  newest video, Chew on This! Maybe it's Time to Go 
Vegertarian which can be seen on www.peta.org.

Co-hosting our birthday special are two members of the Go Vegan Texas! 
Collective on Animal Rights: Rhea Green,  founder and director of In 
Solidarity of Animals, and Vivian Farrell, founder and director of Fund 4 
Horses, who will give us an update on the remarkable developments this past 
week concerning HR 857, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, moving 
us a few steps closer to taking horses out of the human food chain.

Thank you for joining us today as we celebrate two years of cruelty-free 
programming on the airwaves of KPFT...and thank you, our loyal listeners, 
for your great support of our efforts to raise awareness about the abuse of 
animals in the food, clothing, entertainment and research industries.

Janice Blue
Host, Go Vegan Texas!
Now weekly every Monday at 11am (CST)
On Pacifica Radio
KPFT, 90.1 FM - Houston and 89.5 FM - Galveston

Listen Live on www.GovVeganTexas.org
(Just Wiggle the Cow's Ears)
Or later on www.KPFTarchive.org

Every animal you eat
Was running for her life.
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Show Compassion, Go Vegan!

We have  Go Vegan Texas! t shirts for sale in adult and children's sizes.
Visit our website:  www.govegantexas.org
We regret we have run out of all our tote bags, large and small.


Contact Info on Today's Guest & Co Hosts:

Ingrid Newkirk
www.peta.org

Vivian Farrell
www.Fund4Horses.org

note: check out "Hot Tracks" on the HomePage w/up to the minuet updates
on HR857...American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act...and be sure to view
the Bo Derek 10-min documentary on the horse slaughter issue.  Also, call
your Texas senators and congressional representatives and urge their support
for the bill's passage...and participate in the Horseshoe for Congress 
campaign
...all on the Fund 4 Horses website, as well as www.GoVeganTexas.org ... We
are getting closer and closer to ending horse slaughter for good in the US!

Rhea Green
www.InSolidaritywithAnimals.com
www.SacredRedwood.org

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