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Let Mrs. Obama Eat Red Velvet Cake

By on 2.7.12 @ 6:08AM

Americans will find Michelle Obama’s obesity prescriptions — and her zucchini pizza — hard to digest.

First Lady Michelle Obama leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Last week, the First Lady appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to cajole Leno to eat his veggies. For his trouble, Leno had to eat a slice of veggie pizza with zucchini and eggplant (yuck), baked sweet potato fries (well, at least he could dip them into ketchup), and an apple with honey from the White House garden. Leno could have stepped into a hornet’s nest, but he was a good sport about it and ate his veggies like a scolded child.

I suppose that under those circumstances, it is usually better to respond with honey than vinegar. But sometimes beets can be effective. The First Lady admitted she had an aversion to beets, and Leno later surprised her with a plate of the red variety of beta vulgaris. Mrs. Obama enjoyed eating her veggie about as much as Leno did his. Well, if you don’t want to join them, you can occasionally beet them.

Earlier in the interview, when the First Lady said that her mother and daughters had baked a red velvet cake for her birthday, Leno asked, “What is the calorie count?” To which Mrs. Obama replied rather defensively, “It’s fine.” Well, at 513 calories per serving, I’m sure it’s quite fine. Whatever the caloric content, the red velvet cake was apparently special ordered rather than homemade. The First Lady’s enjoyment of red velvet cake notwithstanding, much of the conversation focused on Leno’s non-consumption of vegetables. She asked him, “How do you get your fiber?” and then turned to the audience and asked, “Don’t you wonder?”

Well, no, actually. Until Mrs. Obama asked, I had given nary a moment’s thought to how Jay Leno obtains his fiber — much less the amount of it he does or doesn’t consume. Frankly, Leno should have told the First Lady it was none of her damn business. I’m sure most people would welcome such questions about their diets from the First Lady about as much as the First Lady would welcome a question about how much her trip to Costa del Sol a couple of summers ago cost the taxpayers. So let Mrs. Obama have her red velvet cake, if she leaves us to our burgers, pomme frites, and Coca-Cola (or Pepsi). It was the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who said, “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” So if the state can stay out of Canadian bedrooms, why should there be any place for it in American kitchens?

While I understand the need to encourage physical activity among young people, the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign leaves a great deal to be desired, particularly where it concerns “the epidemic of childhood obesity.” According to letsmove.gov, “Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are [sic] overweight or obese.” But is America’s youth really getting fatter? In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) changed the definition of obesity, and, as Dr. Richard Fogoros put it, “thirty million Americans who had been of normal weight now found themselves to be obese, all without gaining a pound.”

But even if the CDC’s definition of obesity has expanded, it would appear that its definition of epidemic isn’t quite as elastic. The CDC defines an epidemic as “the occurrence of more cases of disease than would normally be expected in a specific place or group of people over a given period of time.” Simply put, obesity is not a disease, although it most certainly contributes to heart disease, certain types of cancer and diabetes. Nevertheless, the CDC does describe obesity in epidemic terms, stating, “In recent decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in populations whose environments offer an abundance of calorie-rich foods and few opportunities for physical activity.”

Yet this is a highly debatable statement. The idea that Americans have full plates of food but are somehow starved of physical activity seems rather peculiar. It isn’t a question of Americans having few opportunities for physical activity, but rather a question of Americans choosing not to exercise or simply not making it a priority in their lives. What prevents anyone from leaving their home and going for a walk, a jog, or a swim at a nearby pool — other than a lack of desire and motivation? Even if you prefer to stay home, one can always get moving with exercise equipment or an exercise video. If you’re inclined toward video games, a half hour of Nintendo Wii baseball is a very nice way to build up a sweat.

Now where it concerns young people who are overweight or obese, who don’t have a physical fitness role model at home, and who are mercilessly teased and bullied at school, having mentors to help encourage outdoor activity could make a lasting difference. But does it really take Mrs. Obama force-feeding America slice after slice of zucchini and eggplant pizza to make that happen? So long as the First Lady is content to indulge in red velvet cake, I suspect many Americans will find her words of advice hard to swallow.

About the Author

Aaron Goldstein writes from Boston, Massachusetts.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (230) |

John Daniel| 2.7.12 @ 6:48AM

"Do as I say and not as I do, you ignorant slugs (excepting those who, as I, have an ivy league degree...in which case everything you do is OK)."

tinky peetee| 2.7.12 @ 9:37AM

All you Lard Buckets get in line.

KFC has a special this week on extra-crispy! Get you a bucket, and pop in to Krispy Kreme and buy you a box.

Then take a nap.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:09AM

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
― Anthony Bourdain

Pete| 2.7.12 @ 12:53PM

Been a vegetarian for some 40 years now. I admit to being a bane of chefs. I won't eat in their restaurants.

Brian Mc| 2.7.12 @ 1:20PM

Vegetarians are an invention of the refrigeration age.

Pete| 2.7.12 @ 2:17PM

Tell that to the Hindus

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 2:26PM

Do you eat seafood, Pete?

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 2:44PM

I have a 32 year old daughter who is a food nazi. She scrutinizes everything that goes in her mouth and mine when she comes to visit. It's so tiresome that I don't invite her over much any more.
And as we presbyterians say, "all things in moderation". Good Lord people. Does it have to be one way or the highway?

StanO| 2.9.12 @ 1:01PM

Yeah, that's annoying, I have a sister like that "Oh! isn't that fatty?"

Brian Mc| 2.7.12 @ 3:26PM

Oh yeah, let's all move to the tropics and eat coconuts.

stan redmond| 2.8.12 @ 12:02AM

Or the Bhudists

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:14AM

Actually, the Book of Daniel describes a vegetarian diet. It is biblical, not Californical.

Vasu Murti | 2.9.12 @ 4:25PM

News item: reality television show:

The ABC news show "What Would You Do?" this Friday at 9pm. A couple of people force meat on a vegan kid while the vegan mother looks on. They want to gauge how regular people will react to this situation.

And for an encore, they'll force pro-life women to have abortions against their will?!

A popular vegetarian bumper sticker out of Seattle, WA reads:

"Vegetarianism is Love in Action"

The number of animals killed for food here in the United States is nearly 75 times larger than the number of animals killed in laboratories, 30 times larger than the number killed by hunters and trappers, and 500 times larger than the number of animals killed in animal pounds.

If we abolitionists really want to end animal cruelty, vegetarianism and veganism would be a good place to start!

Is abstaining from cannibalism "work"?
Is refraining from enslaving other humans "work"?

During the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon was asked by a reporter, "Does your hair require any special attention?" To this, Lennon replied, "Inattention is the main thing."

Similarly, with vegetarianism, we're not asking people to engage in activity -- we're asking them to REFRAIN from engaging in an activity. By refraining from eating animals, they are, in effect, refraining from killing them.

By refraining from eating animals, refraining from using products tested on animals, refraining from patronizing forms of "entertainment" that use animals, refraining from wearing the furs or skins of animals, etc., we are, in effect, refraining from harming and killing animals altogether...

...just as pro-life Christians who refuse vaccines containing aborted fetal cells are refraining from contributing to the death of another human being.

You'd think pro-lifers would immediately see the obvious similarities between these two causes, animal rights and prenatal rights.

Just as pro-lifers oppose research on stem-cells, animal rights activists oppose experimenting on animals!

Whether expressed in terms of karma or sin, in each cause we see activists not wanting to be implicated in the crime of killing, in the crime of unnecessary violence against others.

Christians are sometimes reluctant to engage in what they misunderstand to be "good works," but again, we're not asking them to perform good deeds, just to REFRAIN FROM KILLING.

This is not merely an academic point, it's one I've made before when discussing current trends in animal liberation theology:

Perhaps the real question true believers should be asking themselves with regards to animal rights and vegetarianism is not "Why should Christians abstain from certain foods?", but rather, "Why should Christians want to harm or kill God's innocent creatures in the first place?"

I'll be honest with you: we humans can't end abortion (or war) until we cease to kill animals.

Religious pro-lifers claim they don't have to "work," but aren't they "working" to protect the unborn?

We see pro-lifers lobbying Congress; signing online petitions; contributing financially to right-to-life groups; educating the American people, the American public and the younger generation on life issues; engaging in political activism; engaging in activities that require effort, with a specific result (e.g., greater protection of the unborn) intended as the desired outcome.

If faith in Jesus is all that's required, why are pro-lifers struggling or engaging in "work" to end abortion? Why doesn't the abortion crisis magically go away as soon as one accepts Jesus as one's Lord and Saviour?

Beyond mere faith in Jesus, we see religious pro-lifers engaging in religious activity: praying for an end to the abortion crisis; 40 Days For Life of Prayer and Fasting; the Walk For Life, etc.

Again: if faith in Jesus is all that's required, why do pro-lifers have to struggle, or engage in effort or "work" to end abortion?

Legal abortion is promoted in China, and we now see a gender imbalance of 37 million more males than females in China, due to sex-selective abortion.

Ending abortion in China would end the gender imbalance.

Whether expressed in terms of karma (action and reaction) or a secular slippery slope argument familiar to pro-lifers, clearly, there is a direct cause-and-effect relationship: allowing one social injustice to flourish results inevitably in other social injustices.

Please consider these other direct cause-and-effect relationships:

The Worldwatch Institute estimates one pound of steak from a steer raised in a feedlot costs: five pounds of grain, a whopping 2,500 gallons of water, the energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline, and about 34 pounds of topsoil.

Thirty-three percent of our nation's raw materials and fossil fuels go into livestock destined for slaughter. In a vegan economy, only two percent of our resources will go to the production of food.

"It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the overpopulation of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat."

--Jeremy Rifkin, pro-life AND pro-animal author, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, and president of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

According to the editors of World Watch, July/August 2004:

"The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future--deforestization, topsoil erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease."

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, similarly says in the February 1995 issue of Harmony: Voices for a Just Future (a peace and justice periodical on the religious left):

"...the survival of our planet depends on our sense of belonging -- to all other humans, to dolphins caught in dragnets to pigs and chickens and calves raised in animal concentration camps, to redwoods and rainforests, to kelp beds in our oceans, and to the ozone layer."

Is ending abortion "work"?

Or is ending abortion merely ceasing to do evil, as the prophet Isaiah (1:11,15) says, when quoting God Himself condemning animal sacrifice?

Opponents of global warming, global hunger, the energy, environmental, population and water crises aren't offended when told veganism (ceasing to kill animals) is the solution to each of their respective crises.

Perhaps it's time pro-lifers take a serious look at animal rights as THE political strategy for ending the abortion crisis!

(Even with sentience, rather than species membership, as the criterion for personhood, all later-term abortions would have to be prohibited.)

I understand Christians aren't interested in being "converted" to another religion. But Christians must know animal rights are not a religious doctrine, as they're quick to cry "MOVE" when presented with secular arguments against killing animals.

Animal rights, as a secular, moral philosophy, may appear to be at odds with traditional religious thinking (e.g., human "dominion" over other animals), but this is equally true of:

...democracy and representative government in place of monarchy and belief in the divine right of kings; the separation of church and state; the abolition of (human) slavery; the emancipation of women; birth control; the sexual revolution; LGBT rights...

...all social progress since the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment... social progress even conservative Christians take for granted!

Some of the greatest figures in human history have been in favor of ethical vegetarianism and animal rights. These include:

Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, Alice Walker, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Browning, Percy Shelley, Voltaire, Thomas Hardy, Rachel Carson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pythagoras, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Schweitzer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gertrude Stein, Frederick Douglass, Francis Bacon, William Wordsworth, the Buddha, Mark Twain, and Henry David Thoreau.

Abraham Lincoln once said: "I care not for a man’s religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it."

Many distinguished figures in Christianity were vegetarian. A partial list includes:

St. James, St. Matthew, Clemens Prudentius, Origen, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, St. Basil, St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, Aegidius, St. Benedict, Boniface, St. Richard of Wyche, St. Filippo Neri, St. Columba, John Wray, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, Joshua Evans, William Metcalfe, General William Booth, Ellen White, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and Reverend V.A. Holmes-Gore.

In a 1989 interview with the now-defunct Animals' Agenda, Reverend Linzey, an Anglican clergyman, said:

"We treat animals today precisely as we treated slaves, and the theological arguments are often entirely the same or have the same root.

"I believe the movement for animal rights is the most significant movement in Christianity, morally, since the emancipation of the slaves. And it provides just as many difficulties for the institutional church..."

Since 1986, numerous books have been written on animals and theology, including:

The Vegetarianism of Jesus Christ; Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions; Christianity and the Rights of Animals; The Souls of Animals; Replenish the Earth; Of God and Pelicans; Is God A Vegetarian?; God's Covenant with Animals; They Shall not Hurt or Destroy; The Lost Religion of Jesus; Good News for All Creation; Vegetarian Christian Saints; The Dominion of Love; Good Eating; Of God and Dogs; Every Creature a Word of God; School of Compassion, etc.

