Vegetarian Star

Female First has written an article on the “Things You Didn’t Know” about Miley Cyrus.

Ok, so after you admit you don’t care to know, one of the “secrets” is that Miley is “vegetarian, doesn’t eat anything green and her favourite colours are green, pink and purple.”

Green. Of course. That’s why she won’t eat anything that color.

Maybe FF has the latest update, cause last time we checked, Miley said she had tried being vegetarian, but couldn’t get enough of the Double Doubles and fries.

Maybe the recent change is from playing her vegetarian character, Ronnie, in The Last Song.

Then again, maybe it was that Hannah Montana personality that didn’t eat meat.

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Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, will make an appearance at Farm Sanctuary’s California Country Hoe Down in May, a day filled with vegan food and workshops on health and the environment.

According to a press release from the group, Biz turned vegan 10 years ago after a visit to the New York sanctuary, which is home to cows, pigs, goats and other formerly abused and abandoned farm animals.

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Kim Barnouin, co-author of Skinny Bitch and founder of Healthybitchdaily.com, is one of the scheduled speakers at the You Are What You Eat event at the Brea Community Center in Brea, California on May 15 from 10AM to 4PM.

The event will feature over 50 vendors in natural foods, eco home, eco beauty, eco baby and other integrative medicine and wellness products.

There will also be live demonstrations of organic food preparation and giveaways.

Admission is $10 and children under 12 get in free.

For more information about You Are What You Eat, visit here.

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Last week’s 10 Things I Hate About You featured Kat Stratford winning one for the team by getting her school to offer Meatless Mondays.

However, the student council member she teamed up with to get it passed didn’t tell her he was going to set up a pepperoni pizza stand on the same day declaring war on the vegetarian movement.

Ah, politics.

There is real progress happening in schools, however, to make vegetarian meals the norm, and the South Florida Miami-Dade school district has offered these for a long time.

Recently, the district added three new options to its menu: faux chicken nuggets, veggie burgers and hummus platters.

And no, kids aren’t pitching tents on the football field offering cold cuts to counteract this.

“We’re offering these items on the menu, and not seeing trays and trays go into the garbage can,” said Penny Parham to the Miami Herald, who oversees food services in the district.

If passed, the Healthy School Meals Act, H.R. 4870, introduced by representative Jared Polis, will offer school districts across the nation to test the introduction of vegetarian foods and non dairy beverages into their menus over the next couple of years.

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Missy Chase Lapine Jerry Seinfeld. Photo: New York Daily News

The saga continues in the case of The Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine and Jerry Seinfeld, the New York Daily News reports.

Lapine sued Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica Seinfeld, accusing her of plagiarism, saying Seinfeld’s book, Deceptively Delicious, also about incorporating vegetables in meals that taste good, was a rip off.

After a federal judge said, “No,” Lapine took the case to a Second Circuit Court of Appeal, and argued that a jury should decide if pureed carrots are unique.

The Appellate court has yet to issue a ruling.

When it comes to cookbooks, plagiarism and copyright issues are shady, because recipes generally aren’t copyrightable (although it’s best to always say where you got it or developed it from).

The U.S. Copyright office has this to say about recipes:

“Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.”

Green beans, onions and carrots together as a dish probably isn’t copyrightable.

The song you wrote to put your kids in a trance to eat them that you printed along with the recipe in the cookbook probably is.

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Alyssa Milano is a real vegetarian, but her co-star Josh Larson‘s character, Shawn, tried to fake being one to pick up a girl on a recent episode of Romantically Challenged.

Who knew vegetarian pick up lines existed?

Shawn was supposed to pick Perry up from the dentist, but instead he meets a chick and pretends to be the handsome meatless chap who knows how to solve the water crisis in India.

Perry is left dialing for a cab, talking from the one side of his mouth that’s operable.

If you’re going to use vegetarian points to snag the girl, at least arm yourself with some good facts about meat, plant crops and water, courtesy of Greenpeace.

• “It can take up to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does to produce protein from plants. According to author John Robbins in his book The Food Revolution, you could save more water by not eating a pound of California beef than you could by not showering for an entire year.”
• “Livestock operations generate roughly 130 times as much bodily waste as the entire human population of the United States, which makes its way into the environment without going through the sewage treatment systems found in our cities and towns. This untreated waste pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.”

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Thu Tran "Food Party"

Thu Tran is the host of the Independent Film Channel’s Food Party, a cooking show filmed on a cardboard set featuring gourmet meals and puppet guests that arrive to eat them.

Different.

Interesting.

A little freaky.

Anyway, we’d totally show up to eat with the puppets if Thu was cooking corn the way she likes it.

Although admitting to Zap2it she does like meat, Thu loves taking frozen corn and adding several spices to it.

“Sometimes I snack on that cold, but I used to really like to microwave it with three pats of butter and then add cayenne pepper and garlic powder and sugar, and eat that. It’s really good.”

That sounds incredibly delicious, and even the vegans can whip out their Earth Balance and have a good time with this.

The season 2 premiere of Food Party airs tonight at 10PM on the Independent Film Channel.

Take a look at a clip from last year’s show, featuring “Yolk-Oh O No!” having egg issues.

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Teany

Teany, the tea and vegan cafe created and previously owned by vegan rocker Moby, is rumored to be opening this week.

Village Voice stopped by to find cakes in the display cases and chairs scattered throughout the New York City restaurant.

Teany was damaged by an electrical fire last year.

Moby once remarked that Teany was so great because both meat eaters and vegans were just as excited about the offerings.

Did you frequent Teany and do you agree?

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