Obesity affects every aspect of a people’s lives, from health to relationships.

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It’s like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

What does homophobia look like when it’s stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who’ve...

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn’t long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay’s life began...

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal’s rotting carcass.

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

There’s no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

Agribusiness – with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts – essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It’s the rich fox guarding the filthy,...

Bolivia recently did what every country should do – banned the use of animals in circuses.

It’s time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America’s horses once and for all.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

I say peace begins on your plate.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of...

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn’t mess with.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

The natural world is not indestructible.

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal’s secret.

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

Taking care of our families isn’t just about putting food on the table today. It’s about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species...

Denial is a very powerful thing.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn’t mean we can let them off the hook for that.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

When you’re in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

There’s no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is...

There’s no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

The fact is: America’s obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed...

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

I’ve bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.

The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and...

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it’s totally safe.

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media’s all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it’s to save the horses from...

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.

Every decision we make – when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food – is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It’s an environmental and moral choice.