Aloha from Hawaii!
I’ve just returned from a heaven of pineapples and papaya, teaching on Maui and Oahu. Thank you so much to my friends there, the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii, and Down to Earth Markets, for hosting my lectures. Many thanks to GSG reader and my friend Debbie Tuttle (shown below with her husband Tom, and my [...]
6 Comments • Continue Reading →Libby Goes Vegan
You know I don’t promote any “isms”–vegetarianism, veganism, raw foodism. I’m secretly a fan of all those movements. But I don’t adopt them as extremist positions because I think they send most people running for the hills. And I believe that sticking to the idea of eating MORE PLANT FOODS wins more converts. But [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →Young Vegetarians, share this with your kids, part 2 of 2
I like this YouTube video about another vegetarian athlete, Jake Shields, whose parents never served animals but didn’t talk about why. Now Jake converts other athletes, who are amazed at how endurance increases when they eat only plants: Have your children look at all these world-class, famous athletes, including rocked-up bodybuilders, who don’t eat other [...]
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My favorite things in Africa, part 3
My friend Shari and I have traveled in 12 countries, in 3 continents, the past 4 years, together, plus many other countries separately. We seem to be amazingly lucky. We’ve been in, or missed by a day, five devastating natural disasters: a huge fire (South Africa), a landslide (Hong Kong), a 6.5 earthquake (Costa Rica), [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation? . . . LAST ONE! part 13
You know that my primary motive on GSG.com is to improve the health of human beings through a plant-based diet. But today we look at figures regarding the treatment of animals raised for food in America before I officially retire this series: Number of pigs in U.S. raised in total confinement factories where [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →One good thing
Hey Robyn, I just want to thank you for not focusing on what OTHER raw foods blogs tend to focus on. They tend to bring me down with all this talk about being kind to animals. Of COURSE we should be kind to animals…however…there’s this dark heavy vibe that a lot of people [...]
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