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Morrissey has sparked controversy again, this time being accused of making racially inappropriate statements describing Chinese treatment of animals in circuses and zoos.

During an interview with Simon Armitage, Morrissey said, “Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.”

A spokesperson for Love Music Hate Racism called Morrissey’s statements “just crude racism” and wants the singer to rescind his comments.

“When you start using language like ‘subspecies’, you are entering into dark and murky water,” Martin Smith from Love Music said.

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Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey recently told USA Today that the store will be unveiling a new, private label line next year that famous vegan firefighter and author Rip Esselstyn would approve of.

“We’ll introduce a private-label line in 2011 based on the healthy eating book The Engine 2 Diet,” Mackey said. “We’ve licensed that brand. It’s vegan (no animal fats) with no canola or safflower oils, and low in sugar and salt.”

The line offers products similar to what Mackey eats, but he insists that has nothing to do with its creation.

“Though that is the way I live, it is not my personal lifestyle driving this. We think it will be a good product category for the company.”

Looks like vegs will be ringing in the New Year with another option in good food.

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Vegetarian model Christie Brinkley has been honored with the 2nd Annual HBA Positively Beautiful Award from HBA Global Expo for her support of Smile Train. Smile Train restores smiles on children’s faces around the world by repairing cleft lips and cleft palates, oral deformity conditions that occur early in development in the uterus.

Clefts are common in developing countries and often interfere with speaking and eating abilities, thus causing stress in both public and private lives of the children affected. Treatments for clefts from surgery to speech experts help give these individuals a beautiful smile on the outside and confidence  inside.

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Lincoln O’Barry is the son of ex dolphin trainer turned activist Ric O’Barry, who was a major player in the movie The Cove. On Animal Planet’s Blood Dolphins, Ric returns to where The Cove was filmed in Japan and brings along his son Lincoln as the work side by side to expose dolphin slaughter.

Lincoln spoke to The Futon Critic on his like father like son passion for educating the world on marine conservation. It’s not a lie to say the dolphin industry isn’t linked with strong tradition in Japan. Perhaps that’s why there was so much opposition to The Cove finally getting it’s premiere in the country. Lincoln explains that the first three episodes of Blood Dolphins cover some of those traditions.

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Paul Vasquez, otherwise known as the “Double Rainbow” guy in the Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery commercial told Fast Company he’s currently working with an agent to star in a TV film pilot about his life living in the wilderness.

Vasquez, who further complicates the aliases after saying he likes to be called “bear,” said the pilot will highlight his life in martial arts, vegan eating, losing weight, building his home using alternative materials, using alternative energy, and organic farming.

Interestingly, Vasquez says he’s been living on about $5,000 a year for the past few years. He hasn’t made big bucks off the Live Photo Gallery commercial yet. Guess  you can say he’s still waiting for the pot of gold at the end of the double rainbow. If he’s eaten vegan during all these years, it would be great to have him demonstrate cheap, natural animal-free eating on the pilot as more questions burn the mind on how he survives.

Does he grow his own? Follow the guide for How To Eat Vegan On The Cheap Religiously?

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The Dalai Lama has written a statement posted on the Humane Society International’s website, urging consumers to purchase cage-free eggs from producers that allow hens to live in more natural conditions.

“The abuse we inflict on hens has always been particularly disturbing to me and I have always been particularly concerned toward how these animals are treated in industrial food production. I am troubled to learn about the practice of confining egg laying hens in tiny cages. In these cages, birds cannot engage in their natural behaviours, such as spreading their wings, laying eggs in a nesting area, perching, scratching at the ground, even standing on a solid surface. Each hen has less space to live than the very sheet of paper I have written this letter on.”

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“Given what we’ve known for generations now about the population numbers and general state of whales and other marine mammals, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to continue to allow whaling.”

–Alexandra Cousteau, environmentalist, daughter of oceanographer Philippe Cousteau and granddaughter of French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, on her whaling stance to This Dish Is Vegetarian in an exclusive interview.

If there’s anything we know about whales, it’s that their populations are declining everywhere.  The number of Antarctic whales, for example, is less than 10 percent of what is was before whaling began. Eastern Grey Whales were once three to five times more numerous in the Pacific Ocean than they are today. And even the minke whale, who scientists once thought were robust and sustainable with hundreds of thousands in numbers, have dropped from about 43,000 to 15,000 based on a recent count in Iceland waters.

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities today.

• Fearne Cotton (29)

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