Everyone's doing it...
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A short public service announcement created for the University of Rochester's cable TV station.
Can a world-class athlete get enough protein from a vegetarian diet to compete? I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look, (I know that sounds vain, but all of us want to like the way we look) I enjoy eating more, and I feel great. — Olympian Carl Lewis, in his introduction to Very Vegetarian
Lots of thoughtful, compassionate people have recognized the importance of a vegetarian diet. Did you know that nine-time Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis made the switch? How about Alicia Silverstone? Susan B. Anthony went vegetarian too, as did Albert Einstein. Heck, even Anthony Hopkins (a.k.a. Hannibal Lecter) went vegetarian... ;-)
How about you? For your health, the earth, and the animals: try vegetarian!
In order of appearance: Rebekka Puderbaugh, Adam Hayes, Abigail Aresty, Erin Subramanian, Hoss Firooznia, Abigail Wickes, Megan Walter.
In the video a number of other famous vegetarians and vegans are
mentioned. To learn more about them (and others) see the book
Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes
and the famous vegetarians
lists at the
IVU,
SoyStache and
Living Vegetarian.
The video was composed entirely of still images created with the GIMP and animated with Apple's iMovie. The voice tracks were layered and balanced with Audacity and the background music was composed with GarageBand.
© 2004 Hoss Firooznia; some rights reserved.
Free for use and redistribution under a
Creative Commons License. (Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0)