Vegetarian Star

Jane Velez-Mitchell has used her position as a well known journalist on HLN to spotlight animal issues on several occasions.

Recently Jane and Nancy Grace had the opportunity to interview Jack Hanna, host of Jack Hanna Into The Wild–along with some of his animal friends.

After recounting a story about a dog who helped solve a crime by urinating on a tire, Jane discussed the pigs she met at a farm animal rescue center.

Some highlights from the transcript:

GRACE: You`ve had encounters with pigs? Is there anything you need to share with us?

(LAUGHTER)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, actually, because I`m an animal activist and I go to rescue organizations…

GRACE: Oh, there she goes! I was wondering how long it would take! Go ahead, Miss PETA!

(LAUGHTER)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, I go to a group, like Animal Acres here in Los Angeles, where they rescue farm animals that have been abused and they allow them to live the way animals should live. Pigs are incredibly intelligent animals, as intelligent as dogs. They have an incredible sense of smell. As you`ve just been seeing there, they are sentient creatures with feelings. They are being used by some in some test cases to sniff out drugs and as…

GRACE: Oh, drug pigs!

Are narcotic pigs the future of the police department in your hometown?

Learn what vegetarian animal Hanna introduced later on the show from the full transcript.

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Kim Kardashian has announced she’d like to improve her diet in 2010.

“Just to spend a little bit more time with my family and my friends and to really kick it up in the workout department and to try to eat better, Kim told US Magazine of her New Year’s resolution.”I cannot get it together with eating. I eat way too many Oreos.”

Hopefully, she’s going in the direction of sis Chloe and trying to eat more vegetarian.

But it’s hard to imagine that happening while she’s promoting that darn Carl Jr’s chicken salad.

What happened to the tofu, veggie burgers and quinoa Kim gobbled up while filming her fitness DVD series?

Will they make a comeback?

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Mya went vegetarian to shape up for her Dancing With the Stars role this past season and lost 11 pounds while doing so.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t find the time to plan her meals to get enough protein and ended up going back to meat.

“My new year’s resolution was to be a vegetarian for six months out of this year,” said Mya, according to Us Magazine. “I did three months and stopped and then I’m almost done with my second three months commitment.”

Will Mya make the same promise to herself this year?

Will she go for the home run and do it for 365 days in 2010?

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The new Celebrity Big Brother House has been unveiled and residents like Coronation Street‘s Kym Marsh, Stephanie Beacham and MC Hammer will have the chance to cuddle up with some very animal unfriendly furnishings.

BBC News reports:

“Producers have opted for a gothic, hellish decor, based on Dante’s Inferno and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s notion that “Hell is other people”.

Hellish is a mild word to describe the living room area.

From looking at the photos, there are fur rugs and leather sofas.

Sure, there are other scary features like skulls on the pillows, but what could be creepier than lying against the hide of a previous living creature?

Makes you wanna get evicted.

Vegetarian Boy George was banned from the show due to his probation restrictions.

Too bad, because at least he could have cooked veg food for everyone to offset all that bad animal karma (kameleon).

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January 1st has arrived and that means the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine 21 Day Vegan Kickstart program has begun!

As mentioned before, there are several celebrities that offer tips for keeping up your resolution of going veg, like John Salley‘s advice on helping children make good food decisions.

“Adults influence kids’ eating habits. We have to improve kids’ eating habits—and re-educate adults about what is food and what is not food. People can have pizza and pastries without dairy products and eggs. They can have tofu mozzarella cheese or egg substitute and they should use agave in place of high-fructose corn syrup and refined whole sugar.”

Rory Freedman is also there to be the cheerleader in case you do cheat.

“If you slip up and get off track, forgive yourself. It’s okay to be imperfect and to make mistakes. Try to do better, that’s all.”

But with recipes like her Green Goddess pasta, it might be hard to even think about falling off track.

And Bob Harper wants you to examine what’s on your plate before asking why you feel tired and crummy every evening. And hopefully, put some of his black bean quinoa salad on there.

“When you pay attention to what you eat, it becomes easier to understand your relationship with food and how it affects your day-to-day life.”

For more celebrity nutrition tips, visit kickstart.pcrm.org.

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2009 was a year of memorable quotes, so says the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, which has compiled its list of great celebrity verbiage of the year.

There are some quotes, however, that are worth forgetting, like one made by chef Antony Worrall Thompson when he attacked Paul McCartney‘s Meat Free Monday campaign.

“I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.”

Ha, haaaaaa. Be sure to put him in the category of chefs you really love like Hezbollah vegan hating Anthony Bourdain.

Pamela Anderson wanted you to know she is now a Rembrandt.

“Yesterday, I was considered soft porn, but today I am art.”

Does that mean the art history students of the next century will be studying and critiquing the Lettuce Ladies ads?

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The Sims 3 allows players to create vegetarian Sims

PETA has awarded The Sims 3 by Electronic Art a Proggy Award for being the Most Animal Friendly Game of 2009.

The Proggy Award is short for “progress,” and is intended for PETA to recognize companies that display animal friendly themes in their products.

According to PETA, The Sims 3 can feature Sims who not only eat vegetarian, but become ill if served vegetarian food.

Wonder if these Sims can force their meat eating virtual friends to have a Quorn patty here and there?

“Rumor has it that game testers have reported that vegetarian Sims live longer and age more slowly than meat-eating Sims,” PETA continued. “Of course, that would jibe with studies showing that real-life vegans and vegetarians are less prone to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other life-threatening conditions.”

Do these Sims get better premiums on their health care coverage?

If not, it’s time to make changes for The Sims 4!

via gamasutra.com

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As a vegetarian, can you ever agree that some meat is ethical?

John Mackey made the decision to go vegetarian after discovering how some animals farmed for meat were treated.

“I became more conscious of what we were doing to livestock animals and how much those animals were being abused,” he said during a video interview posted on the Whole Foods blog.  “The summer of 2003, I read a dozen books or so on the way animals were being treated and I decided in good conscious I didn’t want to eat animals anymore.”

But Whole Foods still sells meat. Does this make Mackey a hypocrite?

“I find the death argument to not be a particularly good one because everything that’s alive dies. At the end of the day it’s the quality of life that you have prior from birth to death that really matters. Not whether you die in the end. Animals are going to die in the end and what matters to them whether the life they have from birth to death is a life that allows them to fulfill their animal potential.”

Mackey says the company has been developing an Animal Welfare 5 Step rating program, which will rate producers based on how they treat their livestock. Ideally, the producers with the highest rating will be the only ones to sell their product at Whole Foods.

Certainly a life full of free movement and fresh air beats being crammed in cages and being forced to reproduce or produce products like milk unnaturally.

Do you agree with Mackey?

Or should Whole Foods aim to stop selling meat entirely?

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