All of this biblical scholarship by Christian vegetarians and vegans (and their friends in the non-Abrahamic faiths), trying to reconcile biblical tradition with animal rights, would be completely unnecessary if pro-lifers would treat animal rights as a secular civil rights issue applicable to everyone -- including atheists and agnostics -- as they view their own (sectarian?) opposition to abortion.

Nor is anyone preventing pro-life Christians from listening to the vegetarian and vegan voices (past and present) in their own biblical tradition.

In the April 1995 issue of Harmony: Voices for a Just Future, a peace and justice periodical on the religious left, Catholic civil rights activist Bernard Broussard concludes:

"...our definition of war is much too limited and narrow. Wars and conflicts in the human kingdom will never be abolished or diminished until, as a pure matter of logic, it includes the cessation of war between the human and animal kingdoms.

"For, if we be eaters of flesh, or wearers of fur, or participants in hunting animals, or in any way use our might against weakness, we are promoting, in no matter how seemingly insignificant a fashion, the spirit of war."

Nor is anyone preventing pro-life Christians from listening to vegetarians and vegans throughout history!

The Table of Contents to Rynn Berry's 1993 book, Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes: Lives & Lore from Buddha to the Beatles, includes:

Pythagoras; Gautama the Buddha; Mahavira; Plato (and Socrates); Plutarch; Leonardo the Vinci; Percy Shelley; Count Leo Tolstoy; Annie Besant; Mohandas Gandhi; George Bernard Shaw; Bronson Alcott; Adventist physician Dr. John Harvey Kellogg; Henry Salt; Frances Moore Lappe; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Malcolm Muggeridge, and Brigid Brophy.

Nor is anyone preventing pro-life Christians from listening to secular vegetarians and vegans today.

"A world of authors, philosophers, and scientists -- including Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, St. Francis of Assisi, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, and Alice Walker -- are or were vegetarians. Nowadays, there are countless celebrities -- actors, writers, athletes, thinkers -- who have embraced the ecological sanity and compassion of the vegetarian diet.

"A number of these people have been outspoken. Among celebrity vegetarians are:

"Film stars Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Brad Pitt, Richard Gere, Jude Law, Josh Hartnett, Gwyneth Paltrow, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Ryan Gosling, Kim Basinger, and Dustin Hoffman.

"Recording artists Dr. Dre, the B52s, Paul and the late Linda McCartney, Chrissie Hynde, Joaquin Phoenix, Andre3000 Meatloaf, Peter Gabriel, kd lang, Elvis Costello, and Melissa Etheridge.

"Models Brooke Shields, Christy Turlington, Cindy Jackson, and Christie Brinkley.

"Sports stars Hank Aaron; B.J. Armstrong, Andreas Cahling, Sally Eastall, Sylvia Cranston, Chris Campbell, Aaron Pryor, Edward Moses, Robert de Castella, Anton Innauer, and Killer Kowalski."

--excerpted from The Higher Taste: A Guide to Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking and a Karma-Free Diet (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 2006).

Nor is anyone preventing these Christians from joining any number of secular animal rights and welfare organizations: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA); In Defense of Animals (IDA); Friends of Animals (FoA); Last Chance for Animals; Mercy for Animals; Vegan Action; Vegan Outreach, etc.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is challenging those who think they can still be "meat-eating environmentalists" to go vegan, if they really care about the planet.

peta2 is now the largest youth movement of any social change organization in the world.

peta2 has 267,000 friends on MySpace and 91,000 Facebook fans.

A few years ago, PETA was the top-ranked charity when a poll asked teenagers which nonprofit group they would most want to work for.

PETA won by more than a two to one margin over the second place finisher, The American Red Cross, with more votes than the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity combined.

Pete Cohn of Veggie Jews (in San Francisco, CA) once told me Rabbi Michael Lerner (founder, Network of Spiritual Progressives) focuses on Palestinian issues, not animal rights!

But in November 2007 (shortly before moving to Israel), Pete said to me, "PETA's not Jewish."

Secular arguments (religion-neutral) apply to everyone, including atheists and agnostics.

Your freedoms are limited by someone else's rights. You no longer have the "freedom of choice" to lynch blacks or commit domestic violence, or hate crimes against LGBTs.

Liberals concede abortion is not merely a "religious" issue, but a secular human rights issue, admitting, "We might be violating someone else's rights."

Few conservatives admit we're violating the self-evident rights of billions of animals every day!

They obsess over the silent screams of the unborn (and with the unborn lacking a brain or central nervous system in the earlier stages of prenatal development, it might be merely a reflex action), while ignoring the very real screams of animals.

They obsess over protecting mentally handicapped children while silent about experiments on chimpanzees.

Religious pro-lifers dictate to those outside of their faith... but react with disbelief ("God!") when told it's wrong to kill animals.

If their interpretation of Christianity "exempts" these Christians from protecting animals, are pro-choice Christians similarly exempt from protecting the unborn?

If you carry pro-life Christian sectarianism to its logical conclusion, religious pro-lifers can't oppose abortion, either, if someone else's religion permits it!

Religious pro-lifers complain protecting unborn children is depicted inaccurately by feminists, progressives, the secular news media, online and offline, etc. as a narrow, sectarian, conservative Christian issue rather than as a secular human rights issue which should concern everyone.

Thus, these religious pro-lifers (who dominate the pro-life movement!) must know it's wrong to similarly dismiss animal issues as sectarian.

Adolf Hitler thought Albert Einstein's scientific discoveries were mere "Jewish science" and thus not applicable to gentiles. Is this the way conservative Christians view vegetarianism?

(Ironically, many liberals see abortion as sectarian religious dogma!)

The number of animals killed for food in the United States is nearly 75 times larger than the number of animals killed in laboratories, 30 times larger than the number killed by hunters and trappers, and 500 times larger than the number of animals killed in animal pounds.

And issues like animal experimentation, circuses, fur, etc. have nothing to do with diet, eating, or food. The issue clearly IS the animals' right to life!

If the issue were merely "dietary laws," then:

1. Why would pro-lifers be offended by pro-choice vegetarians and vegans, unless its understood people go vegetarian for the animals' right to life, and thus these people appear to value animal life over human life under some circumstances?

2. Why would pro-lifers ask in jest if it's wrong to kill plants, unless it's understood people go vegetarian because they believe it's wrong to kill animals?

3. Why would pro-lifers bring up the thoroughly debunked myth that Hitler was a "vegetarian"...if not to discredit vegetarianism as a nonviolent philosophy toward animals and humans alike?

It's hypocritical for pro-life Republicans to attack the animal rights movement for not being officially pro-life when they allow their own political party to remain a "big tent" on abortion for fear of losing votes.

It doesn't occur to them that the animal rights movement faces an identical political reality?

The animal rights movement, representing a cross-section of mainstream American society, is divided on abortion.

Maria Krasinski, whom I met through Democrats For Life, was relieved to hear this in 1999, saying before she was under the mistaken impression animal activists are all pro-choice, and she thus felt she could not support their views.

Pro-life and pro-animal groups emerged during the 1990s. I encourage you to join us!

Les Brown of the Overseas Development Council calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only ten percent per year, it would free at least twelve million tons of grain for human consumption -- or enough to feed sixty million people.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.9.12 @ 7:08PM

No one cares, Sir Spamalot. PETEA: People Eating Tasty Animals.

typical white woman| 2.9.12 @ 7:55PM

I am puzzled, what has your lengthy diatribe got to do with Ms. Obama's interference with Americans' diet? Personally I choose not to eat meat, but I do enjoy seafood, eggs, some dairy.

While growing up in Europe, our family had one meatless day per week, no exception. We also raised our own veggies and fruits.

Ms. Obama is as phony as a $3 bill. It is reported that she inhales expensive steak, lobster, and sweets, while preaching to we the people about obesity. BTW has anybody else noticed that she hasn't been pictured sucking on an ice cream cone since her trip to Spain? Someone must have decided it didn't look good, especially since her "caboose" is still noticable.

skip| 2.10.12 @ 5:17PM

It is no more difficult to determine what a charlatan and what a reprobate you are than it is to read your statement above:

"I'll be honest with you: we humans can't end abortion until we cease to kill animals."

Butch| 2.7.12 @ 5:10PM

Give 'em the Texas Stakehouse Vegetarian Special: a bale of hay.

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 6:54AM

i'm of the opinion that's THEIR business; what, exactly, makes it YOURS?

Fracaca Tooeasy| 2.7.12 @ 10:45AM

WHITE. FAT. OLD. UGLY.

These words just about sum up the readership of American SpeculatorBlackHater.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:53AM

Vapid, insipid & childish. These word sum up the regressive trolls who vandalize Am Spec with their nonsensical screeds.

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:16AM

Hi Conjob, nothing of import cross your mind? No surprise there!

sheheheep| 2.8.12 @ 1:42PM

s.p.:

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StanO| 2.9.12 @ 1:02PM

You could at simplistic to that too.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:28AM

lets see, of Amerind, Phillipino, Irish and Germna desent. brown skin, black eyes, black hair. 5'8" at 145 lbs. age 52.

and that makes one white, fat, old and ugly?

and i did NOT say i was handsome.

blackhater?

the old hatecard. thats right! when you have nothing to say, bring out the hatecard or racecard or class warfare card.

in othr words, PROJECT YOUR failings on others.

fracaca tooeasy. fried shat is easy?

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 2:45PM

They can't go without throwing the RAAAAACIST bomb!

Sheila| 2.7.12 @ 1:23PM

There was recently a thread at ONESTDV debating the black's equivalent of the forbidden "n----r" word when attempting to insult Whites. Your comment fits nicely. Calling a White "racist" or "hater" may terrify the standard DWL (of which there are many here), but for a race-realist and HBD advocate like myself, it elicits a yawn. Any more insults you want to throw and see if they'll stick? Go right ahead.

Given the black predilection for "created" names, yours might well be "Fracaca" or a variant thereof. You might want to look into the origins of "caca," honey.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 2:31PM

Never mind her/him/it....HHI is just a product of the Protected Class mentality as demonstrated by casually throwing around the racist accusations.

They should be pitied and studied. Nothing more!

Skippy| 2.7.12 @ 6:17PM

I am proud to be called a racist.
It says everything about them and nothing about me.

Gary| 2.7.12 @ 1:59PM

Of course YOUR generalization about Spectator followers is not bigoted, and is based on scientific studies. We all know liberals are all kind, caring, objective people that have all the answers for humanity's woes, as long as the government provides the answers and the enforcement to implement them.

carol| 2.9.12 @ 2:28PM

Impolite, rude, arrogant and haven't a clue to what
people really think or feel. Satan has come to divide this nation asunder for his purposes and plan. Question is: Whom do you serve?The line is
being drawn and we as individuals will make the choice.

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:10PM

Stanford grads have much more fun and our wives don't give head like Laura Bush or your mom.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:28PM

no your "wives" al all polesmoking, rump ranging, street walkers. only thing is, they give it away for free!

fckewe| 2.9.12 @ 2:59AM

She is free and she DOES smoke My pole! How much do you have to pay YOUR wife to lay there and take it Devilboy?

Are you a selfish leper, or do you let her keep the tip?

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 6:55AM

and he doesn't mind living in your mommy's basement with you? he's a keeper, alright!

Appleby| 2.7.12 @ 6:56AM

Marie Antoinette strikes again. As she and her consort strut in front of the starving peasants, perhaps they ought to give a thought to where their role models ended up.

And if our boring friend Mitt had any sense of his own, or his handlers had their ear to the ground, one or other of them would add to the boring recital of talking points, "My wife will not nag you; and although she spends the equivalent of your entire annual salary on one outfit, she will not wear it when I am giving speeches about how WE have to tighten OUR belts. My wife will wear a good Republican cloth coat and dress from Wal-Mart when she goes down for her photo-op with The Poor."

Harry L.| 2.7.12 @ 9:16AM

Rave on, pig.

Here in Charleston, a convention of Emergency Medical Technicians convened last week, and the streets were full of porkers.

All of them wore blue uniforms stretched across their bloated bellies, and it looked to me like the fabric might rip at any moment.

The women's asses were as broad as a washing machine, and nearly every one of them was munching on something or drining from a giant cup as they surveyed Charleston's gorgeous sights.

Disgusting! They were a blight on our landscape, and we were glad to see the last of them.

Medical technicians! Hippos and hogs with insatiable appetites.

Fat epidemic? Hell YES! And it's getting worse with each passing year.

Kudos for Michelle Obama for trying to do something about it.

