Vegetarian Star

Everyone’s favorite vegan girl, Alicia Silverstone, recently sat down with Health magazine where she discussed her upcoming vegan diet book, A Kind Diet, as well as her vegan lifestyle in general.

Here are a few excerpts:

On The Kind Diet Book:
“I’m excited about presenting something that can make you feel amazing and look your best. Once you’re informed, then you can be really gentle and kind to yourself, by giving yourself all the gifts life has to offer—like mental clarity and vitality—all while making the planet better”

The Role A Vegan Diet Played in her weightloss:
“Diet first, exercise second. Exercise is fantastic, and when I need to be a certain way quickly, I amp up my exercise by walking the dogs and doing yoga.”

How The Right Foods Make You “Juicy”:
You can hear your needs and desires more clearly. You’re just more juicy—there’s just this lightness that happens.

Read the entire interview at living.health.com.

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Ah, the changing of the seasons.

Colored falling leaves, brisk temperatures, and a good excuse to buy a new leather-free handbag!

Vegetarian fashion designer Stella McCartney has a few goodies coming our for the fall, including the four featured here.

Starting from the top left are the Piercing Convert Shoulder Bag, The Piercing Tote, and The Appaloosa Shoulder Tote, and The Piercing Ruffel Satchel.

Stella’s bags are never at bargain prices (the ones featured above are in the $1,000 range), but she has her niche of fashion savvy fans willing to pay the price so animals don’t have too.

All of the above bags can be ordered through Bergdorf Goodman.

If you have the pocket book size for it, you should consider patronizing them, since they have their share of leather goods (Prada) on the site as well.

How else are we to encourage these guys to stock up on more hideless accessories?

via splendicity.com

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Maxim cover girl hottie Geneva Cruz has stripped down to her bones.

But she still has all her meat and her “parts” are labeled for the discerning viewer to decide which piece they’d like of her-breasts, shoulder, loin, etc.

It’s all meant to mimic a butcher’s diagram of animal parts in an upcoming PETA vegetarian ad, “All Animals Have The Same Parts.”

“I’d just like to say that I’m not doing this for vanity,” Geneva told abs-cbnnews.com. “I don’t do this to look sexy, although you can look sexy. The good thing about what I’m doing now is I think that a lot of people are getting really influenced, and they just want to know how to start [becoming vegetarian]. I always tell them to go to PETA.org and check it out. You can start little by little.”

Wow.

Even if you’re a vegetarian, you must admit, Geneva looks delicious!

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If you’ve been following the Obama Health Care Reform talks, you know people are definitely forming opinions on every side.

Should the United States offer health care for everyone like Canada or European countries? Or is this headed for a system where Americans no longer have choice about their medical decisions.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey recently wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal where he suggested the best way to combat illness-and fix the health care problem-is through a plant based diet.

“Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.”

“Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.”

Read the rest of John’s article at wjs.com.

via huffingtonpost.com

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Chrissie Hynde and her Pretender crew was originally scheduled to perform at the Minneapolis Zoo.

However, that show was canceled and the concert promoter cited numerous reasons for doing so such as crowd size and zoo curfew.

Now, Chrissie’s getting the chance to talk about how she really felt about the zoo show.

Psst. We think the cancellation had a little more to do with Chrissie’s values.

After asking people at PETA to research the zoo thoroughly, Chrissie learned some of the animals are eventually sold for slaughter.

Uncool. Very uncool.

From popmatters.com:

“That’s how I decided not to play there. I thought it would disturb the animals anyway. As zoos go, they have some really good policies. But I’m not zoo-friendly myself. I actually had people calling and complaining about it being at the zoo before I knew it was at a zoo. It wasn’t just me.”

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Fred Mascherino, ex Taking Back Sunday guitarist and singer recently spoke with phillyist.com about how he gets his grub on while touring.

Apparently, there are a few places that probably know Fred by name as they’re on his radar when he’s in the cities.

“…I’ve spent more time on the road than at home the last several years, I’ve come up with my little… I know what state I’m in and where there is to eat there. In Baltimore there’s the Paper Moon Diner. In Boston there’s Grasshopper and there’s this vegetarian hot dog joint I always go to. In Austin, Texas, there’s a Thai place I love. So I get to know these places; I’m out [on the road] so much that I kind of memorize all these places that I like to eat”

Fred’s little black book of veggie restaurants seems to cover a lot of ground.

Sounds as if this guy’s never without a dinner date.

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Vegetarian Queen rocker Brian May recently took the opportunity to give animal rights a promo on his website.

The guitarist praised The World Society of the Protection of Animals (WSPA) Animals Matter To Me campaign.

“Animals Matter To Me represents the biggest ever global animal welfare initiative, linking the entire animal welfare movement with ONE STRATEGIC GOAL: global recognition that animals are sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and suffering,” writes May.

The goal of “Animals Matter To Me” is to get 10 million signatures to be handed to government officials around the world, urging for a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare at the United Nations.

Hey, if you can play guitar in a band that spent more weeks on the UK album charts than the Beatles or Elvis Presley, helping to round up 10 million signatures should be no problem!

via Ecorazzi.com

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Michael Vick has blogged at globalgrind.com, which is, ironically, a website started by vegan Russell Simmons.

In his post, Vick claims the one thing that made him remorseful for his role in dog fighting was meeting dozens of animal lovers and activists.

“Sitting in a prison cell didn’t make me feel remorse. It was meeting so many animal lovers, speaking with them and looking them in their eyes. Staring at them. Looking so deep into their eyes that I began to feel their pain. Allowing that pain to enter into my body is when I started to understand how bad it really was. I have been trying hard to connect with people who feel this pain,because for my whole life I was disconnected from the suffering of animals. And you might say, “come on Mike, how could you do those things to those dogs?” And you’re right…I ask myself those questions every day. What kind of person does this? How does a human-being treat dogs or any animal with such pain and cruelty? And the hard part for me is the answer to these questions. Because the answer is ME. And I am trying so hard right now to become a better person, because who I was, I am ashamed of.”

What do you think? Is Vick legit? Or are these fake feelings of empathy in a well pulled publicity stunt?

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