Vegetarian Star

Lea Michele as Rachel Berry in "Glee"

Glee is bringing Lea Michele‘s real life characteristics into her Rachel Berry character.

On a recent episode, Rachel is lured into the parking lot by Jesse, and she experiences an onslaught of chicken fetuses to her face, or at least that’s what some chick from rival singing club Vocal Adrenaline says:

“I hear you’re a vegan, Berry. The souls of those poor egg fetuses are all on your conscience now.”

Actually, most eggs from the supermaket are the unfertilized products of a chicken’s reproductive cycle, so Miss Vocal Adrenaline needs to study her biology more between after school practices.

Unless she got them from a free-range farm where the chick and the rooster actually engaged in Hanky Panky. In that case, then, yeah, those poor would have been chickens. Free-range chickens good, killing potential chicks bad. Rachel Berry can’t win for losing.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Bonnie-Jill Laflin Thinks Tofu Scores A Slam Dunk
• Emily Deschanel Is Walk For Animals 2011 Spokesperson (Video)
• Linda McCartney Food Range Adds Four New Products
• Meatless Mouthful–Meagan Duhamel Scores Gold Medal With Diet
• Kristin Bauer Takes A Bite Into European Union Animal Tested Cosmetics

Daniel Negreanu is making veggie converts with his barbecue seitan.

On Twitter, the champion poker player bragged that even a meat loving Texan gave the wheat meat the thumbs up.

“Earlier @texdolly tasted a piece of my Seitan. You know it’s gotta be alright when a BBQ eatin’ Texan says he likes it. Kudos @dnassistant.”

This led to a response from someone who Tweeted, “@realkidpoker stop trying to convert people!” to which Negreanu replied, “@RaSZi ya cause Doyle is totally going Vegan now, right.”

One highly tasty and addictive way to barbecue seitan is to use Dr. Pepper or other similar cola in the sauce (e.g. non high fructose corn syrup soda like Hansen’s). This recipe for Dr. Pepper Barbecue Seitan has you creating seitan from scratch using vital wheat gluten flour, ketchup, hot sauce and soda for the sauce and a spoonful of peanut butter.

Don’t ask why the PB is there, just taste the results and appreciate its place!

Possibly Related Posts:

• Bonnie-Jill Laflin Thinks Tofu Scores A Slam Dunk
• Linda McCartney Food Range Adds Four New Products
• Meatless Mouthful–Meagan Duhamel Scores Gold Medal With Diet
• Dr. Oz Welcomes “Complete Idiot’s Guide To Plant-Based Nutrition” Author
• Rory Freedman To Emcee LA Premiere Of “Vegucated”

You’ve heard what’s on Gene Baur‘s and Farm Sanctuary’s agenda for this month in the realm of animal rights.

Now, the Los Angeles Times talks to Ingrid Newkirk to see what PETA’s plans are in their May in Animal News feature.

Since you’re already a veggie or at least reducing your meat intake, you won’t have to worry about the dancer rubber stopping you on the street with a vegetarian starter kit.

We don’t think there will be vegan, edible condoms in the kit either. Sorry.

When asked what PETA would be up to in June, Newkirk replied:

“A million projects, from promoting spaying and neutering through demonstrations featuring dancing condoms to distributing our free vegetarian/vegan starter kits. But we’ll also definitely be working hard to curb attendance at SeaWorld and at [Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's] shows. Indeed, we’ll continue to expose Ringling by circulating video footage of elephants being routinely beaten as well as photos of the cruel methods that Ringling uses to train baby elephants.”

Possibly Related Posts:

• Bonnie-Jill Laflin Thinks Tofu Scores A Slam Dunk
• Emily Deschanel Is Walk For Animals 2011 Spokesperson (Video)
• Linda McCartney Food Range Adds Four New Products
• Meatless Mouthful–Meagan Duhamel Scores Gold Medal With Diet
• Dr. Oz Welcomes “Complete Idiot’s Guide To Plant-Based Nutrition” Author

Performing artist Marina Abramovic recently gave one of her most grueling exhibits, although she did nothing but sit in a chair all day–for over a month!

Abramovic took part in “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present” exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art every day the museum was open for the exhibit, a performance she described to the Wall Street Journal as leaving her “completely destroyed.”

To prepare herself for the routine, Abramovic said she went vegetarian and drank a lot of water.

