Alcia Silverstone (was Monarchy, Hero etc).

[Guest guest]

Hey Sue,

 

I once heard a radio interview with Alicia on Radio 1 (Simon Mayo),

when he did his " God of the Week " feature. It was last year sometime.

I had no idea she was into animal rights, but when asked who she

would like to meet, she said Einstein, because he was intelligent and

veggie, when asked who she would make a saint she said Martin Luther

King, Ghandi and Linda McCartney. Who would she thunderbolt? The

person who first decided to profit from suffering of animals. And her

miracle? My memory is a bit vague here, but it was something like make

everyone have the compassion to stop eating meat. Simon Mayo finished

the interview and then made several remarks as if she was mad. After

the news break he read out messages from several callers, one that

stood out in my mind was from someone who said that " the starving in

Ethiopia would be happy with any food including a big juicy steak " . It

made me angry what they were saying about her, especialy since she was

not around to explain (I think she'd done the interview by phone).

Obviously the connection between the first world's excesses and the

third world's poverty is not being stressed enough. Oh, and to top it

all off the news item included a report that 2 horses had died in the

Grand National (which means it must have been last april).

 

She's quite cute too , but then compassionate people seem to exude

an aura of warmth.

 

---

Rob

 

 

vegan-network, suzy.grayson@n... wrote:

> Rob,

>

> In total agreement with your views. I always say to my college

friends

> that if I had a lot of money I'd give it to worthwhile causes and

use

> if for the good of others. But, they don't understand and one friend

> can't see what's wrong with capitalism so we're always arguing!!

>

> It is awful how we hero-worship people that don't deserve it.

> However, I always respect celebs a lot more if they're veg*n or

> support enviro/human rights causes etc. One celeb that I really

> respect is Alicia Silverstone as she's vegan and is always speaking

up

> for the cause. I don't think some celebs release how much power and

> influence they have, you never know Alicia might have gotten some

> people to make the change.

>

> Sue