Vegetarian Star

It’s been awhile since Maureen McCormick had a chance to run around and bug Greg Brady on the set of the late 60s and 70s show, “The Brady Bunch.” Consequently, with no Greg, Peter, or Bobby, or even Jan and Cindy to bother, “Marcia,” has been a little sedentary and put on a few pounds.

To regain her youthful Hollywood figure, she signed up for the Vh1 series Celebrity Fit Club to help shed a few pounds. She competed and won, but still feels work needs to be done. The folks at Peta think they can help. They’ve sent her a vegetarian starter kit, and told her the best way to slim down is to go vegan. An excerpt from the letter:

“Not only will a vegan diet help you slim down, it will also help you fight an array of ailments, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and certain types of cancer. Going vegan is also the easiest thing that you can do save the environment and spare the lives of thousands of animals who are slaughtered for food each year. It’s never too late to turn over a new leaf…”

It would be incredible to have Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, go vegan, vegan, vegan, and come out as the next veg celeb. Of course, Peta’s got a stake in this too. From Celebrity Fit Club to Celebrity Strip (for Peta ads) Club, we’re sure they’re hoping she’ll sign up for a membership.

via Peta blog

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R & B soul diva, India.Arie will admit to liking a wide variety of foods, but still is careful about what she puts in her mouth.

“I really like most curry dishes, Thai food, and tofu. Although I like a lot of different things, I don’t take a lot of risks with food because I’m very particular about what I put in my body.”

Luckily, for the Grammy award winning singer, a vegetarian diet is full of variety to spice up her palate and finding a restaurant that suits her needs isn’t hard to do-even in other continents.

While traveling in South Africa, she found the equivalent of a vegetarian “hole-in-the-wall,”-a small vegetarian restaurant ran by a single woman.

“She used a meat substitute she got from Durban in southeast Africa. I went every day for a week to eat there.”

When back in the U.S., she’s a fan of Annie’s Natural Goddess Dressing, raw almond butter, and frozen bananas in smoothies.

Read more about the “things that feed” her at Today’s Diet Nutrition.com

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Olivia Wilde plays a neurotic self-diagnosing doctor with a terminal brain tumor on Fox’s House who describes herself as a “sort-of vegetarian who eats fish.”

Not eating any other non-plant item but fish is better than downing Big Macs every day. But with the fish population dwindling and the impact that could have on ocean life, we’d like to see Wilde work harder to be a little more eco-friendly. And we think we have the answer: Eat Gwyneth Paltrow’s vegan pancakes.

No, this won’t restore the sardines she munches on while watching episodes of herself and Lisa Edelstein on widescreen, but at least she’d be reducing her dairy intake. And she can down a lot of pancakes to offset her “print.”

Wilde once won a contest for eating 33 pancakes in 20 minutes! She entered the contest just to prove she could eat as much as the macho men who doubted her gluttonous talents.

Maybe it’s the spirit of competition and a gauntlet thrown down that drives her into action.

Oh, Olivia, can you hear us? We don’t think you can stop eating fish. Not hardcore enough to do it…

via Celebgossipz

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Photo: hjl on Flickr

It’s Poll Time! Vegetarian Star will be starting something very exciting in the next week. The elections are almost over, but the spirit of democracy can still remain. We’ll be featuring polls regularly, but like Heather Mills and her food line name, we’re keeping the content secret until it’s launched.

So be on the lookout in the next week to give us your lovely opinion. In the meantime, here’s a little warm up for your future patriotic duties:

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“Do the things you can do. Stop paying the slaughterman. Stop paying the factory farmers. Stop supporting the corporations that are destroying everything. And everyone can do that.”

—-Chrissie Hynde, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, on how anyone can take actions that preserve the planet, including reducing the consumption of meat.

via SMH

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The election countdown has begun. Okay, so maybe, depending on how fanatical you are, you may have been counting weeks ago, but with less than a week remaining until a new Pres is named to take the helm in D.C., everybody’s getting their 2 cents in, including celebrities, during these last days.

Henry Rollins, who’s resume includes singer and songwriter, stand-up comedian, spoken word master, book author, band founder, and publisher put more than a few cents in to Time Out Mag on his political views, including the Republican “wealth trickles down,” theory:

“[Republicans]They like big business, they believe in the trickle-down theory, that we are supposedly going to eat the crumbs that fall from Caesar’s mouth at the big feast. I would argue that they have very good crumb catchers to make sure you get less and less. And so, I think the good sense falls with the Democrats.”

Instead of feasting on crumbs, Rollins stay healthy by juicing and eating a lot of soy protein. “I don’t eat red meat. I don’t eat pork, lamb or chicken,” he said.

Read the rest of Rollins’ interview with Time Out.

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Russell Brand isn’t known for his saintly behavior or tact. Some might find it funny, but many find his antics and comments offensive. So when people found out he was on the cover of Peta’s Vegetarian Starter Kit, a flood of phone calls and email were sent to the organization by some who didn’t want him associated with the introduction to a meat-free life.

As if Peta wasn’t contraversial enough already.

The latest offensive act, which is the reason people are protesting his appearance on the kit, involved making an on air prank phone call to the home of actor Andrew Sachs.  The call involved leaving an answering machine message stating he, in words we’ll rephrase to keep us from getting blocked from “safe search,” had sexual relations with Sachs granddaughter. Go here to get the uncut version.

Brand was forced to resign from the BBC “Radio 2” show and issued an apology, but in a sarcastic way:

“I would like to take this opportunity to issue a personal Russell Brand apology to Andrew Sachs, the great comic actor who played Manuel, for a message Jonathan and I left on his answerphone, but it was quite funny.”

But hey, it was a joke right? Besides, they belong to the same club.

“The cover will have him on it because Mr. Sachs, who is also a Peta supporter, has accepted Mr. Brand’s apology, and that’s good enough for us,” said Robbie LeBlanc, Peta’s director.

via NME and The Guardian

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Something stinks. We think it’s Lauren Conrad. She doesn’t actually smell of real fish (depending on if she’s eaten recently), but her actions do.

The FORMER vegetarian appears in an interview in the November issue of Cosmopolitan and says that although she used to be a strict vegetarian, she now eats fish.

MTV’s “The Hills” actress also reports craving salts instead of sweets, calling it a “salt tooth.”

You can pick up a copy of Cosmopolitan, which has been on the stands since October 14th and learn how Lauren deals with trying to be a normal 22-year old living in a fish (he, he, have to get that pun in) bowl as a Hollywood star.

via Ace Showbiz

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