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This week, Natalie Portman went on an anti-meat campaign, British theater companies went digital, and a Glee single went gold. View our gallery of the week in art, music, TV, and film.
The cold front has set in, and everyone seems to have a lot of opinions this week. Natalie Portman is stumping for vegans, blind/deaf advocacy groups have formed an alliance against 13-year-old actress Abigail Breslin, critics are crowing about This Is It and The House of the Devil, and Bill Cosby is back talking to the press about how abominable sitcoms are these days. But there are some happy spots—Glee’s first single went gold, Michael Jackson’s memorial film raked in some millions, a British Web site is bringing theater to your iPod, the Lilith Fair is returning, and a 23-year-old singer who recorded a pop song in his parents’ basement is living the American Dream with a No. 1 single on the Billboard charts. All this—and many more opinions—inside the Week in Culture.
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"When did Natalie Portman get to be so amusing? "
When she did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8e6-IeQ0aw
Meat is not a bad thing.
The problem comes with the inhumane
treatment of animals in the processing
and what garbage they are forced to eat,
not to mention the injected hormones.
As much as some people despise hunters,
give them credit for " gathering " their own food
where animals are free until that " fateful day. "
We are omnivores with different types
of teeth for chewing and grinding different food sources,
meat, vegetables, nuts,
and for the couch potato . . . cheetos & snickers bars.
Time for a " Sea Kitten " sandwich with tarter source.
First eating meat was compared to the Holocaust, now it's considered rape. Like I always say, the far-left wing crazies have more in common with the far-right nuts than with average normal people. They should seriously consider breeding together!
Natalie Portman's a twit whose meatless diet has left her brain-damaged.
Humans need meat in order to live. Insufficient meat creates huge metabolic imbalances which shortens life and impairs intelligence.
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