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...took a 14-month walk across the country in support of campaign finance reform: "There's a passage in Granny D.'s book in which she talks about how her fascination with roadkill sometimes put her fellow walkers off...Just outside of Phoenix, she was walking with a needy vegetarian who looks like 'the Carradine boy from Kung Fu.' The duo stumble upon a dead fox in the road. His body is still warm. The vegetarian drags the carcass under a tree. Granny D. waxes philosophical, saying, 'If you are afraid of death, you are afraid of life, for living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Old People Know, Anyway? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...pulled the trip together with help from friends, research online and some professional advice. While her fiancé was off skiing the Canadian wilderness, from hut to unheated hut, Bergman was at home, "enjoying a visit from an out-of-town friend, eating meat (her fiancé's a vegetarian) and going to every last formulaic action-adventure movie of the season (which he cannot stand)." Talk about a win-win situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Your Partner? Send Him Away! | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...particular achievement of The World is to flesh out the two potent forces that Naipaul has often seemed to repress: women and Trinidad, where he grew up. The abstemious Brahmin vegetarian who looked away from the movie screen whenever a kissing scene was shown, even after his marriage, is here revealed as a writer of wildly sensual letters whose mistress of 24 years called him "the Lion King" and drew sketches of his manhood in all its naked glory. That did not stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V.S. Naipaul's Other Life | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...seventh grade, when I was faced with dissecting a chicken wing. I asked for an alternative, but [the teacher] said only if I'm a vegetarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hi, How Are You? My Name Is Cutout Dissection.com | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...then Scully is an unusual conservative. A vegetarian from age 17, he adopts shelter dogs on the last legs of their lives—he told me that he doesn’t accept “euthanasia” for humans or animals as inevitable. And he sees in animal cruelty the same enemies that conservatives confront in all spheres of society: moral relativism, a devaluing of life, and self-centered materialism posing as a code of ethics...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Maverick for Mercy | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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