TW in SC| 2.7.12 @ 9:29AM

Harry, your point is well-taken. There is an obesity problem in the US. However, "Kudos for Michelle for trying to do something about it." is a misguided approach.

She, first of all, doesn't practice what she preaches. Second, she's a fat cow too.

One way for a celebrity to "sell" the weight loss schtick is to...well...actually lose weight. Think Kirstie Alley. Also, it helps to be a bit humble and admit how hard it is to do something. This is not Mrs Obama's forte at all.

Lastly, she's an angry woman with a penchant for trying to prove how much better she is than anyone else. Her expensive tastes only serve to reinforce that. Kudos to her for spending all our money on crap like parties, plane trips, vacations, clothes, etc etc etc while the country is, by her hubby's own statement, "in the worst economic times since the great depression".

typical white woman| 2.9.12 @ 8:05PM

Well said indeed! With Moochelle it is all about payback. She fails to appreciate that she has already been paid back, going to the best schools, landing a highly paid job due to affirmative action and now being the first "lady". She has to live it up and rub it in. The only thing she has no control over is class which she lacks entirely.

VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 9:44AM

Harry, apparently you have unwanted fat between your ears. If you want to lick your master's boots, leave the rest of us out of this.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:00AM

So why don't you eat your tofu & leave the rest of the the hell alone, moron?

People with the palates of a camel's asshole should not presume to lecture us on what's healthy or not. Nor should the government. Mind your own f-ing business, do-gooder. Keep your face outta my food bowl. You AND Angela Davis Jr.

just me| 2.7.12 @ 11:16AM

First of all before she became 1st lady she was quite fat, now that she uses TAX PAYERS MONEY she can afford the more expensive foods, WE CAN'T, ........ she preaches and she is still fat with all her two face speeches.......

SUBVET| 2.7.12 @ 1:25PM

Do you think SHE eats the same GMO food we get?

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:07PM

Then get a JOB if you can't afford FOOD. or spend yur crack bucks on some.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:30PM

everyone did your mom,

we have jobs. and it aint at nambla like yours.

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:07PM

Then get a JOB if you can't afford FOOD. or spend yur crack bucks on some.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 3:52PM

I CAN afford Prime beef, Berkshire pork, imported prosciutto & serrano, amongst other things. Do you even know what that stuff is without Googling it, Sheep Banger?

fckewe| 2.9.12 @ 3:01AM

Then why are there so many Alpo cans in your trash? (I have a friend at the ATF. They've been watching you)

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:31PM

everyonedidyourmom,

job? you mean the ones you give at nambla? hand and oral

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:45AM

NB,

they have no loife so they must get in ours to make them think they have lives.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 11:54AM

Too bad they don't realize that the food THEY like, pizza rolls, frozen mac & cheese & hamburger helper, are on Angela Davis Jr's list as well.

Sad little children.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:05PM

of course they dont. they never get to see what thier master eat. they have seperate table for the masters and the willing slaves.

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:18AM

And Mickey Mouse's guest menu too!

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.7.12 @ 10:09AM

I would suggest to Her Excellency, the Bow Legged Queen: "Physician, heal thyself".

Let she who is without a FAT ASS, cast the fist Salad with the Fat Free Dressing, and the Sea Salt.

Here's this Fat *ssed piece of Ghetto Trash, telling the rest of us what we can eat, and how we must all Share in the MISERY, of her Husband's Marxist Policies, while she shovels Stuffed Pork Chops, and Gravy Covered Cheese Fries, down her Fat, Stupid Mouth, as she lies on the Sun Drenched Beaches of a Tropical Paradise, ON OUR DIME.

Off with her Head!

(Figuratively, of course.)

ah shucks| 2.7.12 @ 10:30AM

Ghetto trash? You call our First Lady "ghetto trash"? How dare you!

It's for sure that you're white trash, and come from a long line of white trash ancestry.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:53AM

Really? Do you even know your Daddy?

loulou| 2.7.12 @ 11:34AM

Of course he doesn't know his daddy. The whole "family" of bast*rds are living on the dole, I guarantee.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 11:42AM

Yeah, that's what I'm guessing.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:43AM

ah shucks;

the first blimp IS ghetto trash.

now lets hear it! white racist! right?

lets see. was raised on the RES! so how many white racists on the RES? do you know what the RES is? it is the Reservations!

oh and " how dare i"? really quite simple.
1. its the truth
2.i am not an emasculated feminist
3. US Marine
4. dont care if i offend you or not. actually will laugh wen you get offended

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:06PM

An emasculated BAM? Opinions are never truth. You take 2 Viagarrrrrrrrra to day? You seem kinda bloodless in the brrrrrrrrain stem there jarrrrrrrhead.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 3:53PM

He's not the one who's handle indicates his favorite hobby, Sheep Banger.

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:19AM

it's a sport and you are My prey Conjob!

sheheheep| 2.8.12 @ 1:50PM

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fckewe| 2.9.12 @ 3:02AM

Are you into your molesters meds again? Your mommy shouldn't leave them out. I didn't know her morning after abortion pills would make you stutter AND lisp.

flockheeheehee| 2.9.12 @ 4:26PM

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DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:38PM

mymomisFREE,

emasculated? you cant be emasculated when you never had any

opinions? like assholes, everyone has them. but they are ALL you got. and like assholes, yours stinks and is made of the same stuff

viagra? whats that? a new drug you do? how many different drugs does that make?

bloodless? yes you are. see, you actually went out in public once and had the blood scared out of you by a widdle puddytat.

brainstem? have more intelligence in my brainstem than you have in you entire body

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:20AM

Thank you for proving My point dogbreath!

fckewe| 2.9.12 @ 3:03AM

Do you know where your brainstem is?

SUBVET| 2.7.12 @ 1:33PM

SHUCKS....you will be part of the masses that will wake up after the dust settles and want to know what the hell just happened.
Are you trying to defend her position or her ancestery. To respect the position you have to give it.............as far as her ancestery goes I don't think Tim meant any thing bad.........right TLP.

Manya Shochet| 2.7.12 @ 10:41AM

"fist Salad"? Is that anything like a knuckle sandwich?

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 3:00PM

Rage on Tim! You speak for many of us dude.

Lyneuss Fields | 2.7.12 @ 10:39AM

And the lady popped-off 25 push-ups in front of Ellen DeGeneres' audience. Hey mister Goldstein, why don't you get your fat ass on the floor? Can your back take it?

loulou| 2.7.12 @ 11:35AM

But those push-ups didn't help her thunder thighs, did it? And what about her steatopygia and her perpetual baby bump?

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:48AM

you called those pushups? really? in the Marine Corps we would let the troops do those all the time. when they were done, we would tell them, "NOW, do some REAL PUSHUPS!"

and i want to see her do some bends and thrusts!

i bet she cant even touch her toes.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:48AM

you called those pushups? really? in the Marine Corps we would let the troops do those all the time. when they were done, we would tell them, "NOW, do some REAL PUSHUPS!"

and i want to see her do some bends and thrusts!

i bet she cant even touch her toes.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:40AM

harry l'

a convention of michelle gorrila cookies in blue uniforms?

wow! and the ground didnt open up and swallow them? what was the readings on the richter scale?

karla| 2.9.12 @ 6:10PM

You're correct, Harry.

All First Ladies have a cause they promote and I don't remember any of them being attached so viciously as Mrs. Obama has been attacked, all because she wants to promote healthy eating by children.

People even insult her weight. I think she is gorgeous and no where near overweight. If people don't like her policies, fine. but stop insulting her over an issue that doesn't exist.

Delta Zelda| 2.7.12 @ 2:11PM

Moochelle did not get her big backside by eating broccoli from the White House garden. I understand that a lot of black men really like ladies with big backsides.

Maxwell| 2.7.12 @ 7:48AM

I remember long ago when Joe Black (yes, that Joe Black of Dodger fame) was my gym teacher and he had both the Hour of Power on Wednesdays and Happy Hour. If you did not give 100% during the Hour of Power you were 'invited' back for Happy Hour. That kind of gym experience today would get a teacher fired.

TommyS| 2.7.12 @ 7:48AM

I have only one thing to say to mchelle antoinette: BUTT OUT LADY!! MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND LEAVE MINE ALONE.

The American people don't want you and your husband spending every waking minute trying to come up with ways to do something else for us so we will feel good about you and keep you in your jets, expensive outfits, and paying for your elaborate vacations and entertainment.

Harry L.| 2.7.12 @ 9:18AM

TommyS,

I'll bet your ass is as broad as a dumpster. Yeah, I bet you can really chow down.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:09AM

I'll bet you're a frail as a twig & likely to blow away in a stiff breeze. And wouldn't know good food if it jumped up & bit you in the ass, rube.

Trauta Veener-Ritzel| 2.7.12 @ 10:47AM

Eat shit and die, Con Chef. You're full of it.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:54AM

Wow. I stand in awe of your devestating rhetorical castigation of me. You must be the star pupil of your special ed class.

loulou| 2.7.12 @ 11:36AM

Wow. The Moochelle crazies are really out in force today!

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:53AM

kraut weiner swizzle

eat shat and die? why would anyone want to emulate what you call food?

and die? one day i will. unlike you gutless cowards who think they will live forever.

full of it? so one who advocates for FREEDOM and LIBERTY is full of it? if you mean full of patriotism, self responsibility, integrity, courage? then YES NB is full of it.

now isnt it past you local socialist party meeting?

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:03PM

Are you holding your "you're a frail, twiggy & likely to blow away in a stiff breeze" penis while you type? Something made you think about it.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 3:54PM

I didn't write "penis," Sheep Banger. Methinks thou dost project too much.

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 6:59AM

fckewe has an obsession with men's genitalia; one hopes he'll outgrow it when the Pubert Fairy makes a visit

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:42PM

frail,twiggy? you holding your boyfriends third leg again BOY? or did you just finish it off and it is now frail.

stiff breeze? is that what you two lovers call it? polesmoking is a stiff breeze?

penis? how many can you swallow at once? wait dont answer! dont care cause it wont be mine. penis envy is such a drag aint it BOY? wish you were born with one and try to make up for it by swallowing everyone in sight

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 11:49AM

harry l,

or should that be hairy loser?

i will take that bet! what say about $10,000.00?

put up or shut up BOY!

fckewe| 2.9.12 @ 3:07AM

If I were you, I'd video you pulling that train with your mouth. I am sure you can make a little cash in the gay porn circles. That is AFTER you earn the $10K for the bet blowing 2 brigades of Marines in 24 hours.

My GF takes a Zantac before her gangbangs because cum gives her heartburn. She learned that trick from your BFFItA Conjob

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 6:58AM

and if it is, what business is that of yours-are you trolling for a hookup or something?

TW in SC| 2.7.12 @ 9:32AM

I'm no fan...and it seems especially appropriate in these times of "coming together" with no divisiveness in the nation. Especially no racial divisiveness, that Ludacris probably wrote this just for Michelle: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics.....bitch.html

VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 9:46AM

TammyS, I'll bet that you spend $600 on a girdle? For Muchelle, that just covered the cost of the fabric.

VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 9:48AM

Correction: I meant that you don't spend $600 on a girdle. I am assuming TommyS is female from the comment and I called you Tammy. My bad, sorry.

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:04PM

WOW, I am glad to see that "No Child Left Behind" has a poster boy.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:43PM

mymommyisFREE,

you are the poster child for what yourt parents did to you?

who cares? they should have made sure you werent found.

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:23AM

Too late now, just take you PTSD pills before I get you gizzard in a twist, squidbait.

POST American| 2.7.12 @ 8:17AM

---AGAIN---

We fully expect, somewhere around 2020,
as we're ALLL shivering in FEMA camps
and droppping like flies from sterilizing
injections, tainted water, and Monsanto
GMO food ---FOX News will chirpily let out the
secret that Obama was ---IN FACT-- our
first stealth clone President.

He was, afterall, sort of a capstone
EUGENIST homage to RED China sellout
artist supreme --Averelll Harriman.

Compare the photos and see for yourself.

NOW

--------------------SAVE THIS POST-------------------

IF we're wrong ---we'll give you a week's
ration of bisphenol A saturated toilet paper.

AND YOU WILL REJOICE.

---------------WE GUARANTEE IT!

tootaloo| 2.7.12 @ 9:19AM

I'm rejoicing right now!

Love your poetry.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 10:17AM

Geesh. Yet another attack on bisphenol A saturated toilet paper.

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

The Bruce| 2.7.12 @ 9:11PM

"...FOX News will chirpily let out the
secret that Obama was ---IN FACT-- our
first stealth clone President."

Now that had me laughing out loud.

