The Green Quote: Christie Brinkley Credits VEG Lifestyle With Hot Looks
Filed under: campaigns, interviews, magazines — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 12:23 pm
January 23rd 2009
“Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.”
- Christie Brinkley revealing to People magazine the secret to her good looks. While Christie has been VEG for a super long time, she recently took part in one of those yucky Got Milk campaigns. Thoughts? Comments? Quips?
[Editor note: I went VEG 8 years ago TODAY and feel frigin fantastic! Happy Anniversary, me!]
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he doesnt have to become a hard core 24-7 vegan, just a small effort...
What a hypocrite…
Sooo much suffering goes into the production of milk and other dairy products. Christy apparently has no clue that:
1) Veal is a direct byproduct of Milk.
To produce milk, a cow must be pregnant. In nature the baby would drink the milk. Farmers remove the baby from the mother within hours of birth. A female calf is doomed to the same fate as her mother and a male calf becomes VEAL.
2) Old dairy cows become HAMBURGER!
Cows normally live to be 20+ years old in nature. Because of the toll that producing hundreds of gallons of milk per day takes on their bodies (not to mention the injection of hormones and the stress of living in factory farm conditions) cows are considered ’spent’ by the dairy industry within a few years.
‘Spent’ dairy cows are repayed for their ’service’ by being trucked off to slaughter to make hamburger and other low quality meat products.
Way to go Christy…wear that mustache to show your pride in animal cruelty…
I don’t think she means any harm. I doubt she knows about the cruelty behind milk production. Many people really don’t know how bad it is. Someone should gently educate her.
alright, i can understand and will respect any veggie that drinks milk in their own home, nobody is perfect, but PROMOTING it ???? and that from a person who supports PETA and spoke out against the cruelties of Circuses ? frankly , looking at that face its sickening.
Hey Editor !! ‘grats and huggies for you ! great !
She didn’t seem to go veg for humane reasons…more for health reasons or to stay model thin for her career. She plugged her Total Gym but not a love for animals. And she’s not vegan…just vegetarian…or she probably wouldn’t have done those milk ads. I’d say she’s a bit shallow…but at least she’s not a carnivore. LOL!
Ok, if she’s veg then why support the milk industry.
Sure would be nice if these actresses/actors/etc stood up for what they believe and not be sell outs. Or, educate themselves on what’s really going on behind the scenes.
It’s ads like this and her lame comments that have others thinking that dairy is part of being vegan…sadly a NUTRITIONIST told me that being vegan I should consider DAIRY for my protein intake!! ummmm yea hello! vegan=no animal products, no animal byproducts to eat, consume, wear or use! geeeez no wonder even nutritionists don’t get it!
Congrats to you Editor though on your 8 yrs
and blah to Brinkley!
Yeah, if you’re vegan you’re not doing milk. Not sure why you’d be out promoting it. Oh yeah, for the $$. Guess PETA doesn’t pay enough.
There is so much misinformation out there, perpetuated by the dairy industry, that even the “experts” often don’t know what they are talking about.
Put a smiling celebrity with a stupid milk mustache and everyone thinks its the greatest thing on earth.
A doctor or nutritionist telling you to drink milk or eat meat is like them telling you to smoke more. I look forward to the day when people are better educated on this.
Eric, doctors get almost no nutritional training whatsoever, so one of them falling for the protein myth isn’t as unforgiveable as a nutritionist doing so. But I read a book in which Suzanne Havala Hobbs, vegan nutrition expert, said that the dairy industry provided a lot of materials to the students.
congrats, Parrish, on your eight years. Earlier this month, I celebrated my seventh veg-annniversary; I went vegan a few months after that.
VT is so right.
How ironic is it that today’s medical doctors (in Western medicine anyway) are not trained properly in nutrition.
I have so many friends who have gotten ill (some terminal) and the doc makes NO suggestions on nutrition/lifestyle changes. They just give them more drugs and surgeries. It’s BS!
Parrish cograts and good work. Maybe in 100 years doctors will see how miserably they failed and the AMA and the FDA won’t be basically run by the selfish drug companies and they’ll apologize for the millions they harmed and killed.
Erin
To add to Erin’s point… I recently did an online “health analysis” that is offered through my employer. I received high scores in everything except for nutrition… I was dinged for not eating 3 or more servings of dairy a day! Even though that is just an online tool, it’s just another sign that our medicial community needs to wake up!
I’ve only had one doctor in my life who really seemed to consider the “whole” me. He was also very open about considering my input, even listening to ideas I had picked up off of the internet, researching them with his colleagues and working with me to support my health. He always asked me how my support network was doing (knowing I was a single mom living away from the rest of her family), if I was working out, how I was eating, etc.
