responses to the Chronicle on Vegetarian food

[Guest guest]

Carl Lewis wrote an introduction to the book Very Vegetarian by Joannequin

Bennett in which he says he's been vegan since July of 1990.

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-1752431-5972967

 

Jack

 

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<jacknorris

Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:37 AM

Re: [sFBAVeg] responses to the Chronicle on Vegetarian food

 

 

> I also heard Carl Lewis (not Edwin Moses) goes veggie

> only during training. but i think it's false since

> Carl Lewis wrote a book and PROBABLY talked about his

> veggie training,,,

>

> I don't have time to do research but thanks for all

> your feed back! keep posting great facts on the list.

> This list is really great

>

> --- jacknorris wrote:

> > >Hank Aaron

> > > ran the bases

> > > rather well after his record

> > home-run

> > > hits also.

> >

> > When I was working for FARM, I talked to Hank

> > Aaron's personal secretary

> > about whether he'd endorse the Great American

> > Meatout and she told me that

> > he wasn't a vegetarian. She said that they had heard

> > rumors that he was, but

> > he wasn't.

> >

> > The International Vegetarian Union has done a great

> > job of putting together

> > a list of famous vegetarians and famous supposed

> > vegetarians at:

> >

> > http://www.ivu.org/people/

> >

> > Of particular interest is Einstein:

> > http://www.ivu.org/history/northam20a/einstein.html

> > who was apparently

> > vegetarian for the last year of his life.

> >

> > Jack

> >

> >

> > >

> > > Eat green and be healthy!

> > >

> > > VEGETARIANS HAVE

> > > CONTRIBUTED GREATLY

> > >

> > > Editor -- I am writing this

> > letter in

> > > response to

> > > Martin Peter McGurrin's letter to

> > the

> > > editor on June

> > > 22. As a vegetarian, I found his

> > > letter a bit offensive

> > > and inflammatory. First of all, I

> > > would like to have

> > > scientific proof of his claim

> > that

> > > vegetarians live

> > > shorter lives than meat-eating

> > > people.

> > >

> > > Secondly, in response to his

> > question

> > > of vegetarian

> > > athletes and Nobel Laureates I

> > have

> > > the following

> > > list: Albert Einstein, Charles

> > > Darwin, Thomas

> > > Edison, Sir Isaac Newton, Clara

> > > Baron, St.

> > > Frances of Assisi, Susan B.

> > Anthony

> > > and

> > > Mohandas Gandhi. And yes --

> > Einstein

> > > won a

> > > Nobel Prize.

> > >

> > > Also, in the Olympic ring, I am

> > sure

> > > that most have

> > > heard of Edwin Moses, Kathy

> > Johnson

> > > and Carl

> > > Lewis -- all of whom are

> > vegetarians.

> > > If you are not

> > > a vegetarian, that is your

> > personal

> > > choice. But

> > > please, do not attack vegetarians

> > and

> > > intimate that

> > > vegetarians have not contributed

> > > greatly to the

> > > world.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/25

> > /ED126927.DTL

> > >

> > >

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> > >

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