Alice Moore| 2.7.12 @ 8:20AM

Interesting how she got all defensive about the Red Velvet cake. I think she had that coming after giving Leno the third degree about his veggies and fiber.

TW in SC| 2.7.12 @ 9:34AM

She has "Red Velvet Cake" and Toby Keith has "Red Solo Cup".

ah shucks| 2.7.12 @ 9:44AM

And you have Little Debbie Cakes, by the crate.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:01AM

And what do YOU eat, rube? Tofurkey?

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:24AM

Don't you gay guys call it Faux Turkey Conjob?

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:24AM

Just like Faux News and Faux patriot and Faux american.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:07PM

ass chunks,

that would be a step up from your dumpster diving BOY

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.7.12 @ 8:38AM

I don't know about you, but I take great joy in being told what to Eat, by a Woman who needs a lubricant to get that Sack of Potatoes ASS of hers, in to her $300 Pair of Pants.

I enjoy hearing about her Fashion Sense, and how she's way ahead of the Curve, when it comes to the Trending Styles, each time she steps out in one of her Ensembles that, apparently, she found in the trunk of a Klown Kar at the Circus.

I like the way she shows up at the Food Kitchen in $600 Sneakers. I like her $3,000 Handbags, and her $2,500 Gowns, and all of that Sparkling Jewelry, as she and her husband preach the Gospel of: SHARED SACRAFICE.

I love the idea that "I've never been Proud of my Country". I love her Heartfelt Words during a Remembrance Ceremony at the World Trade Center, when a Microphone picked up her words: "All this for a Flag?"

I love how she Entertains all of their Hollywood Friends and her Husband's Millionaire and Billionaire Buddies, at their many Gala Parties, filled with Champagne, Iranian Caviar, and the Finest Cuts of Meat anywhere on the planet, as the 90% live Paycheck to Paycheck, if they're lucky enough to even have a JOB.

I admire her lack of any sense of Shame, in the way she takes a JUMBO JET of her own, to jet off on one of her Million Dollar Vacations, instead of waiting til her husband is ready, so that they can travel together in one Jumbo Jet.

I like how she defends herself against the claims that she is an "Angry Black Woman". Good for her. You go Girl. That's not what you are.

You're way too Uppity for that.

Nancy in NC| 2.7.12 @ 8:48AM

Remarks like that will get you on a list somewhere. I'm sure you will be in exalted company.

juhgogo dong| 2.7.12 @ 9:22AM

Scarf it up off the floor, hog.

Then blow a heart valve for Jesus!

juhgogo dong| 2.7.12 @ 9:23AM

The above remark is aimed at Timoth L. Pennell.

(The L stands for lyer and loser.)

posSEEblee| 2.7.12 @ 9:27AM

Most of the posters on this site need their asses liposuctioned.

They've already had quadruple bypass on their hearts.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:03AM

And most of the loser trolls here think that a salad at Mickey D's or Lean Cuisine is fine dining. Don't y'all have some veggie burgers to cram up each other's asses?

TW in SC| 2.7.12 @ 10:13AM

Yeah, well, that'll all change when O-dumbass care kicks in and nobody will get bypass operations.

Really, though, you've spent an inordinate amount of time throwing ad-hominem bombs at people who you don't know, have never seen and obviously cannot understand.

Before you got "Oh, you all fat n' sh*t, bro...gnome sayin?" on me...I'm 6' 225lbs and work out everyday. I eat what I want. I'm lucky that way but moderation is important but I would never presume to tell others, except my kids, how to eat. Once they're grown, they're on their own.

You, on the other hand, seem to delight in assuming everyone here who has a problem with Mrs Obama's hypocrisy is simply fat and lazy.

Why is that?

You haven't raised a substantive argument as poSEEblee, ah shucks, tinky peetee or juhgogo dog, which is probably some hip-hop slang BS that nobody here really cares to understand, so the only ones who "get the joke" are other malcontent, sophomoric mentally handicapped individuals such as yourself.

Pretty sure you're next retort will be something to the effect of, "Go eat more twinkies, you fat lard-ass" or something of equal value to the conversation.

Why don't you inquire further as to why people who are posting here feel this way? What have you to lose? Or do you just come here to throw rocks and create trouble. Or, you are unemployed and have nothing better to do and your porn account is suspended for non-payment because you can't get off your ass to get to the UE office to get the extension?

So what, exactly, is your problem?

loulou| 2.7.12 @ 11:38AM

"They've already had quadruple bypass on their hearts."

At OUR expense.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:07AM

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
― Anthony Bourdain

Vasu Murti | 2.9.12 @ 7:40PM

I beg to differ with your disdain for vegetarians and vegans. I live on the West Coast. Not only are vegetarians and vegans mainstream here, their views make sense!

The following points and facts are excerpted from Please Don't Eat the Animals (2007) by the mother-daughter writing team of Jennifer Horsman and Jaime Flowers:

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

--Albert Einstein

"Each year, the meat industrial complex abuses and butchers nearly nine billion cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, chickens, and other innocent, feeling animals just for the enjoyment of consumers.

"Each year, nearly 1.5 million of these consumers are crippled and killed prematurely by heart failure, cancer, stroke, and other chronic diseases that have been linked conclusively with the consumption of these animals.

"Each year, millions of other animals are abused and sacrificed in a vain search for a 'magic pill' that would vanquish these largely self-inflicted diseases."

--Alex Hershaft, PhD, president, Farm Animal Reform Movement

When analyzing 8,300 deaths in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany among 76,000 men and women in five different, large studies, researchers concluded that vegetarians have a 24 percent reduction in death from heart disease.

Similarly, in the famous Oxford Vegetarian Study, where 6,000 vegetarians were compared with 5,000 meat-eaters over nearly two decades, scientists found that the rate of death from heart disease was 28 percent lower in vegetarians than in meat-eaters.

One study analyzed eighty scientific studies in leading medical journals. The analysis found that vegetarians had lower blood pressure, and were less likely to suffer from stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure.

A large German study of nearly 2,000 vegetarians found that deaths from heart disease were reduced by over one-third, and that heart disease itself was far less than that of the general population.

Another large study examined the coronary artery disease risk of young adults ages 18 to 30 and vegetarians were found to have much higher levels of cardiovascular fitness and a greatly reduced risk of heart disease.

"The process of gradual blocking of the coronary arteries begins not in adulthood but in childhood... and the main cause of this arteriosclerosis is the steadily increasing amount of fat in the American diet, particularly saturated animal fats such as those found in meat, chicken, milk and cheeses.

"If there was another disease that caused half a million deaths a year, you can be sure that the public would be acutely aware of the danger, and that the cure or prevention would be universally practiced."

--Dr. Benjamin Spock, author, child expert

"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."

--Dr. Dean Ornish, author, Reversing Heart Disease

Stroke is the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Vegetarians have a twenty to thirty percent reduced risk of having a stroke. Stroke, like heart disease, is associated with diets high in saturated fats, and the vegetarian diet is naturally low in these fats.

The Oxford Vegetarian Study found cancer mortality to be 39 percent lower among vegetarians when compared with meat-eaters. The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer found vegetarians suffer forty percent fewer cancers than the general population.

Studies have shown that decreasing a woman's animal fat intake can reduce the chances that she will die from breast cancer.

A large-scale, long-term study in the Netherlands found a powerful connection between the amount of animal fat consumed and the rate of prostate cancer.

A review of a dozen studies found dietary fat strongly correlated with prostate cancer.

Ovarian, uterine, and endometrial cancers have all been shown to be strongly correlated to the amount of animal fat in one's diet, and vegetarian women have significantly lower rates of these cancers.

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all the natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."

--Dr. Neal Barnard, Executive Director, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

"Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rate of coronary disease of any group in the country. They have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only forty percent of our cancer rate."

---William Castelli, MD, Director, Framingham Heart Study

"Human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings..."

--Dr. William Roberts, editor-in-chief, American Journal of Cardiology

Les Brown of the Overseas Development Council calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only ten percent per year, it would free at least twelve million tons of grain for human consumption -- or enough to feed sixty million people.

Reverend Al Sharpton discusses his inspiration for going vegetarian:

http://www.thisdishisvegetaria.....s-his.html

There must be a moral or an ethical basis for one's vegetarianism, otherwise one is likely to backslide.

The medical data keeps changing, which causes opponents of animal liberation to react with amusement and an anti-semitic yawn.

They liken it to a scene in Woody Allen's 1973 movie, Sleeper, in which a natural food faddist placed unwillingly into suspended animation, wakes up two hundred years into the future, to find that what he'd thought would be the wave of the future, didn't happen...

...the foods that were thought to be unhealthy in the 20th century were found to be health-supporting in the 22nd century...

...and the number of hamburgers sold on the McDonald's sign have only increased considerably.

In the '70s, Dr. Tarnower's Scarsdale Diet had a vegetarian option which was practically vegan, as dairy products were excluded. But Dr. Tarnower permitted diet sodas without restriction, and nutritionalists now say artificial sweeteners (including artificial sweeteners like aspertame and sucralose which didn't exist in the '70s) should be consumed less frequently.

In The MacDougall Plan (1983), Dr. John MacDougall advocated a plant-based diet, high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, with no animal products, oil or salt. And no intoxication.

Keith Akers in A Vegetarian Sourcebook (1983), similarly said:

"Almost any vegetarian diet is an improvement over the typical Western diet, but the best diet of all would also eliminate refined and processed foods, as well as most (if not all) animal products -- in short, a total vegetarian (vegan), whole foods diet. This is a fairly radical claim, and one which should not be accepted uncritically..."

John Robbins' Pulitzer Prize nominated Diet for a New America (1987) makes veganism seem as reasonable and mainstream as recycling.

Beyond belief in karma, John Robbins shows in easy-to-read language, with charts and graphs, that most of the degenerative diseases plaguing the affluent West are self-inflicted wounds, and are virtually unknown in other parts of the world...

...and migration studies show that when persons immigrate to the United States and begin eating animal products in excess, they're plagued by the same diseases as everyone else. Genetics and heredity are not a discernible factor.

John Robbins' story is the alternative to the American dream.

John Robbins was heir to the Baskin-Robbins fortune. He renounced it at a young age, traveled to India, opened a yoga ashram in Canada with his wife Deo.

His son Ocean Robbins (born in 1973) founded Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) while he was still in high school, and is also dedicated to promoting veganism.

You see, even on the left there are "family values." Hinduism Today called John Robbins a modern-day Siddhartha.

When Diet for a New America was published, John Robbins received over 75,000 letters from readers across the United States. I gave an autographed copy to my friend Greg Sims for his 26th birthday in January 1989, and before he'd finished reading it, Greg became a vegetarian.

Greg and I heard John Robbins speak in Solana Beach, CA in July 1989. John Robbins said he'd recently appeared on the television talk show Geraldo... which indirectly indicates just how mainstream his vegan views in Diet for a New America really are.

John Robbins said the evidence continues to mount: autopsies on heart patients show saturated fat and cholesterol as the problem, not spinach and tofu! And that a diet high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, moderate in protein, and low in cholesterol is health supporting.

The Atkins diet (popular over a decade ago) went against the mounting evidence, although the sole purpose of the Atkins diet was not good health but quick weight loss.

When Dr. Atkins passed away, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) said his death was indicative of the dangers posed by the Atkins diet.

Peter Singer (author, Animal Liberation) himself admits his Introduction to Keith Akers' A Vegetarian Sourcebook:

"Despite all the books on vegetarianism, there is a need for a thoroughly reliable sourcebook covering all the main arguments for being a vegetarian of one sort or another. There cannot be a definitive book that will do this for all time, for new medical evidence keeps coming in, and the ecological situation and the treatment of farm animals are gradually changing."

At the World Vegetarian Day festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco, CA, in September 2000, Elliot Gang, a writer for the now-defunct Animals' Agenda told Gaverick Matheny of Vegan Action and myself that advocating vegetarianism for health reasons is comparable to saying, "Rape is wrong, because you might catch venereal disease."

No. In each case the moral reason is the real reason to abstain. Because we live in such a narcissistic society, it's not surprising people are won over by the health arguments first.

It's comparable to the bumper sticker which reads:

"Don't Drink And Drive: You Might Hit a Bump and Spill Your Drink"

Again: my understanding is there must be a moral basis for one's abstaining from meat, fish, fowl, etc., just like abstaining from cannibalism, because otherwise it's very easy to backslide.

As an example, in the late '80s, I met a woman volunteering with San Diego Animal Advocates. She said when she first became a vegetarian, she was doing so for health reasons, and didn't think a piece of turkey at Thanksgiving or Christmas would hurt her. But she said when she learned about factory farming, animal abuse, etc. she won't touch meat, period!