I’m still on the search for another “Dr. Right” since I moved from that part of the country
ckwebgrrl, flagging someone for not eating enough dairy products is perfectly valid. Sure, there might be people who are able to have a healthy diet that includes no animal based products, but in a vast majority of cases not eating enough dairy products is sign of an unhealthy diet.
i would rather say eating dairy products is a sign of an unhealthy diet, unless you are a toddler.
I just started reading the China Study, and for anyone that still has doubts about whether or not dairy is bad for you, I highly recommend you read it. It’s entirely factual, based of years and years (and years, seriously, like 27 of them) of information gathering. And it’s not just one dr. it’s many, most from very prestigious backgrounds. no kooks here. if you won’t believe all us crazy vegans, give some dr.’s a chance.
Dairy isn’t what the body needs…calcium is…and you can get that without dairy products…But where does it say that Christie is VEGAN?…She says vegetarian in the above post…Maybe she’s lacto-veg or lacto-ovo-veg but NOT vegan? Did I misread her comments?
becca, I don’t doubt you can have a healthy vegan diet. I also don’t doubt you can have a healthy diet that includes meat and other animal based products (there’s a whole body of published research on that as well). Sure there probably are tons of correlations between animal based diets and medical conditions, but just as surely there are tons of correlations between vegan diets and medical conditions.
Personally, I tried two weeks of full vegan diet and two weeks of vegetarian diet. Before that I did research to build as well balanced diets as possible. During the month I spent way more money and effort in preparing my meals than I normally do. However, the result was that I felt weak, my body started burning muscle mass, couldn’t keep up with my normal exercise routine and felt tired and generally bad. Getting enough protein was the biggest problem. Another big problem would be to maintain the diet all year round as I live in a climate where we get fresh, locally produced vegetables for maybe 3-4 months per year. My conclusion was that you probably could have a healthy vegetarian diet (I doubt a vegan one would be realistic at least in my case), but without a strong ethical or religious conviction I don’t see any reason to go through with it.
a) Whenever I see someone with the milk mustache, I think they are either greedy or desperate for money.
b) Milk does NOT do a body good. It’s dangerous: there’s a strong milk-cancer link as well as a milk-diabetes link.
c) I’m glad she’s vegetarian and outspoke about it.
d) I consumed dairy for a long time as a vegetarian before I went vegan. I understand dairy consumption, but I don’t think anyone should promote it.
e) Diary is incredibly cruel.
Ugh, sorry about my typos.
outspoke => outspoken
diary => dairy
Also, fbr, you just need a vegan coach. Then you could learn to do it well. But yeah, a strong ethical conviction helps. Sorry you don’t have that.
if you stop smoking cigaretes, its not like the next day, or the nex week you feel great and healthy, rather your body feels miserable and really miss the nicotin. its the same with changing your diet and stop eating all animal products.
Elaine, if you’re going to make such bold claims about the dangerousness of dairy products you might want to back that up with references. The significant known health risks with dairy products are due to dairy allergies, while at the same time they’re a source of many important nutrients. Also I don’t see what a “vegan coach” could’ve done for me, there is a huge body of literature on vegan diets and I’m far more inclined to do my research by reading rather than hiring some self proclaimed prophet to help me.
herwin, unlike animal based products in a diet, cigarettes are addictive and have withdrawal symptoms. Your comparison makes no sense.
quote from fbr : “the result was that I felt weak, my body started burning muscle mass, couldn’t keep up with my normal exercise routine and felt tired and generally bad”
thats all because you change your diet and your body that is used to dairy (and meat ?) needs more than two weeks to adjust to it.
as a person that stopped smoking, and stopped eating meat, milk, etc, i damn well know what i an saying and what i did feel, and that the effects on your body are nothing less than unpleasant withdrawal changes, weather it is stopping eating animal products that your body and mind are used to, or stopping smoking cigarets.
i am sorry, but to have an unsuccesfull vegan fling for a two weeks, says more about your (lack of)commitment, then the nutritional value of milk.
herwin, the reaction of a body to quitting smoking and quitting eating animal based products is completely different. Nicotine has substantial withdrawal effects, which substance in dairy do you claim has them also?
It wasn’t an unsuccessful fling, and it was for four weeks (2 vegan, 2 vegetarian). Lack of commitment is precisely the reason why I wouldn’t go through with it permanently. To commit there would have to be a good reason, and the only ones that I could come up with were either ethical or religious ones (including a belief that it will make you more healthy, regardless of what research says).
fbr, unless you’re a baby calf, you don’t need cows’ milk.
There is, I have read, a milk osteoporosis link. Yep, counter to the dairy industdry’s claims, consuming milk makes it more likely that you’ll develop osteoporosis because excess animal protein strips calcium from your bones. In many parts of Asia, where dairy consumption is near nil, osteoporosis is practically unheard of.
