{"id":729,"date":"2009-06-28T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2009-06-28T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T15:09:24","slug":"our-pride-message-love-and-let-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/28\/our-pride-message-love-and-let-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pride Message:  Love and Let Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sfpride.org\/\">Pride parade<\/a> is today, Sunday, 28th, starting at 10 am.\u00a0 It will be broadcast on KRON 4, Comcast Digital Channel 99, Clear Channel Radio on\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfpridelive.com\/\">SFPrideLive.co<\/a>m Live &amp; Uncensored from 10:00 a.m, KOFY TV 20\/Cable 13, starting at 8:00 p.m and\u00a0 Comcast Channel 1 On Demand\/Local Events starting June 29th at 7:00 p.m. until July 31st<span style=\"color: black;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"> <\/span><em><\/em><em>Look for the rainbow contingent &#8211; that&#8217;ll be us!! <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bay Area Vegetarians is a local group that gives free vegetarian info, support and recipes from Sacramento to Santa Rosa to Santa Cruz!  We have volunteers wearing lettuce bikinis to show off their healthy veggie bodies.  We have nurses handing out \u201cprescriptions\u201d to Go Veg to avoid heart disease and obesity.  We have animals to represent all the animals who don\u2019t want to end up in a slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n<p>One member, Alex Bury, wearing nothing but cabbage and lettuce leaves, used to be a professional chef.  She cooked and ate meat every day.  But now she\u2019s a proud member of Bay Area Vegetarians and PETA, and only cooks vegan food!  Parade marcher Jeff Hoffman did the same thing\u2014he graduated from the California Culinary Academy, but now specializes in scrumptious veg food.  His cupcakes are famous.  Jeff\u2019s vegetarian husband, Drew, is training for a marathon and having fun in a lettuce bikini today!   Speaking of running, vegan Michelle just ran her first ultra marathon\u201412 hours\u2014a month ago to raise funds for animals.   She sure did recover quickly!  Their professional coach and personal trainer,  Darren Middlesworth, is vegan and representing his field in a some fine lettuce shorts.  Member Kathy Buckley comes all the way from Iowa and Markush Madurai came from Calgary to march with the veggies in Pride!<\/p>\n<p>Bay Area Vegetarians has had a booth here for years, but this is the first time we\u2019ve been in the parade. It\u2019s something we\u2019ve wanted to do for many years.  Today we are marching with members of many local groups, including East Bay Animal Advocates, PCRM, PETA, the LGBT community and local animal rescue specialists.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud to live in the Bay Area, where Pride is celebrated in such a big way.  We\u2019re proud vegetarians. Today we march to share our compassion and love for all: Love and Let Live.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more of the free recipeswe&#8217;ll be handing out, just call 1-888-VEG-FOOD or visit GOVEG.com.  Eating meat hurts animals, and veg foods are a yummy way to be compassionate and healthy!   Happy Pride from Bay Area Vegetarians!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pride parade is today, Sunday, 28th, starting at 10 am.\u00a0 It will be broadcast on KRON 4, Comcast Digital Channel 99, Clear Channel Radio on\u00a0 SFPrideLive.com Live &amp; Uncensored from 10:00 a.m, KOFY TV 20\/Cable 13, starting at 8:00 p.m and\u00a0 Comcast Channel 1 On Demand\/Local Events starting June 29th at 7:00 p.m. until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[49,64,21,20,12,18,37,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}