Congressman Dennis Kucinich first went vegan in the '90s, influenced by a past girlfriend. I've heard that Ingrid Newkirk (Executive Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) encourages vegans to sleep around, convince their significant other to go vegan, and then move on to someone else, to increase the number of vegans!

This could have unintended consequences: if the break-up is less than pleasant, one of the partners might return to meat-eating out of spite!

Again, a moral or ethical basis must be at the heart of one's vegetarianism. The nutritional data keeps changing...

...But as an ethic, vegetarianism or not harming animals, like pacifists or pro-lifers, has stood the test of time and has served as the basis for entire religious traditions.

Buddhism, Jainism, Pythagoreanism, and possibly early Christianity all immediately come to mind.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 | 757-622-PETA (7382) | Fax: 757-622-0457 (fax)

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:10PM

jugs on a hog with a dong,

so you telling us your eating habbits? why would you think yourself so important you have to announce to the world what you do?

and what does, Blow a heart valve for Jesus mean?

that you had a heart attack while blowing jesus from mexico? guess that guacamole sauce after it was reconstituted was still a bit spicy for you.

VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 9:51AM

Timothy, the $2,500 gown is just the cost of the material. She needed the jumbo jet, since she cannot fit on a private jet.

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 3:07PM

Well, I love Tim's posts. He's on the mark!

Mike Hawk| 2.7.12 @ 9:11AM

Moochelle my Butt should think a bit before she scarfs down her next pile of French fries and fatballs. Obama burgers are in there too. SHe is a two faced witch. BTW, get a sign for you back side, I suggest "Wide Load".

Anthony| 2.7.12 @ 9:14AM

Dear Madam Michelle Antoinette, I am in full support of your "Let's Move" initiative. I suspect however, with your ample assets, that you are well aware of Newton's principles of physics.
Once in motion girl, it's hard to stop.
May I suggest you and the Muslim Marxist lead by example and set the laws of physics in motion, by hustling your asses back to Kenya, and take your red velvet cake with you.
When you exit the White House, feel free to take the prayer rugs with you, a parting present from us to you, and do try not to empty the fridge out totally of the caviar, those tins hidden in the back of your pants will set off the alarms.

outtaToona| 2.7.12 @ 9:32AM

Pork chops, hamhocks, chitlins, fatback--this is the food of choice for the Wal-Mart food sluts on this page.

Y'all sho do enjoy white trash cookin' doncha! See ya in the soopahmahket at Wal-Mart. See ya soon, you obese goon.

Arriana| 2.7.12 @ 9:32AM

These readers eat fatback by the yard.

By the yard!

kop-a-top| 2.7.12 @ 9:35AM

And they love their sausage and egg biscuits for breakfast.

I've seen them leave Hardee's with grease all over their lips and a satisfied smile spreading across their choppers.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:04AM

And you queers eat where? And eating each other's buttholes doesn't count.

Anthony| 2.7.12 @ 10:48AM

Hmmm, our three lefty friends appear to have a distinct regional bias on their nasty shoulders, which they assume apply to all us folk at TAS.
Hey gourmets, does pasta al burro qualify as white trash food? How about fettuccine Alfredo with panchetta? Of course, I prefer them with a good Brunello, rather than Sprite, don't you?
And aren't you goose-steppers quaint, you have the Wal-Mart and Hardee's bias on your list of things to smash.
Here's hoping "Y'all" get a good ole fashioned ass-kicking, southern style, and damn soon.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:56AM

Again, we're talking about a crowd who no doubt thinks that a Wendy's salad is Mobile Five Diamond worthy.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:13PM

they dont eat AT Wendy's! they EAT WENDY!

they think soylent green is healthy.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 12:22PM

The way these idiots talk, that wouldn't surprise me at all.

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 3:10PM

Oh, those that come to the defense of our First Lady! Goodness you do get your panties in a knot over the truth being spoken! I guess it's easier not to know what they're really like.

Mickeybutane| 2.7.12 @ 9:31AM

In November 2012, the first wookie is going to be shoving the illegal big eared kenyan back up her 3 bedroom sized ass and taking him back to Chi town where they can tell the inhabitants their bloviating lines of shiite for all to be amazed and leave us the hell alone. Then we can put them on trial for treason and watch the fun begin. By the way, is her social security # from Connecticut, too? Did they get the package discount when they bought the both of them? Inquiring minds want to know....the plot thickens...Thanks Tim for your insights

J. W. Barf from Midoublesidoub| 2.7.12 @ 9:43AM

I likes my women fat. Lots of flab to grab when I makes love to them. Oh, how they squeal. Like pigs they do.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:06AM

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
― Anthony Bourdain

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 11:03AM

Hear, hear!!

I just hope Paula Deen doesn't buckle to her employer, the Socialist Food Network.

Paula, keep cooking with your 'butta' and 'suga'. I love her!!!

Oh, and it's none of my business the state of her medical condition. I do, however, wish her well.

I'm so flippin' tired of the hypocritical busy bodies ( see mrs. obama).

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 11:18AM

She already has. She's coming out with a healthy cookbook soon. Have you ever heard or read what Bourdain has to say about the Food Network? Besides his 2 buddies, Mario Batali & Michael Symon, he thinks that the Food Network is almost the Evil Empire. I'm inclined to agree. I only ever watch Iron Chef anymore.

Sheila| 2.7.12 @ 1:27PM

The Food Network's executives are big Obama supporters. They featured an Iron Chef episode using the White House chef and produce from the Wookie's garden. They had a "Chopped" episode with school cafeteria workers and earnestly urged us all to eliminate "hunger" in America. They are an appalling network; don't give them your time or your dollars.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 1:35PM

Now, now. Wookies DO have a charming side to them as opposed to FLOTUS.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 2:28PM

I saw that episode. They didn't even use the stuff from the WH garden. That was pre taped.

Vasu Murti | 2.10.12 @ 12:23AM

"Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent..."

--Con Chef (NB)

If meat-eating is natural, why are nearly all meat-eaters unwilling to kill animals for their own meat?

Why do they prefer to pay someone else to kill the animal, while they purchase it neatly wrapped in plastic in the supermarket, take it home, cook it over heat, and season it with spices and condiments until it resembles vegetable food?

What kind of "omnivore" is that?!

"For modern animal agriculture, the less the consumer knows about what’s happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

"If true, is this an ethical situation? Should we be reluctant to let people know what really goes on, because we’re not really proud of it and concerned that it might turn them to vegetarianism?"

—Peter Cheeke, PhD, Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture, 2004 textbook

Conservative Christians cite secular arguments on non-Christians when it comes to protecting the unborn, but are often the first to cry "MOVE" when presented with secular arguments against the killing of animals for food, clothing, "sport," etc. -- e.g., the eating of meat.

Any and all Christians unaware of the spiritual dimension to vegetarianism and animal rights, really should read Every Creature a Word of God by Annika Spalde and Pelle Strindlund. (Vegetarian Advocates Press, Cleveland, OH, 2008)

"This book is beautifully written and carefully argued. It would be the perfect book for a Bible study or church study group," writes Stephen Webb, professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wabash College, and author of Good Eating and On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals.

The authors, Annika Spalde and Pelle Strindlund, are married animal and antinuclear activists involved in the Lutheran Church in Sweden.

Annike Spalde is an ordained Lutheran minister. She and husband Pelle Strindlund write:

"This is a book about being Christian in a world shared with other beings. We do not live here alone. We have brothers and sisters. 'The animals,' wrote the American monk Thomas Merton (1915-68), 'are the children of God.'

"What does a spirituality that affirms God's love for all creatures look like? That is the central question of this book.

"The animal rights movement is a recent development, but Christian concern for animals is not. We see it in the stories of medieval monks who helped hares and deer escape from hunters, and of desert hermits who offered water to thirsty donkeys. In these pages you will discover the rich history of animal-friendly living and theology within the Christian tradition...

"This book is a result of years of reflection on our relationship to other species...over coffee in church halls, fellow worshippers have challenged us: Haven't we been given animals for our use? Didn't Jesus eat meat? Such questions have forced us to ask if and how compassion for animals can be an embodiment of the Christian faith.

"The book is also an answer to the question we have received from many of our friends in the peace movement:

How can you focus on animals when so many humans are suffering?"

The answer to that question, of course, is that raising and killing animals for food is the underlying cause of many social injustices... and vegetarianism is the solution to each of these crises.

Conservative Christians act as if they've never encountered a vegetarian before, even though vegetarianism has attracted some of the greatest minds in history.

The Table of Contents to Rynn Berry's 1993 book, Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes: Lives & Lore from Buddha to the Beatles includes:

Pythagoras: "ancient Greek religious teacher."

Gautama the Buddha: "ancient Indian savant and religious teacher."

Mahavira: "historical founder of the world's oldest vegetarian religion -- the Jains of India."

Plato (and Socrates): "Pythagorean philosophers who are the founders of the Western philosophical tradition."

Plutarch: "ancient essayist and biographer, famous for his Lives of notable Greeks and Romans."

Leonardo da Vinci: "Italian Renaissance man; Leonardo is one of Western Civilization's greatest geniuses."

Percy Bysshe Shelley: "scientist, classicist, aesthete, Shelley was probably the most gifted English Romantic poet."

Leo Tolstoy: "Nineteenth century Russian author, Tolstoy is considered to be the world's greatest novelist."

Annie Besant: "Nineteenth century English social reformer and spiritual leader...at once a feminist, a labor leader, a theosophist, a freethinker, a devoted mother and a founder of the planned parenthood movement. She is one of the most remarkable women of modern times."

Mohandas Gandhi: "Indian civic and spiritual leader; inventor of the hunger strike; architect of Indian independence; father of modern India."

George Bernard Shaw: "Celebrated wit; peerless music and drama critic; essayist and dramatist of genius."

Bronson Alcott: "American transcendentalist philosopher; father of Louisa May Alcott; founder of the first vegetarian commune, Fruitlands."

Adventist physician Dr. John Harvey Kellogg: "World-class surgeon, pioneering nutritionist, and food inventor extraordinaire. Kellogg invented peanut butter, flaked cereals, and the first meat substitutes made from nuts and grains."

Henry Salt: "Venerable figure in the vegetarian movement; author of such vegetarian classics as Seventy Years Among the Savages, and Animal Rights."

Frances Moore Lappe: "Author of Diet for a Small Planet, Lappe's two million copy 1971 bestseller put vegetarianism on the map, and awakened Westerners to the nutritional and economic benefits of a vegetarian diet."

Isaac Bashevis Singer and Malcolm Muggeridge are described as the first major literary figures in the West to turn vegetarian since Tolstoy.

Brigid Brophy: "Noted for her formidable intellect, Brigid Brophy is an English novelist, biographer, and critic of the first rank. She is the first major woman novelist to become a vegetarian."

Ethical considerations influenced Benjamin Franklin, who became a vegetarian at age sixteen. Franklin noted "greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension." In his autobiographical writings, he called flesh-eating "unprovoked murder."

The poet Percy Shelley was a committed vegetarian. In his essay, A Vindication of Natural Diet, he wrote:

"Let the advocate of animal food... tear a living lamb with his teeth and, plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood... Then, and only then only, would he be consistent."

Shelley's interest in vegetarianism began when he was a student at Oxford, and he and his wife Harriet took up the diet soon after their marriage.

In a letter dated March 14, 1812, his wife wrote to a friend, "We have foresworn meat and adopted the Pythagorean system."

Shelley, in his poem "Queen Mab," described a world where humans do not kill animals for food:

"...no longer now
"He slays the lamb that looks him in the face
"And horribly devours his mangled flesh
"Which, still avenging Nature's broken law
"Kindled all putrid humors in his frame
"All evil passions, and all vain belief
"Hatred, despair, and loathing in his mind
"The germs of misery, death disease and crime"

"It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action," wrote Mohandas Gandhi. "I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage."

Gandhi wrote several books in which he discussed vegetarianism. His own daily diet included wheat sprouts, almond paste, greens, lemons, and honey.

Gandhi founded Tolstoy Farm, a community based on vegetarian principles.

In his Moral Basis of Vegetarianism, Gandhi wrote:

"I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it...

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."

"If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat."

--actress Kim Basinger

Describing his reaction to a visit to a slaughterhouse, Canadian tennis champion Peter Burwash wrote in A Vegetarian Primer:

"I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half of my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court...

"But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never harm an animal again!

"I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism."

"...the whole point of life is to harmonize with everything, every aspect of creation. That means down to not killing the flies, eating the meat, killing people or chopping the trees down."

--George Harrison

Kim Bartlett of Animal People in Clinton, WA, similarly writes:

"Something to think about: We believe that the Golden Rule applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion that 'people come first' or that 'people are more important than animals.'

"Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way around.

"Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals -- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to believe that humans are superior to other animals.

