Moby in LA for His New Book "Gristle"

Got to meet one of my all time favorite musicians, Moby, last night at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Moby was there with his co-editor Miyun Park speaking about food safety issues and how annoying he used to be as a militant vegan. He said at one point, it had gotten so bad, he almost refused to speak with anyone not vegan. Well thank goodness he's changed his tune. Today, he practices compassion and understanding that people come from different backgrounds and places in life. And that veganism is a path and a journey that changes day to day.

Award winning actress Frances Fisher was also there last night. She looks great, and was proud to share with me about her vegan catered holiday party last year.

You can read more about last night in my full post.

I gifted Moby an early copy of Ani's Raw Food Essentials and Miyun a copy of Ani's Raw Food Desserts.

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Comments

[DebbyM]

06:44 PM on 04/09/2010

Most vegans go through a stage that qualifies them as the obnoxious vegan but it is born out of a deep sadness and despair for the lack of care that comes from the rest of the consuming world, for the suffering and pain that is the lot in life for the majority of animals in this world. As time goes by, we do learn to close off the emotional wounds and hopefully at that point have learned to manage our frustrations in this regard. The one thing that I would point out to those of you who feel inclined to challenge vegans is that 1. we've usually studied out this issue very carefully as we've made the changes in our lifestyles and 2. while we move away from the stage of being the obnoxious vegan, most of our "attackers" continue to be uneducated and obnoxious. Just my opinion.