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Tonya Kay
Tonya Kay is a professional dancer, television personality, film actress and danger artist living in Los Angeles. A vegetarian of 25 years, vegan for 15 of those and raw vegan for the last 7, Tonya Kay pioneers the green health movement with appearances, publications and green media (available at KayosMarket). Last year saw Tonya Kay on the Tonight Show, Criminal Minds and starring in the Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose comic book series. This year, look for her on House, Glee, Hallmark movie of the week Wish List and feature film Bold Native. For more on Tonya, visit her website.
Some select the foods they eat based on taste. Some are trying to affect their body image. Others make food choices based purely on convenience. Children often don’t get to choose at all; they eat what they are given. The reasons for food selection are as numerous as the stars in the sky. One thing is certain: to those of us living in the United States, at least, it is a choice. 
"Tonya Kay's a vegan," my girlfriend says to her farm-town mother on the telephone.
I would be remiss in discussing certified wines if I did not mention a most integral certification found regionally in northern California: Fish Friendly Farming® (
The “sustainable” wine certification is vital in the larger picture of what eco-conscious winemaking is all about. Yet this certification is by far the least organized internationally—and the most intangible to the wine aficionado.
Another label the green consumer can look for when choosing a wine is the vineyard’s biodynamic certification. Worldwide, there are more than 450 certified biodynamic wine producers and, from my experience, that number is rapidly growing.