"If people want to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like to be treated ourselves."

Food expert Frances Moore Lappe, author of the 1971 bestseller Diet for a Small Planet, once said in a television interview that we should look at a piece of steak as if it were a Cadillac.

"What I mean," she explained, "is that we in America are hooked on gas-guzzling automobiles because of the illusion of cheap petroleum. Likewise, we got hooked on a grain-fed, meat-centered diet because of the illusion of cheap grain."

The process of using grain to produce meat is incredibly wasteful: the USDA's Economic Research Service shows that we receive only one pound of beef for each sixteen pounds of grain.

In his book Proteins: Their Chemistry and Politics, Dr. Aaron Altschul notes that in terms of calorie units per acre, a diet of grains, vegetables, and beans will support twenty times as many people than a meat-centered diet.

As it stands now, about half of the harvested acreage in America and in a number of European, African, and Asian countries is used to feed animals.

If the earth's arable land were used primarily for the production of vegetarian foods, the planet could easily support a human population several times its present size.

Facts and points such as these have led food experts to point out that the world hunger problem is largely illusory. The Global Hunger Alliance writes:

"Most hunger deaths are due to chronic malnutrition caused by inequitable distribution and inefficient use of existing food resources.

"At the same time, wasteful agricultural practices, such as the intensive livestock operations known as factory farming, are rapidly polluting and depleting the natural resources upon which all life depends.

"Trying to produce more foods by these methods would lead only to more water pollution, soil degradation and hunger."

A report submitted to the United Nations World Food Conference concurs: "The overconsumption of meat by the rich means hunger for the poor.

"This wasteful agriculture must be changed -- by the suppression of feedlots where beef are fattened on grains, and even a massive reduction of beef cattle."

People Oppose Eating Animals for the Identical Reason They Oppose Experimenting Upon Animals: Stop Animal Testing!

Less than two percent of human illnesses (1.16%) are found in animals. Over 98% never affect animals. The former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences says animal tests and human results agree: "Five percent to twenty-five percent of the time."

Among the hundreds of techniques available instead of animal experiments, the cell culture toxicology methods are 80-85% accurate.

Rats are 37% effective in identifying the cause of cancer in humans – guessing is more accurate. The experimenters said: “we would have been better off to have tossed a coin."

In the UK over 69,000 people are killed or severely disabled every year by unexpected reactions to drugs. All these drugs passed animal tests.

In the UK's House Of Lords questions were raised, asking why unexpected reactions to drugs (which passed animal tests) kill more humans than cancer.

88% of stillbirths are caused by drugs which passed animal tests.

Nearly 75% of drugs which cause human birth defects are safe in pregnant monkeys.

78% of fetus-damaging chemicals can be detected by one non-animal test.

Blood transfusions were delayed two centuries by animal studies.

Thirty HIV vaccines, 33 spinal cord damage drugs, and over 690 treatments for stroke have been developed in animals. None of them help humans.

Only 45% of animal researchers believe animal experiments are necessary.

The Director of the UK Research Defence Society, (pro-vivisection) was asked if medical progress could be made without animals. His written admission: "I am sure it could be."

Veganism Is Direct Action!

"A diet that can lead to heart attacks, cancer, and numerous other diseases cannot be a natural diet," writes Keith Akers in A Vegetarian Sourcebook (1983).

"A diet that pillages our resources of land, water, forests, and energy cannot be a natural diet. A diet that causes the unnecessary suffering and death of billions of animals each year cannot be a natural diet."

I understand there are conservative Christians who fear vegetarianism...which is kind of like being afraid of nonsmoking, nondrinking, or recycling.

Ronald J. Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action, in his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, pointed out that 220 million Americans were eating enough food (largely because of the high consumption of grain fed to livestock) to feed over one billion people in the poorer countries.

A pamphlet put out by Compassion Over Killing says raising animals for food is one of the leading causes of both pollution and resource depletion today.

According to a 2006 United Nations report, Livestock's Long Shadow, raising chickens, turkeys, pigs, and other animals for food causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks and other forms of transportation combined.

Researchers from the University of Chicago similarly concluded that a vegetarian diet is the most energy efficient, and the average American does more to reduce global warming emissions by not eating animal products than by switching to a hybrid car.

"Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation."

--Union Nations' Food and Agriculture Association

Nearly 75% of the grain grown and 50% of the water consumed in the U.S. are used by the meat industry. (Audubon Society)

Over 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to grow grain for livestock. (Greenpeace)

It takes nearly one gallon of fossil fuel and 5,200 gallons of water to produce just one pound of conventionally fed beef. (Mother Jones)

Farmed animals produce an estimated 1.4 billion tons of fecal waste each year in the U.S. Much of this untreated waste pollutes the land and water.

Factory farm pollution is the primary source of damage to coastal waters in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Scientists report that over sixty percent of the coastal waters in the United States are moderately to severely degraded from factory farm nutrient pollution. This pollution creates oxygen-depleted dead zones, which are huge areas of ocean devoid of aquatic life.

"The impact of countless hooves and mouths over the years has done more to alter the type of vegetation and land forms of the West than all the water projects, strip mines, power plants, freeways, and sub-division developments combined."

--Philip Fradkin, in Audubon, National Audubon Society, New York

Agricultural meat production generates air pollution. As manure decomposes, it releases over four hundred volatile organic compounds, many of which are extremely harmful to human health.

Nitrogen, a major by-product of animal wastes, changes to ammonia as it escapes into the air, and this is a major source of acid rain.

Worldwide, livestock produce over thirty million tons of ammonia. Hydrogen sulfide, another chemical released from animal waste, can cause irreversible neurological damage, even at low levels.

The World Conservation Union lists over 1,000 different fish species that are threatened or endangered. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate, over 60 percent of the world's fish species are either fully exploited or depleted. Commercial fish populations of cod, hake, haddock, and flounder have fallen by as much as 95 percent in the north Atlantic.

Livestock production affects a startling 70 to 85 percent of the land area of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union. That includes the public and private rangeland used for grazing, as well as the land used to produce the crops that feed the animals.

By comparison, urbanization only affects three percent of the United States land area, slightly larger for the European Union and the United Kingdom. Meat production consumes the world's land resources.

Thirty-three percent of our nation's raw materials and fossil fuels go into livestock destined for slaughter. In a vegan economy, only two percent of our resources will go to the production of food.

"It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the overpopulation of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat."

--Jeremy Rifkin, pro-life AND pro-animal author, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, and president of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

"Carl Pope could probably affect the world more by being a vegetarian than through his job as president of the Sierra Club," quipped Jennifer Horsman, co-author (with her daughter Jaime Flowers) of Please Don't Eat the Animals (2007).

According to the editors of World Watch, July/August 2004:

"The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future--deforestization, topsoil erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease."

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, similarly says in the February 1995 issue of Harmony: Voices for a Just Future (a peace and justice periodical on the religious left):

"...the survival of our planet depends on our sense of belonging--to all other humans, to dolphins caught in dragnets to pigs and chickens and calves raised in animal concentration camps, to redwoods and rainforests, to kelp beds in our oceans, and to the ozone layer."

The number of animals killed for food in the United States is nearly 75 times larger than the number of animals killed in laboratories, 30 times larger than the number killed by hunters and trappers, and 500 times larger than the number of animals killed in animal pounds.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is challenging those who think they can still be "meat-eating environmentalists" to go vegan, if they really care about the planet.

peta2 is now the largest youth movement of any social change organization in the world.

peta2 has 267,000 friends on MySpace and 91,000 Facebook fans.

A few years ago, PETA was the top-ranked charity when a poll asked teenagers what nonprofit group they would most want to work for. PETA won by more than a two to one margin over the second place finisher, The American Red Cross, with more votes than the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity combined.

“If anyone wants to save the planet,” says Paul McCartney in an interview with PETA's Animal Times magazine from 2001, “all they have to do is stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it.

"Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. Let’s do it! Linda was right. Going veggie is the single best idea for the new century.”

Les Brown of the Overseas Development Council calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only ten percent per year, it would free at least twelve million tons of grain for human consumption -- or enough to feed sixty million people.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:14PM

from the Kashyyykian home world to the planet earth.

you are henceforth ordered to stop insulting all of wookiekind. any more references to that piece of offal occupying your ovaloffice as a member of our proud and noble race will result in an invasion of your planet. it will be a declarartyion of war if you keep insulting our great people.

now if you want to call her a Gamorean, Hut or Jawa. please feel free to do so. but STOP INSULTING WOOKIES!

from the KKashyyykian embassy and signed by the great amd mighty Chewbacca

ps, we wookies have a great sense of smell, how could you compare us to that stench ridden trollop infesting the oval office?

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 9:47AM

The would be supreme dictats from the Homemaker in Chief, Angela Davis Jr, should make any chef who cares about his craft shake in his shoes. Bloobooger the Salt Nazi in New York has declared jihad on salt (the ill effects of which are hotly contestested) that can be used in not just fast food joints, but KITCHENS OVERALL. Can ANYONE who's seen Anthony Bourdain & knows his background just imagine if some city funtionary were standing over his shoulder when he was the executive chef at Les Halles, telling him, "Chef, you've added too much salt." Bourdain would be in jail & the funtionary would be in the ER from having a saute pan of hot butter being flung at his face.

Chefs are artists, to a fashion. You don't mess with their menus, unless you've been given permission to do so. After 8 years of working in fine dining kitchens & being a sous chef myself (and creating my own specials), I can tell you that people who don't know jack shit about cooking don't need to be dictating to me how I cook my food.

And yet, where is the outcry from my brethren from my former profession? No outcries from the guys you'd think would be the most vocal. Bourdain has snarked about it on his show once or twice. Batali, Bourdain's good friend? Silent. Eric Ripert of Le Bernardain in New York (one of the best chefs in the world, let alone the US)? Silent. Micheal Symon, Iron Chef, pork o phile? Silent.

And that brings me to First Lady Angela Davis Jr. herself. This 5 ax handle wide tuchus having harpy caws on & on about healthy eating, but I've read those White House menus. And they don't scream "healthy." And then there are the Obama's favorite places in Chicago & DC. I have the lists. I'll list them & provide links to the menus. I've eaten at a couple of the ones in DC & they ARE fantastic. However, when people are trying to tell you what's good for you & what isn't, I don't think that they should be eating in places like the following:

DC Restaurants:

Ben's Chili Bowl. This place is FREAKING AWESOME. The chili half smoke is one of the best things I've ever eaten.

Good Stuff Eatery. This place is run by a Top Chef finalist. His food is AWESOME & he's got another place in DC called We The Pizza. Good Stuff is Michelle's favorite place & home of the Obama burger. I've eaten at Good Stuff & the name is dead on. No, Michelle can keep her dry ass turkey burger. The Pres. doesn't seem to give a rat's arse what his ole lady says. His burger looks pretty good. For the record, the chef here was going to name a burger for McCain, had he been President. He DID make it during the campaign.

http://www.goodstuffeatery.com/menu

Oyamel. This place is high end Mexican. I've had food like this before in a few different places. I wasn't impressed with this place as much as I was with places like it in Cincy, Nashville & Philly. A shame, because the chef, Jose Andres, is a man of tremendous talent & pedigree.

http://www.oyamel.com/images/u.....u_main.pdf

The rest of the menus I cannot post because of Am Spec's 3 link policy. I HIGHLY suggest Googling these places, especially Spiaggia in Chicago. Not only does the food look DIVINE, but its also the antithesis of "healthy."

Blue Duck Tavern. I haven't been here yet, but I WILL go by the end of the year. The menu looks AWESOME. And again, NOT very healthy.

Obama's Favorite Chicago Restaurants. Unfortunately, I haven't eaten at any of these places. I'd LIKE to because I've heard about a few of them LONG before Obozo was nomiated or elected:

Spiaggia. Mmmm. Italian. Pasta. Gee, how "healthy." This place looks badass. I WILL GO HERE.

Topolbampo. This is another high end Mexican place. The chef/owner is Rick Bayless, who I've known about since before I even started cooking for a living. The man's a genius. His food looks beyond belief.

MacArthur's. Mmmm! Southern Soul Food. As a Memphis boy, this warms my heart. For someone browbeating everyone else about being healthy? Not so much. But hey, "do as I say, not as I do," right?

RJ Grunt's. Never heard of this place. But its a burger, fries & shake shack, with a salad bar. Do you REALLY think that Angela Davis Jr. eats a salad???

Sepia. This looks like a place I'd LOVE to work at, let alone eat at. Again. Check the menu. Tell me how "healthy" you think it is.

