Vegetarian Star

So Joan Jett was in a hurry. And her primary job is to be a rock and roller gal. We’ll give her (the reporter) that. But it looks like blogger Mary Colurso of AI.com got a lot of other information out of Joan during the brief 10 minute interview, which didn’t cover any of Joan’s veganism because it seemed “frivolous” based on the amount of time. Like the fact that she’s a workaholic:

“Well, I don’t like any time off,” Jett said. “I think people, when they get successful, take time to enjoy it. They take time off, go on vacation, go do other things. Not that it means artistic mold, but the audience moves so much faster these days. In the past, yeah, you could take time off and come back a year or six months later. But I’ve never taken any time off. Since I started with the Runaways, I’ve always been touring, always doing it. It keeps me feeling interested, feeling out there, feeling connected.”

It was actually during one of her nonstop road touring that the founding member of 70s girl rockers The Runaways,  who later went on to be the front woman of The Blackhearts,  made the decision to stop eating meat, according to an interview with GoVeg:

“I was on the road eight months a year, and meat was too heavy to eat late at night, so I ate other things. I slowly lost my taste for meat, and at the same time, I experienced a slowly dawning awareness that it is unnecessary to eat animals in order to live in this world.”

We’re letting Colurso get by this time. But if she gets another 10 minutes with the vegan woman who loves rock and roll, we hope the first question she pops is, “What did you eat for lunch today?”

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Yesterday when you saw Amanda Beard on our website, she was wearing a little less clothing to protest the use of fur. However, some are saying she suspiciously has done a 180 turnaround since 2007 and may be a hypocrite.

In 2007, Beard told Meghan Cleary on her blog at missmeghan.com that’d she’d go to the grave in her favorite pair of…gasp…leather sandals.

“I wear them on the pool deck, at the beach, and even sneak them into my wardrobe for dinners,” Beard said.

She is also reported to have told SmartMoney Magazine in September of that same year that she’d never settle for buying a low-quality leather jacket.

She says she’d rather go naked than wear fur, but maybe skin is okay for her??!!

PETA has been known to sever ties with celebrities who flip-flop (pun intended) on their stance of vegness and animals rights, including breaking their relationship with model Cindy Crawford when she sported a fur coat on a catwalk after making an anti-fur ad.

But PETA also has a forgiving and understanding side.

“Making the transition to a vegan lifestyle is a gradual process,” PETA spokesman Michael McGraw said. “We’re happy to work with celebrities on even the most introductory levels.”

No word on how or if they’ll be working with their latest nude anti-fur spokesmodel.

via OC Register

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Sarah Mair and Hugh Blair are two bloggers documenting their travel experiences at Tale Of Two Burghs. It was a visit to Edinburgh, where there is a restaurant called David Bann, where the waiter gave the dish on K.D. Lang’s favorite meal there:

“Damien asked the server what she recommended and she told us that her favorite– and k.d. Lang’s apparently— was tart of mushroom, spinach and Criffell cheese: wild and cultivated mushrooms cooked with wine, garlic and tarragon blended with fresh spinach and Criffel, a semi soft cheese from Dumfries, baked on homemade puff pastry. Served with baby potatoes, carrots and onion gravy. It did not disappoint.”

Lang once made headlines with her, “Meat Stinks,” commercials, which angered some members of the beef farming community. We’re not trying to offend, but how else should we put this? Meat stinks… angers…they say truth does hurt.

Lang’s latest album, Watershed, was released in February of this year and is the first original material she’s produced since 2000.

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Ahem…she sure looks comfortable in her own skin.

Joining the long list of celebs to strip for animal rights causes, Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard posed naked in front of an American flag in Beijing for a PETA advertisement.

“I have seen a lot of the videos, and (it) brings me to tears,” she said. “What (some people) think is pretty is actually something that’s very gruesome and gross.”

