Wow there’s been a lot of press about vegetarians lately!

Of course Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer has been front and center. Foer was recently interviewed several times, including on The Ellen Degeneres Show, and has written articles for CNN, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and more. I’m reading Eating Animals right now and it is excellent – for both vegans and non-vegans.

The Denver Channel 7 news just published an article by a Jennie Castor, a video journalist who decided, along with her carnivore husband, to embark on a vegan experiment to see if the change in diet would improve in their health. Well, their health did improve (!), and you can read about their ups and downs in making the transition to a plant-based diet on denverchannel.com.

Vegetarian kids were recently featured in an LA Times article, with reference to the American Dietetic Association position paper published in July that states “Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.”

More from California – the Oakland Raiders stadium just won the Most Veg-Friendly NFL Concession Stand award from PETA. Go Raiders!

And finally, I certainly wasn’t sad to find this in my reader this morning!

Tony Gonzalez, the starting tight end for the Atlanta Falcons (who was on my list of Vegetarian Athletes), and his wife October posing nude for PETA. Love it!