Valois Diner. Uh, the word "diner" doesn't scream healthy to me or any other normal person. These are just the Monday specials. Y'all tell ME how "healthy" this stuff sounds:

SPECIALS

Monday

T-Bone Steak.......................................... $13.95 Roast Beef............................................... $ 6.25
New York Steak...................................... $13.95 Roast Pork............................................... $ 6.25
Prime Rib................................................ $13.95 Baked Chicken........................................ $ 5.95
BBQ Ribs & Chicken Combo................ $ 9.95 BBQ Ribs................................................. $11.95
Chop Suey............................................... $ 6.25 Short Ribs................................................ $ 9.95
Stuffed Green Peppers.......................... $ 5.75 BBQ Chicken.......................................... $ 6.95
Florida Grouper....................................... $ 6.25 Hamburger Steak w/ Onions................. $ 6.25
Soup of the Day....................................... $ 1.60 Spring Salad.......................................... $ 1.90

So, Ms. Obama. When are you gonna stop eating at these places & lead by example? Don't worry, I won't hold my breath.

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
― Anthony Bourdain

Enorma Portuna| 2.7.12 @ 10:41AM

And Con Chef has the time to post long, insufferable drivel like the above.

He has no life except this blog. You can see his posts every day, all hours of the day.

He's to be pitied. And all that anger! He's one mean wart hog sitting in his wheelchair with an oxygen tube in his nose.

Eat it, Con Chef.

i.o. uringe| 2.7.12 @ 10:42AM

Yeah, eat it Con Chef. Stuff it in your filthy mouth.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:58AM

You two are just paragons of intellect & wit. I'll bet y'all went to an Ivy League school to perfect your idiocy, didn't you?

"Wise men speak when they have something to say; fools, because they must say something."...Plato

Thanks for illustrating the point every time you hit "submit" or "reply."

W| 2.7.12 @ 12:46PM

ConChef/Devil Dog
Who are these "people" here today? I bet it is one person posting under these stupid names. Maybe it is Obama if he is not playing golf today. I am starting the miss the usual suspects.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 1:30PM

These people are a joke. Take their pizza rolls & cheap ass lunch meat away from them, & I'll bet they'd be singing a different tune.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:03PM

iou,

filthy mouth? you kiss your daddy's filthy mouth after he comes home from his nambla meetings?

i bet he didnt even brush or gargle first.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:02PM

enormous portal,

i know NB. he is a good man and hard worker and provides for himself and his family.

all i eacer see from you is progressive whining all day long. how else would you know if he is here all day long if you arent yourself?

so in short, all you got is PROJECTION!

bwahahahahahahahahahaha

you use a wheelchainr and oxygen tube? such anger and despair is really funny.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 12:05PM

Projection is as played out as the race card. These people are weak.

Peppermint Tea| 2.7.12 @ 9:52AM

C'mon folk, give her the benefit of the doubt. She is really trim and fit, it is just that she obviously had AES--Ass Enhancement Surgery. She probably needed a boob job, a nose job, and and real job, but she did what hubby wanted and got an ass job. If BHO wanted a bony butted woman, he could have just stayed in Kenya.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:06AM

Yeah. Its all that healthy food she's NOT eating. The most dangerous place in the White House is between Angela Davis Jr. & a table full of ice cream.

loulou| 2.7.12 @ 11:44AM

And Frinch Fries. Moochelle loves French Fries. I just wish she'd speak non-ghetto English.

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 11:48AM

She loves her Kobe/Wagyu beef, too. As do I. However, I'm not telling people to eat healthy. Go to Lobels.com & take a look at the marbling of REAL Kobe beef. Then tell me if you think its "healthy." That stuff is so well marbled, its almost pink.

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.7.12 @ 10:16AM

I would suggest to Her Excellency, the Bow Legged Queen: "Physician, heal thyself".

Let she who is without a FAT ASS, cast the fist Salad with the Fat Free Dressing, and the Sea Salt.

Here's this Fat *ssed piece of Ghetto Trash, telling the rest of us what we can eat, and how we must all Share in the MISERY, of her Husband's Marxist Policies, while she shovels Stuffed Pork Chops, and Gravy Covered Cheese Fries, down her Fat, Stupid Mouth, as she lies on the Sun Drenched Beaches of a Tropical Paradise, ON OUR DIME.

Off with her Head!

(Figuratively, of course.)

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 10:25AM

Angle Davis Jr is a fraud. As is her husband. And you're right. Like you & I have both said, some chick with an ass 4 ax handles wide shouldn't tell us what's "healthy" or not.

r.t.| 2.7.12 @ 1:45PM

The way you talk, Timothy, you're the one who's "trash."

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 2:30PM

Aw, how CUTE. The old, "I know you are, but what am I" line. Y'all are just SO smart.

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 3:15PM

NO NO NO! We love Tim!

gearjammer| 2.7.12 @ 10:22AM

addicted to tv. she won't call that out. tv=democrat stronghold. cut tv to 2 days a week. cut obesity by 40 per cent. cut media " stars" pay 99 per cent.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 10:24AM

"Earlier in the interview, when the First Lady said that her mother and daughters had baked a red velvet cake for her birthday, Leno asked, "What is the calorie count?" To which Mrs. Obama replied rather defensively, "It's fine." Well, at 513 calories per serving, I'm sure it's quite fine. Whatever the caloric content, the red velvet cake was apparently special ordered rather than homemade.".....

------------

Now, call me old fashioned but in earlier times wasn't this called LYING???? Was she or wasn't she called out on this? Ok, dumb question.

TW in SC| 2.7.12 @ 10:38AM

Mr Leno has done everyone a service, if even by accident. He has a natural, playful, poke-fun-at-people way and he knows how imperfect people are. But, he gave us a glaring example of how angry this "first lady" is by asking an innocent question that everyone caught onto as being a "hey...I'm gonna poke at ya" moment.

People of good nature and with a sufficiently working intellect would've taken the jab and maybe offered one right back, like, "So...how's that Weight-Watchers working for you, Jay?" or.."Well, the box said it was only 20 calories....but I don't believe it" which, had she done that, would've caused me to smile and think of her as a human being instead of an angry, bitter, hateful she-thing. But she didn't gracefully deflect the question, she got defensive which is what people who have issues do.

Indeed the age of grace has mostly left us and she is the perfect sample of a bad example.

Pinatta virobrasa| 2.7.12 @ 10:37AM

The president and his wife are an attractive couple, but they happen to be black.

And oh how you AmSpec fanatics hate black people. It's sooooo obvious by reading your remarks.

Racists! You're miserable people in every sense of the word.

TW in SC| 2.7.12 @ 10:45AM

Please specify where it's spelled out "We hate black people".

Is it possible that we don't like people who are in such high position to lack poise and grace?

Or how about their incredible hypocrisy?

How about that we consider the Obamas to be huge frauds with no class.

How say you about George W Bush? I'm sure you are always respectful and say nice things about him and that you never even THINK of him in negative terms? To do so would be categorically racist, right?

You are still losing the battle here, Pinatta, kop-t-top, Arriana, outtaToona, juhgogo dong, ah shucks, tinky peetee.

Grow up.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 10:50AM

TW,

Toughen up. This played-out tactic will not work this time, although will be attempted umpteen times this year.

Cynthia | 2.7.12 @ 1:37PM

Timothy L. Terrell calls Michelle Obama "ghetto trash."

I think Terrell has spelled it out for you.

Billy the Bandaid| 2.7.12 @ 1:41PM

Cynthia, no need to waste your breath on these white trash losers.

They're old. They're bitter. And they're irellevant.

Irellevant, and they will soon be dead. "Good riddance to the racists," is what I say.

All right, Racists, time to rrrrrrrrrrrrev up your Nascar motors. You go 'head an' spin them wheels and kick up some gravel.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 1:55PM

Uh, I'm still waiting for an explanation of why you would consider "ghetto" racist. If anything, it's perhaps antisemitic but certainly not racist.

You have no right to change the meaning of words to fit your argument, EVEN IF you are a member of the Protected Class!

Proud 'n' in Yo Face| 2.7.12 @ 2:32PM

It's Black to the future! Although we're only 12% of poulation, you'll see more and more of us in leadership roles in politics, the arts, entertainment, you name it!

We're gonna be in yo white trashy faces, so get used to it, losers.

Obama! He the man for the next four years!

Forever Black! Black to the Future and beyond!

Pinatta| 2.7.12 @ 2:33PM

AND ITS ABOUT TIME!

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 3:00PM

Um. Well. Let's see. Based on your prediction and the track record (South Africa and Zimbabwe), I suppose there's much to look forward to.

Those countries are doing so well that ex farmers and ex factory owners are urged to repatriate to save those once-productive businesses.

Understandably, many are saying thanks but no thanks.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:49PM

bwahahahahahahahahahaha

leadership roles? with a FEW exceptions like Allen West and Thomas Sowell, the only leadership you have is odinga, baby doc, idi amin, •Mbasago,•Robert Mugabe, etc....

arts and entertainment? guess crayons is art and gangbanging is entertainment.

in my face? anytime, anywhere BOY.

black to the future? future of third world hellholes that are tyranies and wastelands.

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.7.12 @ 5:07PM

It's Black to the future.

Although you're only 12% of the Population, you commit 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES.

Congratulations.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 10:47AM

Mr./Mrs. Vibrator,

Can I trouble you for concrete examples?

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:20PM

vibrating pinata,

bwahahahahahahahahaha

we are white and hate blacks? care to make a little wager on that? you know, put up or shut up!

how about an even 100G's?

take your WEAK and OVER USED racecard and shove it along with yourself up the first lardasses rear

Sheila| 2.7.12 @ 1:30PM

Absolutely. I'm a racist/hater/antisemite/homophobe/nazi. If I've left anything out, feel free to add it to the list. And all of this bothers me . . . not a tall. You're still Pinatta virobrasa (aka LaQueesha) and I'm still White.

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 3:17PM

YAAWWWNNNNNNN............

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 7:03AM

the first lady IS black, but she happens to be homely as HE&&...but, if her skin suddenly became "osmond family white"...well, she'd STILL be homely as HE&&

Trauta Veener-Ritzel| 2.7.12 @ 10:52AM

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Kingofthenet| 2.7.12 @ 10:59AM

Only in Conservative La-La land, would a Non-elected, person who TRIES to get Americans to at least THINK about what they eat is bad.Jack la Lalanne or even the Juiceman would do the same thing.With the epidemic of Diabetes, and even Children getting the Adult diet related type, I applaud her.As far as what she PERSONALLY eats, I am sure she could kick your wives flabby butts from here to eternity.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 11:08AM

I don't think collaborating with her husbands' plan to take over 1/5th of the economy constitutes attempting to '...get Americans to at least THINK about what they eat...".

Lame!

Truth to Power| 2.7.12 @ 11:31AM

Stop trying to push your morality on others using government money. The lefties are always trying to tell others how to live when their own lives are disasters. A whole generation followed the governement subsidized food pyramid and the results have been horrific. The poor have suffered the most from this stupidity.

http://thechive.com/2009/12/30.....ma-ugly-3/

Sometimes the rich suffered as well.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:23PM

kingofthenet,

only if she had the secret service hold my wife down.

and i accept your challenge! $1,000,000.00!

what say you? you gonna go get the first lardass and tell her to get her lardass kicked?

put up or shut up pissant!

Franco| 2.7.12 @ 11:11AM

80% of weight loss is attributable to diet, not exercise. Exercise will keep it off but nothing short of a 20-30 mile forced march is likely to take it off in the first place.

Just sayin'.

Kingofthenet| 2.7.12 @ 11:15AM

Calories are energy, how many you take in and how many you burn are the two important ideas.It's pretty basic, although if you exersize in the Morning, eat a little before you do to get your system in fat burning mode from the sleeping 'Starvation' mode.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 11:40AM

King,

Thank you for proving the point all freedom-loving people have tried to make.

It's a simple proposition requiring only a paragraph of instruction. Like yours!

We don't need constant nagging from FLOTUS!

Nor do we need a takeover of the health care industry by POTUS!

Thank you.

You truly ARE King o' da net!

Sigmund| 2.7.12 @ 12:36PM

It's the exersize, stupid!

Franco| 2.7.12 @ 11:20AM

I rather like Tofurkey. I stopped eatiing it after noticing the sodium content, but when you fry 'em up in a pan they have the chewy consistientcy of beef jerky combined with a cigar.

Red velvet cake is just gay, gay, gay.

Nina| 2.7.12 @ 11:29AM

I find it interesting that there is a billboard down the street from me stating that 1 in 6 Americans are hungry...(yet we have an obesity "epidemic"). That means that 1 in 6 of my friends are hungry all the time, don't eat, etc? I know a lot of people, my husband knows even more, and I can bet you NONE of them are hungry! They work, they pay their bills and they put food on the table. If they don't work, the government puts food on their table...
Here's another one...got a 15 mo grandson, a little lean, not a big chubby kid. He's not different than his siblings were at that age or his mother and uncle, yet the doctor says he's just borderline low normal for his weight...wants them to supplement his whole milk with Carnation Instant Breakfast meals...fatten him up. So you have a doctor saying this kid isn't fat enough, and this cake eating food nazi saying we as a whole are too fat!