VeggieTart, indeed there seem to be many sources claiming a dairy osteoporosis link. Curiously, the vast majority of these are non-scientific sources, mostly websites with obvious vegan/vegetarian agendas.
If you look at the scientific research it points at the precisely opposite conclusions. For example in a journal article Robert P. Heaney writes about the dairy-osteoporosis argument: “the argument is curious on its face. Had it any cogency, milk could never support growth, nor could it sustain health in adults, yet it manifestly does both, as for example, in infants and children of all races and in adults of nomadic, pastoralist peoples.”
He further writes: “while it is possible to arrange an adequate diet using available Western foods, it is usually difficult to do so without including dairy products.”
Just because osteoporosis is rare in Asia where dairy consumption is less than in the West, it does not mean there is any causal link between the two. It’s far more likely to be genetic, for example.
fbr, when a person radically changes the daily diet, the body needs time to adapt, this takes times and until the body is used to the new diet, it will feel similar like withdrawal symptons and strong cravings for the foods that you stopped consuming, just EXACTLY how you described your own bodily reaction when you turned vegan.
to say that you dont have withdrawel symptons when you change your diet is naive.
also this previous quote seems not to be based on any research or experiences from people who turned (and sticked) to a veggie diet.
“but just as surely there are tons of correlations between vegan diets and medical conditions.”
herwin, sure the body takes time to adjust to radical changes in diets. That is not the same as withdrawal from nicotine, for example. And that adjustment will not last anything like the month of my own experiment. If you read experiences of vegans/vegetarians who went back to eating meat, many of them report no problems at all. Furthermore, burning muscle mass is not a sign of withdrawal, it’s a sign of inadequate nutrients in the food. I experienced it even though I followed the best vegan dietary guidelines I could find.
The quote of mine does not need any research to back it up. It’s a simple fact that you can find historical correlations. It’s also a simple fact that vegan diets have their own medical issues, it’s not some utopia that suddenly makes you a superman.
“herwin, sure the body takes time to adjust to radical changes in diets.”
okay, thats my point, so thanks for agreeing with me.
nope, burning muscle mass isnt a withdrawal sign but a lack of nutrients, couldnt agree with you more.
dont know where you live (where the veggies only grow three months a year, eh) or if you have acces to good supermarkets and grocerie stores, but i am sure that its possible to have a healthy and delicious vegan meal each day.
wow, i feel like i am living in a cave out of touch with the vegan world. I never heard of vegans turning meateater, but i get the impression from you there there are many of them.
i only can speak out of my own experience, by eating a very tiny piece of meat (kind of hidden ingredient that i wasnt aware of) i got sick and diarea.
its a bit childish i feel, vegan diets dont have their own medical issues like meat, milk, and other animal products do. yes, you have to take care to get all the right nutrition, but you are not getting cancer, diabetes, heartproblems, allergies, obesity,(to name the most obvious diseases related to a meat / animal based diet) from ANY vegan diet.
i have seen the effect of people going veggie and how they could stop taking medicine. thats not a result after a few weeks, but generally it takes a year.
btw, also animal based products like cheese have ingredients that are lightly addictive. so yeah, it has many similarities with nicotine and tobacco.
and i dont understand very well why somebody else has to “back up their bald comments with facts” and you try to get away with a “my quote doesnt need any research to back up because its a simple fact.”
its simple, yeah, but not a fact, what you say.
herwin, let me address your points in reverse order. My quote needed no research because it’s a self-evident truth. You can always find historical correlations. You can find them between pirate populations and global warming, and you can just as surely find them between vegan diets and a number of medical conditions. A large body of research in this area are correlation studies, which must be taken into account when assessing their importance.
Comparing nicotine and dairy products in terms of how addictive they are is nonsense. Just let it go, it’s not an argument worth fighting for.
As to your personal experiences of people stopping taking medicine after getting into a vegetarian diet, you’d have to be far more precise on the examples. Sorry, but I don’t put much weight on these types of arguments. You commonly encounter them while debating religious people claiming to have witnessed miracles. If you have seriously never heard of vegans/vegetarians going back to meat you need to do your research before debating. I mean there have been stories on this very site about it. Another point to research would be the medical conditions linked to vegan diets, thinking there are none is dangerously naive.
There’s no point doubting my assessment of the validity of vegan/vegetarian diet where I live by saying you’re “sure that its possible to have a healthy and delicious vegan meal each day”. I tried it, I know exactly how possible or impossible it is. Like I said it is possible to have a healthy vegan diet (if you don’t mind eating vegetables imported from across the globe for the majority of the year). As for the deliciousness, that’s purely subjective and I wouldn’t say any of the recipes I tried were “delicious”.
