JournalNow.com: Veggin' Out

Contrary to a popular stereotype, vegetarians are not all champions of self-denial, pathetically munching a sprout on the sidelines while watching the omnivores have all the culinary fun. Instead, the vegetarians we know love good food and know where to get it. They aren't about to settle for a bland meal, either at home or at a restaurant.

The Perfect Man

He’s Captain Kirk, and so much more. As the Journal‘s Tim Clodfelter recently noted, actor William Shatner has mastered so many entertainment genres: science fiction, Esperanto film, courtroom drama, cop shows, Westerns, sitcoms, anthology dramas and so on.

OK, maybe Esperanto film doesn’t really rise to the level of an entertainment genre, and maybe Tim didn’t really mention it. But Incubus exists, unwatchable as it may be. And the Shatner, always, is watchable, mockable, wonderful….

And, he’s a vegetarian.

How did I not know this before? It took the new Encyclopedia Shatnerica to bring it to my attention. The Encyclopedia reports, “Like his friend and fellow Star Trek case member Leonard Nimoy, Shatner is a longtime vegetarian. While he’s rarely spoken about it in interviews, his commitment sems to have both an ethical and a medical basis.”

Shatner also is the host of a 1982 documentary, The Vegetarian World, which is widely available online.

As he says in the video, “Vegetarianism isn’t just a diet. It’s an entire approach to life.”

A vegetarian Captain Kirk—Can you think of a better definition of the perfect man?

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By Julie Harris on 07/22/2008 (4:14 pm)