In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
Hunger Pains
Amal is a nutritionist who spent time working in Action Against Hunger’s Therapeutic Feeding Centres in Niger. Action Against Hunger is, an international organisation that is at the forefront of the worldwide fight against hunger, with the long term goal of aiding vulnerable populations in recouping their self sufficiency.
Starting Out
I was a hospital based dietician originally. My first look at international humanitarian aid was working for four months at an orphanage at a nutrition centre in Honduras. The children that came in were really sick. I didn’t know if I was up to handling that kind of deprivation but I realised that I could see the positive side of what I was working towards.
Today is the first day of the British summer (allegedly), and this morning I caught up with Microsoft's James McCarthy, who had taken the opportunity to work for the day from a treehouse. I can't think of a better place to work, personally, though I admit it would be better if the weather had been more seasonal! We chatted about the green benefits of flexible working, how it isn't always necessary to travel in order to get work done, and how we could all benefit from a bit of flexibility in our attitudes to work.
AnyJunk’s boss, Jason Mohr, tells Hippyshopper why he binned a high-earning career in corporate finance and recycled himself to start an eco waste collection company. The qualified solicitor, who has an MBA, set up ANY JUNK?, which diverts more than 40 per cent of the junk it collects from landfill, winning a number of green awards for its recycling efforts. The company is famed for composting Skoda’s giant cake used on their recent Fabia advert.
In the final part of Celebrity Veggies Dawn Mellowship grills US actor Lisa Edelstein, who is currently starring in the FOX hit series HOUSE opposite Hugh Laurie. Lisa devotes a great deal of time to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in their efforts to re-home rescued animals and pets.
Why veggie? When I was a teenager I had food poisoning from a bagel because the bagel was made on a grill with meat and I could taste the meat on the bagel. I got really sick. Then I started having these nightmares about meat, they were creepy like this dream where I sat watching myself eating chicken for half an hour, ripping off the meat and sucking on the cartilage, snapping the veins and knawing on the bone as you do. By the end of the dream I realised that I was actually eating miniature human legs and arms. That just shifted my understanding of things and I became a vegetarian and it suited me.
In part III of Celebrity Veggies Dawn interviews ‘Living Doll’ Cindy Jackson, famous for having had the most plastic surgery operations of anyone worldwide. She is also the lead singer of UK rock band The Dollz and has penned books about cosmetic surgery and anti-ageing. Cindy supports various charities including PETA and the RSPCA.
Why veggie? As a teenager I found cruelty to animals abhorrent. I grew up in a farming community which doesn’t give you much chance to separate the fact that you are eating an animal from it just being food. People who live in the cities go to the shops and they see it plastic wrapped and they don’t equate that with the animal. I saw it when it was alive so I made the connection that I was eating a living, sentient being. I instinctively found that disgusting.
In part II of Celebrity Veggies Dawn chats to Jenny Seagrove, an English actress whose credits include: A Woman of Substance, A Local Hero, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and the BBC drama Judge John Deed. Jenny is also a campaigner for deregulation of the nutritional remedy industry.
Why veggie? It was a slow build up. I have always been passionate about animals and when I was much younger I married an Indian who at that time was vegetarian. We ate a lot of South Indian vegetarian food which was absolutely delicious so that was what got me into it as well as becoming aware of the plight of the animals. That is what keeps me vegan.
Celebrity diet trends come and go in a heartbeat but some famous folks are pursuing long term lifestyle choices such as vegetarianism and veganism. In a four part series Dawn Mellowship grills four celebs on their nutritional beliefs.
Alexandra Paul has starred in over 50 feature films and television programmes, Most notably Alexandra did a five year stint in Baywatch.
Why veggie? When I was 14 I read a book called Diet for a small planet by Frances Moore and she cited all the environmental reasons so I stopped eating meat and fish. Then I read a book called Animal Liberation by Peter Singer when I was 15 and I started to become aware of animal rights. When I was in my 20s I dated a man who was an animal rights activist and I gave up leather and stopped having products in my house that were tested on animals.
In this ongoing series Dawn Mellowship interviews women who have dedicated their careers to ethical causes. Could this be your next career move?
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In the final part of Celebrity Veggies Dawn Mellowship grills US actor Lisa Edelstein, who is currently starring in the FOX hit series HOUSE opposite Hugh Laurie. Lisa devotes a great deal of time to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in their efforts to re-home rescued animals and pets. 
In part III of Celebrity Veggies Dawn interviews ‘Living Doll’ Cindy Jackson, famous for having had the most plastic surgery operations of anyone worldwide. She is also the lead singer of UK rock band The Dollz and has penned books about cosmetic surgery and anti-ageing. Cindy supports various charities including PETA and the RSPCA.
In part II of Celebrity Veggies Dawn chats to Jenny Seagrove, an English actress whose credits include: A Woman of Substance, A Local Hero, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and the BBC drama Judge John Deed. Jenny is also a campaigner for deregulation of the nutritional remedy industry.
Celebrity diet trends come and go in a heartbeat but some famous folks are pursuing long term lifestyle choices such as vegetarianism and veganism. In a four part series Dawn Mellowship grills four celebs on their nutritional beliefs. 
