"Oprah" Vegan Nutrition Spotlight On episode with Kathy Freston author ... - Los Angeles Times

Oprah Winfrey is no stranger to a vegan diet - you know, trying to clean the vegan of 21 days in 2008 - but they recently raised the stakes, convince 378 employees at its production company vegan week for one and document the results of Tuesday "Oprah" - episode.

Winfrey had invited Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and a specialist in the meat industry, and Kathy Freston, whose new book "Veganist: weight loss, health, change the world" is currently sellers Amazon top. The program also was a segment in which reporter Lisa Ling visited a slaughterhouse.

Freston, whose previous book based on Winfrey's first foray into the world of veganism, is nothing if not a persuasive advocate for diet herbal: Journalist John Heilpern, who recently interviewed for Freston Vanity Fair, ended his article with the sentence: "I'll never be a man of alfalfa and brown rice, but since my lunch with Kathy Freston, I decided to give up eating all meat."

Animal rights activists appeared on the episode won divided, with many comments on Twitter and Facebook, they offered value exposure Oprah vegan, but not the tone of the debate on the slaughter of animals seen some as minimizing cruelty inherent in killing animals valued for food supply. After the jump, a sample from the Vegan chatter on Twitter.

PETA estimates that more than 16 billion animals for food production die each year.

- Lindsay Barnett

Photo: Winfrey in 2010. Credit: Evan Agostini / Associated Press