With her sleek toned physique, being labeled one of the sexiest athletes, and appearances in Sports Illustrated and FHM magazines, this swimmer is definitely anything but gross.

via This London

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Forrest Kline of the band hellogoodbye, spoke with the Editor of The Los Angeles Loyolan,  newspaper for Loyola Marymount University, where he answered “11 burning questions,” including why on earth anyone would name their kid Forrest:

“My grandpa’s name is Forrest Scott Kline,” he said. “My dad’s name is Scott Forrest Kline. My name is Forrest Scott Kline. They just flip-flopped I guess.”

Now, that we’ve gotten that question out of the way, it’s time to move on to what we feel is a more “hot” question: Why did he become vegan?

“I’ve been vegan for two, maybe three years and I was vegetarian a year before that. I decided to go vegetarian because of moral, animal cruelty kind of reasons. I didn’t want to eat animals. I made a slow transition. I stopped eating red meat. I slowly added more things.”

Although he didn’t say he was straight edge, he does talk of living a pretty clean lifestyle. Although he said his sister, was a “bad influence” when he was in junior high when he did drink alcohol and smoke, he prefers to get his thrills off non-drug sources, like music, now.

“I don’t like the idea of kind of being out of your own head [and] not really knowing what’s going on, that kind of thing, and not being in control. I’m kind of a hands on control [freak]. [I] can’t let go.”

Read more of what Forrest had to say, here.

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Chris Walla is a vegetarian, but things haven’t always been that way. As a teenager, he made the decision after realizing he was on the verge of eating anywhere from 2-6 hamburgers a day if he didn’t change his diet quick.

These days, it’s more like 2-6 servings of veggies every day and a whole lotta Amy’s Kitchen Frozen Meals, which accompany him while on tour with Death Cab For Cutie.

“They are so wonderful and so easy!  Pretty much everything that company (Amy’s Kitchen) does is pretty great,” said Walla.

He also gives good advice for those who are not quite old enough to make their own food choices.

“It was a bit tricky as a 15-year-old living at home in a household where, you know … my mom and dad were “meat and potatoes” Americans. Their diets consisted of a meat main dish, potatoes and gravy, and a vegetable side–that sort of thing. It’s a little difficult to get through that when you’re so dependent on somebody else for your food. Just know that if it’s something that’s important to you, there will be a point in your life when you’re in control of what you eat and why you eat it.”

Read the rest of his interview with PETA.

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With a single out called, “The Geeks were Right,” we had to do our research and check out what else The Faint had to offer.  They are a dance/punk new wave band from Omaha, Nebraska of all places. They were all avid skateboarders growing up, but when member Todd Fink developed knee problems, he turned his focus to music as well as recruiting his friends Dapose, Joel Peterson, Clark Baechle and vegetarian Jacob Thiele.

The band is currently teaming up with PETA and if you go to this website before August 13th, you can enter to win a copy of their latest CD, Fasciinatiion.

Member Jacob Thiele sat down to make a little video for PETA as well, where he discussed his motives for going vegetarian. He said he thinks animals shouldn’t have to die for “something as frivolous as a cheeseburger,” and thinks getting yourself a few good vegetarian and vegan cookbook should help people appreciate what you can get out of a veg lifestyle.

Apparently, he’s pretty convincing. He’s gotten both his grandfather and father, who grew up on a dairy farm, to start drinking soymilk for health reasons. Watch the rest of the video, get yourself some good veg cookbooks, and don’t forget to enter to win the free CD!

See more from The Faint at peta2.com.

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Pamela Anderson stopped by one of Canada’s Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants to sample their new faux chicken vegetarian sandwich. The veggie chicken, which some say technically isn’t vegan because it’s fried in the same oil with the real chicks, was created in response to much pressure by celebrities and other folk for KFC to clean up its act and provide better environments for their chickens.

If you’re going to be visiting Canada before the end of September, you should take advantage of this buy 1 get one free coupon. We’re still waiting for a fake chicken in the U.S., though. Pam had this to say about her home country’s actions:

“It’s very Canadian of them. Very forward thinking. I’m very proud Canada KFC was the first to do it. Hopefully everyone else follows suit.”

For more pics of Pam’s KFC experience, go here.

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