Oh, fbr, all you need is for someone to create some imitation horse meat…then you’ll be on your way back to being vegan. I go for using a vital wheat gluten blend…
Sorry, just had to throw that in due to your comments awhile back about eating horses.
a correlation between pirates and global warming ?? what are you talking about ?
so in short you started a veggie diet without any commitment and without any knowledge of making delicious veggie recipes.
So for 4 weeks you were gobbeling food down your throat thinking “why the hell am i eating this tasteles shit!”, right ?
your comments about comparing my experiences with people and how a vegan diet affected their health and how some could stop taking medicines, with that of religious people claiming miracles, is rather stupid and ignorant.
furthermore, i dont say that cheese and cigarettes are the same addictice as you suggest, that would be stupid. i merely say that cheese has an ingredients that is lightly addictive. (and anyone knows that nicotine is heavily addictive)
stopping cigaretes OR drastically changing your diet , both the body needs time to change and has withdrawel effects because it is stronly craving foods / nicotine that the body is used to. this is an unpleasant feeling.
before posting comments like “if you dont mind eating veggie imported halfway around the globe” you should do a little bit more research about the food the cows (your meat and milk) are eating. is that grown locally ?? i dont think so. also that comes from far away, and anybody knows that producing meat (and milk) takes so much more grains and soy, that any animal product has a far bigger ecological footprint.
besides, you really think you can substitue veggies and fruit for meat and milk ?
you should as your pirates, as many know that living on a ship for a long time without fresh veggeis and fruit will make you sick.
if you cant make a delicious veggie mal, thats okay, but i am sure other people can, with the same ingredients thta are available in your local supermarket or grocery store.
i am so glad that there are at least more inteligent and more open people like Oprah Winfrey who tried a vegan diet for 21 days, who start with a healthy commitment, a vegan coach, and are honestly so surprised because its much more delicous than they anticipated.
herwin, did you not read what I wrote or just failed to comprehend it? As I stated above multiple times, I did make a commitment of 4 weeks, and I did a lot of research on how to prepare vegan and vegetarian meals.
You claim a person no longer needs medication for a condition after switching to vegan diet. A religious person claims that a person no longer needs medication for a condition after praying/going to church. If you do not provide any further evidence, these two are precisely equal arguments. I do not put any weight on either.
So you keep desperately clinging to your dairy addiction argument. How about stating exactly what this addictive ingredient is?
Yes, large portion of what is fed to cattle is produced locally (for various reasons including taxation and the fact that it’s easier to store than human food). I wouldn’t be surprised if the ecological footprint of meat produced this way was less than of the fresh vegetables that have to be imported.
Not once did I claim that you can substitute meat and milk for veggies and fruit. What I’ve been arguing from the beginning is that meat and milk can be a part of a healthy diet.
As for the pirates, they did not lack only fresh vegetables, they also lacked fresh dairy and other animal based products. Also, if you get the data of pirate populations and the data of global temperature, you will find a strong correlation. That’s a simple demonstration of the pitfalls of correlation studies.
the pirates and other seaman that had acces to fish (duh), and also fresh meat on many times from life stock like goats or turtles. nonetheles they developed scurvy on their long journeys, because of lack of fresh veggie and fruits. this was solved when they took fresh veggies and fruits on their trips.
previously they also had acces to milk on board (from goats, life stock at board or taken from the islands) but that didnt solve the problem.
yes, you noticed correctly, i failed and still fail to understand your type of “commitment”. maybe its because when reading comments like this, make me think you didnt have any serious or well thaught commitment with strong believ and or feelings in the first place.
Quote : “To commit there would have to be a good reason, and the only ones that I could come up with were either ethical or religious ones”
the ONLY reasons you could come up with are ethical or religious reasons ? well, “ethical reasons” sounds good to me ! what else do you want ?
again, i dont say anything like that dairy is addictive, you should try to read better. all i say is that the body needs time when you change your diet and it reacts just the same way like withdrawal symptons. you really want to deny that ?
even changing habits causes withdrawal symptons. ask an avid tv addict (and his family!) how he feels when he cant watch tv for a couple of days.
so my point is, that if you appearantly without any good and strong convictions, and whithout any clou of cooking a good vegan meal, (yes, you can stuff your head with reading books but that doesnt qualify as “good preparations”) is it a surprise that your body reacts in a negative way ? rather, i would be surprised if it would work out.
fdp, here is a link to a news article from the australian Daily Telegraph about cheese as well as meat being added recently by scientists to the link of the other addictive foods like chocolate, coffee, sugar, etc.
http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030623/002505.html
so comparing the habit of smoking with the habit of consuming great daily quantities of animal products like meat and milk and cheese, isnt that far fetched.
Happy Vegan Birthday, Parrish. I turned 5 on 1/1/09 … xoxo