So what is it? We eat too much of "the wrong foods" (according to her highness) or there are starving people living next door to me...

Michelle, really...help me I'm just so confused. I know you can clear this up for me.....

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 11:45AM

Nina Wrote Above:

"I find it interesting that there is a billboard down the street from me stating that 1 in 6 Americans are hungry...(yet we have an obesity "epidemic")."

Have you ever SEEN the big fat fatties checking out at the grocery store with their food stamps? Its the EPITOME of irony.

ed goldman| 2.7.12 @ 11:45AM

what's MO's training in diet and nutrition? Did she become some kind of expert when her husband was elected?

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 11:59AM

Uh, you're not supposed to ask such questions. We're all supposed to just get on the nutrition bus and not ask so many questions.

After all, if your not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:27PM

question for the food nazis.

since I PAY for what I eat, and since I PAY with money I EARNED, and since it has ZERO effect on ya'll,

WHY do you care what i eat? please explain WHAT BUSINESS it is of YOURS what i CHOOSE to eat?

maybe you should go ask hitler what he ate?

unlike the first lardass, I PAY for my own meals.

Skippy| 2.7.12 @ 6:55PM

Hitler was a strict vegetarian.
'Nuff said!

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 7:05AM

here's the thing with ProgLibs; they are inherently miserable people, and they have an insatiable need to make everyone else as miserable as they themselves are, in order to not feel so out of place

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 12:31PM

this is like how the gubmint tells you you need to be prepared for an emergency. what you have to have.

and then they go around like in Tenn and want to inspect your homes to make sure you have all the neccessary supplies.

then they tell you you are HOARDING and want to put you in re-indoctrination camps.

but they never tell you that THEY dont need to prepare because they are the gubmint and have millions of others to take care of them.

but THEY have only your best interest at heart and so need to control YOU or you might hurt yourself and that isnt allowed

Peppermint Tea| 2.7.12 @ 12:35PM

Why are we begrudging her her just desserts?
She obviously had a $50,000 ass job, should she wear a $50,000 blue dress to show it off?
Quit hammering on Michelle!
(Damn racists.)

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 7:06AM

i could care less what she eats or what she wears or what she does; i just wish she and her ilk would extend the same courtesy to others

Merry Crystal| 2.7.12 @ 12:47PM

What was it Joseph Campbell used to say---“Follow your bliss”.

This piece of advice should truly be understood as a way to explain how people actually DO choose to live their lives. Yes, don’t we all “follow our bliss”, as we see it?

Since we are conscious, and driven to max out our own born lives in what TURNS US ON---that is, we’re self interested--- we strive to DO IT, on the road, constantly. These dumbed down last days of America-the-fat, the most massive majority is best characterized as—

NEVER NOT EATING.

Think about it. On waking up, the major pull to escape the bliss of a warm bed, is the idea of breakfast. Next, there’s the fixing of this food, then the orgasm of actually spending time sticking it in the mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. After reaching fullness, OR BEYOND, a (usually unacknowledged) sadness enters one’s consciousness, as more thoughts about how long one has to wait, until enough eaten stuff is digested, so one can DO it again---for lunch, or even a snack or more before lunch. And, so it goes, until dinner, and before bed!

Yes, 24/7---it’s ALL ABOUT EATING!

Wrapping your mouth around some gross stuff, that tastes good, as often as possible---expressions of sucking at mommy’s tit! Wah—I want my mommy! Oh, how many people, these spoiled-baby days, were never weaned, and faced with existential requirements, to wit, the need to work for even barely enough sustenance to survive!

Well, here’s the shit kicker---the over-eaters of America, and the “developed” world, who swallow the conventional processed “foods” sold in supermarkets, are really starving. By ignorantly ingesting combinations of physical elements that have been mostly denatured, they are denying the body essential life sustaining ingredients, so the body relays the message---EAT MORE, I’M NOT GETTING FED!

You know, putting lots of watered down gasoline in your car, putting lots of processed foods in the body: what do you think is going to happen?

For those of us who have changed our dietary act, over time, those who eat to live, not live to eat, being in public among the plethora of fat fools is so painful!

Why, maybe Michelle Obama is simply the “first responder” to the obesity emergency. And, in the future, when being fat is like smoking is now, there will be a social awakening, and removing fat PIGS from public view will become demanded by the awakened elites. It is so pathetic to have to even SEE such suicidal fools, even as they are clothed in yards and yards of cloth!

Fat people should know that they are an ABOMINATION, who shouldn’t be seen! Shall I get gross, for the grossest of you?
Who enjoys being surrounded by the smell of excrement? Ah, the total LACK OF BLISS the nose suffers!

Well, the TOTAL LACK OF BLISS for the eyes, when they must view a stupid obese human, is as extreme!

Fat people are essentially walking---or in wheel chairs---out houses. Literally, FULL OF SHIT.

Pete| 2.7.12 @ 12:54PM

Yet this same author supports Romney and RomneyCare. It is the same "I know what is best for you." big government socialism pushed on us by the nanny state.

MTB| 2.7.12 @ 2:16PM

Mike Huckabee inspired me more to eat right and lose weight than Mrs. Obama ever has or will. She and her loser husband are arrogance personified.

fckewe| 2.7.12 @ 3:01PM

This is gratuitous filth. This Goldstein guy might actually get an exemption from the KKK to carry a real card, not just the guest variety. But I guess after a lifetime of choking down Gefithe fish, creamed pickled herring, and haggis (guts cooked in a stomach) Sabbath after Sabbath after Sabbath, American food like zucchini pizza and apples (you know, in the AMERICAN pie) woudld be VERY displeasing to his ancestral taste buds.

This amoebic, hermaphroditic self pollenating rodent should AT LEAST have a hardon about the RED Velvet Cake, considering the dedication to his RED menace corruption is so complete. His very suspect genetic origin aside, this landfill reject garbage completely discredits Goldie journalistic claims.

Bob Grant| 2.7.12 @ 3:11PM

How 'bout we attack hateful "racism" with hateful anti-semitism.

Teaghan| 2.7.12 @ 3:22PM

Wow dude, you sure do know some BIG words!

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:28AM

DOing homework afflicts one with the disorder of workable intelligence. you one of those 'common sense, don't need no books (cause My DADDY raped me to stoopid to read) kind of guys?

Con Chef (NB) | 2.7.12 @ 3:56PM

Haggis is a Scottish dish, not a Jewish one, Sheep Banger.

Drunken Sailor| 2.7.12 @ 4:52PM

Come on NB, do you really think he was going to eat sheep? He likes his mutton but not in the same way we do, so how would you expect him to know where that dish comes from?

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:58PM

Drunken Sailor,

he eats the sheep after he adds that special sauc to them, he disobeyed the ayatollah edicts that after he has sex with them, he is to sell them to his neighbors.

In 1272, the Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.

In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the intestine out
of the goat first !

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:28AM

Tell that to Goldstein;s mom.

DevilDog| 2.7.12 @ 4:54PM

everypost of, "mymommyisFREE" has a sexual refrence to the male genitalia.

talk about OBSESSED! penis envy is such a drag i guess.

i bet he is an expert polesmoking, rumpranging, fudgepacking tubesteak conissuer.

and hermaphroditic? guess it wishes it was. but we know it was born without and tries to make up by swallowing every one in sight.

JimH| 2.7.12 @ 3:14PM

This harping on what hoi polloi eat is just the modern incarnation of sumptuary laws.

Drunken Sailor| 2.7.12 @ 3:53PM

I love it. Here we have all the trolls posting how the 1st ladies food nazi policies are so great and how we are all racist idiots for wanting to make our own decisions. Then we have them talking about black power. Nothing wrong with that perhaps but maybe it is the black community that should be listening closer to Mrs. Obama considering that population has the highest obesity rates.

http://www.statehealthfacts.or.....d=91&cat=2

Agent VX| 2.7.12 @ 6:18PM

Doesn't she eat a lot of lobster, steak, ice cream, burgers, and other stuff we're not supposed to, according to her? Oh, maybe she and her dictator wannabe husband have decided that taking all the money from the rabble will prevent them from eating anything other than gruel, thereby curing the "obesity" problem.

Pimarily Exhausted| 2.7.12 @ 8:21PM

If you ignore everything she says, do you really hear it and should you care in the first place?

Fred Farkel| 2.7.12 @ 9:39PM

Barack, does this dress make my butt look big??

Yes dear, that's because your butt is big??

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 7:08AM

"no, dear, it's those 17 pieces of red velvet cake that did that..." LOL

POST American| 2.8.12 @ 2:54AM

---------------------BOTTOM LINE---------------------

And again, NOTICE, as the campaign
approaches ---the REAL issues disappear.

And this year, with the Constitution being
overturned by NDAA 1021 ---you too may
-----------------'DISAPPEAR'-----------------.

-------------THE REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN-----------

------------------HUAC/Nuremberg is coming. . .

hehehe| 2.8.12 @ 3:30AM

What amazes Me most is that from theTitle all the way down to the last comment, there is only ONE decent person in crew and she's the one ya'll can't stop fantazizing about.

spike59| 2.8.12 @ 7:09AM

you really need to learn the difference between 'fantasy' and 'nightmare'

Con Chef (NB) | 2.8.12 @ 9:06AM

Project much, State Fellator? We're not the one's worshipping the "president" & his wife, Angela Davis Jr.

Your devestating displays of mental acumen in response to my posts is surely another perfect example of why liberalism is perpetual childhood.

Richard Baker| 2.8.12 @ 11:41AM

This woman reminds me of another Communist scold. Elena Ceaușescu, wife of Romania's dictator, acted in a similar manner because she thought that as the dictator's wife she knew best. Amazing how these socialist/communist wives all act alike.

Juan Jose Morales-Castillo | 2.8.12 @ 5:20PM

Since when is obesity a health concern on the same level as AIDS, breast cancer and malnutrition?
This Mic-robe b---h is just like her husband: she has nothing useful to do with her time, so she spends it abusing the patience of others.

N. W. "Dub" Holston| 2.9.12 @ 3:34PM

Do you really believe obesity is not a serious health concern? It's a major contributing factor to a host of diseases that kill us prematurely (and cost us a fortune in unnecessary medical costs). As for the First Lady, any friend of broccoli is a friend of mine.

Bill Stanley | 2.9.12 @ 12:53PM

What happens when a herd of school-lunch crusaders runs roughshod over the taste buds of 700,000 grade-school students? In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the result was thousands of lunches thrown away by dissatisfied students at a huge loss to taxpayers. Last fall, the district unveiled a new menu ... the substitution of vegan food for hamburgers and pizza. The authoritarian nanny-state planners didn’t count on the constituency that matters ... the student consumer. There was a 13% drop in school-lunch purchases. The shortfall wreaked havoc on the budget and thousands of unopened food items were tossed into trash bins every day. Over the winter break, the district announced it would bring back favorites like pizza and hamburgers, albeit with whole grain bread and reduced-fat sauces. You can lead students to vegan food, but you cannot make them eat it. www.newsandopinions.net

N. W. "Dub" Holston| 2.9.12 @ 1:06PM

I find myself wondering if the comment-writers disgusted by Mrs. Obama's appeals on behalf of healthier eating were equally annoyed by by previous First Ladies pet issues. Would they have told Lady Bird Johnson to take the litter she hated and shove it? Did they tell Laura Bush to keep her literary suggestions to herself and let them watch Jerry Springer in peace? Lordy, you folks are hateful. And to the author of this column, what the heck did eggplant ever do to you?

StanO| 2.9.12 @ 1:34PM

I despise the Obama's for their America hating politics and policies. But, that doesn't mean that needs to translate to hating on Michelle for picking up a cause. When BHO starts talking about it . . . yes. But Michelle, who cares? All First Ladies do this kind of thing. She's promoting healthy living, so what? Listen or don't, Michelle's blather doesn't bother me, it's Barak's that does.

N. W. "Dub" Holston| 2.10.12 @ 11:14AM

Sorry, but I don't quite follow your logic. If the Obamas hate America, wouldn't they be encouraging us to pig out more more often at KFC and Taco Bell, not eat more broccoli?

JMJ| 2.9.12 @ 2:36PM

To call her a "lady" is disgusting and to call her an American is pure poison. I can't believe that anybody would waste time watching Leno or T.V. for that matter, such a huge waste of sewage. +JMJ+

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