She talks about how she went vegan 16 years ago and has learned so much in the time that she’s been vegan. Her passion is clearly evident. She cares about animals and the environment a great deal.

Some quotes:

• “I went vegan after watching a documentary”
• “They’re considered commodities. I mean, they’re babies…”
• “[the animal] has a soul”
• “we all know that our dogs and our cats are very different from one another but people don’t think about how each of these animals that we call dinner have these same kinds of personalities”

The show, a murder mystery series, was about the murder of a chicken farmer. But a side story involved the artist Angela‘s desire to sponsor a rescued piglet. She wanted to raise enough money to care for this one piglet… and she found supporters in unusual places: bacon-lovers and health-motivated vegetarians.

Now, FOX is asking viewers to help name the piglet.

The Bones website asks people to email their piglet name suggestions to angelaspiglet@gmail.com.

What would you name a pink, big-eared, rescued piglet?

“a group of 176 post-menopausal women was randomized to one of four diets based on a different protein source: animal, dairy, soy, or vegetarian. All diets were equal in calories as well as in total amounts of protein, calcium, and salt. Dietitians bought the food, weighed and measured it, and prepared it. Study participants picked up their meals every day for eight weeks.”

“’We used actual food that real people could buy in the store to see what kind of impact we could have,’ Sellmeyer [the first director of the new metabolic bone center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center] says.”

“Although she is still analyzing the data, her initial findings show that diets based on meat and other animal and dairy-based proteins cause more calcium loss because they increase the amount of acid in the body. On the other hand, low-acid vegetable and soy-based diets reduce the excretion of calcium.”