==SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO== Our little VegSource twins are growing up! Remember back when they were 3-years-old, when we opened the website? Well they just turned 17 and today are featured in mega-pop star Justin Bieber's new music video, "U...

97-year-old Jack LaLanne knows a few things. Back years ago, he gave his list of 10 points for healthy living.  Good stuff. =Scroll Down for Video=  ...

If you adjust for inflation and income, Americans have never spent less on food than they have in recent years. And yet many feel we've also never paid such a high price. U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show the average...

As the Chinese economy beefs up, so are its citizens ... to the point where "Fat" is no longer just a popular name, but also the description for 100 million Chinese citizens.That number is small compared to China's 1.5 billion...

Clean water for drinking and other human needs such as irrigation is a precious and increasingly scarce resource. Indeed, the increasing scarcity of water is one more reason to promote vegetarianism. Meat production not only pollutes water, due to the...

Meat features prominently in many holidays worldwide. Here is an example from Chile of how veg*n activists are seeking to start new traditions. In Chile, the country's independence from Spain is celebrated on 18-19 Sep, with meat eating playing a...

[photo: Tina with Sir Paul McCartney back in 1999, when he accepted a posthumous IVU award on behalf of Linda. Tina is from Liverpool like Sir Paul.] Tina Fox needs no introduction to the leaders of IVU member societies, who will...

If anyone is interested in joining IVU Manager, John Davis, at both the veg congresses in Nairobi and Dubai in December, they can easily be linked by using Emirates Airlines, based in Dubai. They fly from most parts of the...

On Friday, September 24, CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviewed Caldwell Esselstyn Jr MD and Dean Ornish MD, the doctors whose diet former President Bill Clinton has used to successfully return to his high school weight -- and to reverse his serious...

The Indonesia Vegetarian Society (IVS) called for the implementation of a meat-free Monday campaign in the city to improve the health of residents as well as to help save the environment.IVS Jakarta coordinator Roeddy Zeng said Friday the organization had...

My editor wanted me to ask you: Why is killing a whale worse than killing a pig, for example, when a pig is intelligent, too?I get this question from the Japanese a lot, and I find it offensive. How can...

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist. I've always been shy about being critical of others' choices because I hate when people do that to me. I'm often interrogated about being...

Funding for the National School Lunch Program is set to expire in less than ten days -- and no sign of movement on the school lunch bill (aka the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010). Insiders are still hoping that...

The fine particles of pollution that hang in the air can increase the risk for sudden cardiac arrest, according to a new study conducted by a team from Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center and The Feinstein Institute for Medical...

PARIS - Citizens of the world's richest countries are getting fatter and fatter and the United States is leading the charge, an organization of leading economies said Thursday in its first ever obesity forecast. Three out of four Americans will...

SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Watch Bill Clinton on CNN describe to Wolf Blitzer how the trailblazing work of Cleveland Clinic surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. led Clinton to embrace a nearly 100% plant-based lifestyle, losing 24 pounds in the process and...

Veteran actress CLORIS LEACHMAN has followed her diet for 50 years after becoming a vegetarian at the age of 35.The Young Frankenstein star gave up meat in an effort to get healthy after she was struck down with hayfever, arthritis and...

SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Last week EarthSave board member Rip Esselstyn and EarthSave CEO Jeff Nelson traveled to the small rural town of Mercersburg, PA, to undertake a unique project.  Rip had been invited by local Mercersburg physician, Liz George,...

[The Wrekin is a large hill in the otherwise flat landscape of North Shropshire, England] A fun day with a difference was on offer in the shadow of The Wrekin when protesters fighting plans to mine coal at the beauty...

Bill Clinton talks about going veg to reverse heart disease, so he can be healthy in the years ahead to see his potential grandchildren. Scroll down for video. We also have this from ecorazzi.com: "I'm trying to be one of...