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Malia and Sasha Obama don’t always go for the green goodies, but according to Mrs. Obama, the closer the carrot, the better the V8. Or something along those lines.

She recently allowed the press into her White House Kitchen before a dinner to honor the nation’s governors where she praised local and sustainable foods, saying that if food is grown locally, “oftentimes it tastes really good, and when you’re dealing with kids, you want to get them to try that carrot.”

“If it tastes like a real carrot, and it’s really sweet, they’re going to think that it’s a piece of candy,” Michelle Obama said, according to the New York Times.

“So my kids are more inclined to try different vegetables if they are fresh and local and delicious.”

She hinted that one of her favorite dishes might be vegan-broccoli cream soup without the cream. 

Mrs. Obama frequently discussed the importance of healthy foods, including those grown locally, while on the campaign trail last year.

Source: New York Times

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Who doesn’t like looking at hot celebrity pictures? The fact that they’re vegan makes it even better.

The Insider is talking full advantage of this to increase their page views and has a featured picture gallery of vegan celebs, including the lovely Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple.

Check out Ellen DeGeneres, new mom Erykah Badu, and the ever famous hobo vegan rapper, Joaquin Phoenix, among others.

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 When a known (or even suspected) vegetarian takes a position of power, some meat eaters get a little testy. Just look at what happened when that poor Montana GOP candidate was suspected of eating Boca versus regular burgers.

Obama’s appointed regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein is a vegetarian and co-authored the book Animal Right: Current Debates and New Directions. Some groups are alleging he will try to outlaw meat eating and hunting.

While banning all activities that harm or kill animals, like hunting, may be a long shot (bad pun intended), Sunstein has expressed an interest in banning hunting unless it’s for food and thinks Americans should put animal suffering on the front burner. (But not the front burner for cooking. Another bad pun, indeed.)

He published a paper in 2002 titled The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer. Here are a few excerpts:

We should focus attention not only on the “enforcement gap,” but on the areas where current law offers little or no protection. In short, the law should impose further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and (above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering. It is easy to imagine a set of initiatives that would do a great deal here, and indeed European nations have moved in just this direction.

If we focus on suffering, as I believe that we should, it is not necessarily impermissible to kill animals and use them for food; but it is entirely impermissible to be indifferent to their interests while they are alive. So too for other animals in farms, even or perhaps especially if they are being used for the benefit of human beings. If sheep are going to be used to create clothing, their conditions must be conducive to their welfare. We might ban hunting altogether, at least if its sole purpose is human recreation. (Should animals be hunted and killed simply because people enjoy hunting and killing them? The issue might be different if hunting and killing could be justified as having important functions, such as control of populations or protection of human beings against animal violence.)

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Fashion Obsession:
Anything by Stella McCartney. I’m madly in love with her days of the week knickers.

Currently Craving:
Vegan pancakes from Real Food Daily in L.A., with soy butter and syrup.

—actress Ginnifer Goodwin, on her most recent obsessions, shared with InStyle Magazine. The He’s Just Not That Into You and Big Love actress told late night talk show host Conan O’Brien that being a vegan was like a “party in her body” everyday.

Good to know she’s wearing Stella McCartney’s cruelty-free clothing as well. Besides Real Food Daily, she has been known to pick up veg grub at Vegan Glory. 

Source: Famous Veggie

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“I think that’s funny. From personal experience, I eat plenty of stuff with soy and nothing’s happened. I know people who’ve taken testosterone and they’ve gotten gynecomastia from the extra testosterone. So if testosterone can make your body produce more estrogen, then wouldn’t eating something that supposedly raises estrogen levels also raise your testosterone? My body would want to level it out.”

—-Ultimate Fighter Mac Danzig, when asked in an interview by Men’s Fitness, “What do you think about the claims that soy protein is estrogenic and will make you grow boobs and cause your balls to fall off?”

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The White House chef is already spilling the beans on what the Obamas like to eat!

According to ETOnline, White House chief chef Cristeta Comerford said Michelle Obama can’t get enough of creamed spinach, but daughters Sasha and Malia aren’t as thrilled and don’t always like eating vegetables.

When referring to a green dish, Mrs. Obama will tell Comerford, “Sasha still didn’t like it … and sometimes [the] kids are like, ‘it’s green.'”

No, not even a weekly homework assignment of bringing vegetables to school is enough for Sasha to eat hers.

Comerford and other White House chefs are still working to please the Obama daughters’ palates.

Apparently, it’s going to take more effort than once thought to get more veggies for the children.

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Natalie Portman attended the Oscars ceremony looking ethical both inside and out.

The vegan actress wore a baby pink strapless dress, vegan shoes, and “ethical diamonds.”

Ethical or non-conflict diamonds, unlike “blood diamonds” aren’t mined in war zones where the profits go to fund violent activities against people during civil wars in Africa.

Although various certification programs exist to ensure diamonds are conflict-free, they aren’t foolproof and some have suggested that as much as 100 million US dollars worth of diamonds are traded illegally for arms each year.

Some companies, like Brilliant Earth, provide diamonds mined in conflict-free areas, such as Canada.

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities on February 24th.

• Steve Jobs (54)

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