Vegetarian Star

Olivia Munn recorded an interview with PETA to accompany the PSA she did recently where she posed nude to protest circuses.

Munn shared what she thinks are the three best ways for animal lovers to get active.

“One, stop going to the circus. Don’t buy real fur. Don’t buy a dog. Go and rescue a dog.”

Sounds pretty simple.

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Dirt! The Movie, a film about the health of the Earth’s soil, is being screened across the country.

Dirt! was shown on PBS this week, and features interviews with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement, mycologist Paul Stamens, urban farmers and female prisoners in Riker’s Island who are gardening behind bars.

What’s so important about getting dirty?

For vegetarians, the quality of our plant food depends on it.

According to the Huffington Post, it takes approximately 100 years just to create 1 inch of topsoil and the U.S. is letting its topsoil erode 10-17 times faster than it can be replaced.

Dirt! maintains that the first 6-8 inches of soil are crucial for maintaining life on the planet, and that tiny layer is being threatened by human mistakes like bad agricultural practices and pollution.

To find a screening of Dirt! new you, visit the film’s website and enter your zip code.

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People Pets is reporting the serial pet owner Paris Hilton has just announced on Twitter she has new pug puppy.

The heiress wrote, “What do you all think of my new Pug Puppy? He is so adorable and has such the cutest personality! Love him!”

Hilton has a history of gaining animal activists attention for her four legged additions, including the addition of a pig last fall.

Several years ago when she told Ellen DeGeneres she had 17 dogs, the LA police knocked on her dog.

California law states that only breeders are allowed to have more than 3 dogs per address.

But it turned out, none of the dogs were really living with her, instead they were in the care of her handlers.

Who really owns these pooches, anyway?

Hopefully, Paris’ people are giving the dogs just as much love, attention, and Twitter space as she would herself.

And fingers crossed she got the pug from a shelter instead of a breeder.

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Meatloaf is known to turn down meat, something which helped him shed a lot of weight.

The Daily Record is reporting the slimmer vegetarian often enjoys curry at his favorite Indian restaurant.

Curry, a dish made of spicy vegetables over rice, can differ depending on which region of Asia or India it originates from, according to WiseGeek.

Punjab curry, for example, involves wheat instead of rice while Malai uses coconut milk.

Regardless of origin, most curry dishes have the common ingredient of turmeric, which give curries their yellow colors, and many incorporate the spices of ginger, garlic, chillies, pepper, cumin and and coriander.

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Zoe Saldana, who is currently starring in the film The Losers, offered her mother’s recipe for Moro de Guandules (rice with pigeon peas) as part of the Mother’s Day special in In Style magazine.

It’s always nice to take a recipe that calls for meat ingredients and easily make substitutions, and that’s exactly what you can do with this recipe by swapping the chicken bouillon for vegetable.

Rapunzel makes a wonderful vegan version with or without added sea salt.

Look for the recipe in the May issue of In Style, which goes on sale this Friday or jump here to get started now.

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Heather Mills was the winner of Whitney Houston tickets after calling in during a radio contest.

According to The Mirror, when the DJ wanted to confirm if she was indeed “the” Heather Mills, he asked her if she owned V Bites, the vegan restaurant Heather opened last year in Brighton.

“Yes,” Heather replied. “Come down for a cupcake.”

Heather’s spokesperson said, “Heather entered the competition to win the tickets for an 82-year-old mother of a friend. Her friend is a massive Whitney fan and as it appears that the event is totally sold out this would be a good opportunity to really cheer her up.”

Tickets to a concert and vegan desserts.

Can a night get any better?

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PETA Kentucky Derby Ad

As expected, no billboard company in Louisville is willing to let animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals place a poster describing how many horses have died since Eight Bells did in 2008 from racing.

Maybe they should start campaigning for next year. It must be a factor of space, obviously.

PETA said that, on average, three horses break down on the race track every day and although the industry has made improvements, like banning steroids from the tracks where the Triple Crown races are run, officials resort to using drugs that mask the animal’s pain so it can still race when it should be in recovery.

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PepsiCo’s CEO Indra Nooyi is vegetarian.

So is the fact that she runs a company known for its sugar high and salty good times an oxymoron?

Nooyi told CNN’s Money that ultimately consumers have the responsibility to know when enough is enough and if they all exercised, obesity wouldn’t exist.

“If I look at our portfolio, I think you can classify them into three groups: “fun-for-you foods” like Pepsi, Doritos, Lays, and Mountain Dew, “better-for-you” products like Diet Pepsi, PepsiMax, Baked Lays, Sobi Life Water, Propel, all of these products, and “good-for-you” products like Quaker, Tropicana, Naked Juice, Gatorade,” Nooyi said.

So guess the idea is lay off the fun-for-you foods and devour the good-for-you ones.

Now, if only the vending machines would stock more oatmeal and Naked Juice.

Still, you have to give PepsiCo credit for making a huge change to its products seven years ago without adding the costs to consumers when it banned all trans fat.

Maybe in a few years we’ll see sodas sweetened with the less addictive cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.

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