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Russell Simmons Discusses Argyleculture Clothing Line
• Stella McCartney Adds Sunglasses To 2012 Spring/Summer Collection
• Paul McCartney Nancy Shevell Wedding Included Vegan Feast
• Stella McCartney Discusses Vegetarian Upbringing
• Kesha Designing Faux Fur Collection

Moby is so into tacos and kale, he would eat the combination as his last meal on death row. In a week’s time, he made his way across the U.S. to enjoy tacos on both the east and west coast. The vegan musician shares his food adventures in Grub Street New York‘s regular feature where notables divulge every detail of what they’ve eaten in the past week.

New York city drew him to Caravan of Dreams for their seitan tacos. “They have these seitan taquitos, which are tiny little mini-tacos with seitan, pineapple, guacamole, and salsa,” Moby said. “They’re spectacular. It comes with a side of sautéed kale and garlic.”

By the middle of the week, he made his way to Real Food Daily in California to enjoy “Taco the Town,” another seitan based taco dish with black beans, spanish rice, guacamole and pico de gallo.

Read more at Grubstreet.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Bonnie-Jill Laflin Thinks Tofu Scores A Slam Dunk
• Linda McCartney Food Range Adds Four New Products
• Meatless Mouthful–Meagan Duhamel Scores Gold Medal With Diet
• Dr. Oz Welcomes “Complete Idiot’s Guide To Plant-Based Nutrition” Author
• Rory Freedman To Emcee LA Premiere Of “Vegucated”

Brooke Shields is not making the list of favorite models this week or this year for that matter. It’s bad enough she became a meat eater again after 16 years of being vegetarian, but now she’s getting excited about designing her own custom made fur coat. Earlier this month, she visited Kopenhagen Studio, a creative fur workshop in Kopenhagen to pick the mink hide of her choice.

“Wearing fur may be associated with something grandmotherish. Something you wear when you visit the opera, or if you are a rock star and wears it inside out. But I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur.”

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Emily Deschanel Is Walk For Animals 2011 Spokesperson (Video)
• Kristin Bauer Takes A Bite Into European Union Animal Tested Cosmetics
• Kate Bush Ensures Fans New Album Photo Shoot Was Faux Fur
• Bar Refaeli Got A Mouthful Of Fur Lies At Bel Air Photo Shoot
• Christina Applegate Baby Food Rumor

The Los Angeles Times has featured five questions with Farm Sanctuary’s co-founder and president Gene Baur on the organization’s goals and his personal motivation for the work he does to protect animals.

Baur says June, like any month, will be a busy one at Farm Sanctuary, as he and other representatives will continue their work with the case against the Ohio dairy worker charged with 12 counts of animal abuse to cows as well as talking to officials in Washington about the state of school food.

“Farm Sanctuary will remain involved with the Conklin dairy case and initiative in Ohio, and our farm visitor programs will continue. We’ll also be reaching out to officials in Washington, D.C., and urging them to support policies to prevent animal cruelty and promote a healthier, plant-based food production system. Among the federal legislation we are supporting is the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (H.R. 4733) and the Healthy School Meals Act (H.R. 4870).”

For more, visit the Los Angeles Times.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Emily Deschanel Is Walk For Animals 2011 Spokesperson (Video)
• Ellen DeGeneres Is Farm Sanctuary Adopt-A-Turkey Spokesperson
• Kesha Asks McDonald’s To Switch To More Humane Slaughter Practices
• Christian Serratos Dices Up Alternatives To Classroom Dissection (Video)
• Jonathan Safran Foer Interview With AV Club

Himala Salt

Martha Stewart recently featured Himala Salt from Sustainable Sourcing on The Martha Stewart Show, where she commended the Himalayan salt and organic peppercorns from the company.

The salt, available in fine grain, coarse grain, chunks, cubes, bricks and special gift packaging, has no added Iodine to it, but naturally trace amounts are preserved.

Sustainable Sourcing products, founded by Melissa Kushi, are created in an organic, wind powered facility that uses the greenest, natural chemicals to cleanse the facility–Dr. Bronner’s Certified Organic Gluten-Free Soap and a rinse of a hot water solution with Eden Foods’ Certified Organic Apple Cider Vinegar.

Sustainable Sourcing packages in eco friendly materials that are either 100% recyclable, refillable and reusable. In addition, 5% of profits go to environment organizations.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Bonnie-Jill Laflin Thinks Tofu Scores A Slam Dunk
• Linda McCartney Food Range Adds Four New Products
• Meatless Mouthful–Meagan Duhamel Scores Gold Medal With Diet
• Dr. Oz Welcomes “Complete Idiot’s Guide To Plant-Based Nutrition” Author
• Rory Freedman To Emcee LA Premiere Of “Vegucated”