Vegetarian Star

The Hard Rock Calling Festival in Hyde Park in London is set for June 25-27, with big acts lined up like Pearl Jam, Ben Harper and Paul McCartney.

One of the first waitresses for the first Hard Rock Cafe in London will be happy to see McCartney in person again.

Rita Gulligan, who now does extensive PR work for the company, revealed to The Daily Star that the catering staff for the festival will be doing a special vegetarian meal for him and that veggie burgers from the Linda McCartney vegetarian food line were first launched at the Hard Rock Cafe, adding “they were top sellers.”

Although the menus at Hard Rock Cafes nationwide may vary, many offer a veggie burger topped with items like zucchini, squash and salsa.

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Kate Hudson was spotted grabbing a bite to eat at New York City’s Angelica Kitchen after filming on the set of Something Borrowed.

The vegan restaurant, like many well known eating spots, has a cookbook for those that can’t make to the Big Apple or prefer it DIY.

Not only does The Angelica Home Kitchen contain dozens of recipes for dishes like 3 bean chili with seitan and pumpkin pate, author Leslie McEachern also discusses the economical, social and ecological impact of our food choices.

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Mike Tyson‘s interview with the YES Network’s Center Stage airs tomorrow night.

Previous gossip has already revealed Tyson’s announcement that he’s vegan, and here’s a little more explanation from the interview preview.

“I’m a vegan. I don’t eat anything. I’m starving myself, but in order to live I have to die. I feel awesome, and it’s scary.”

Vegans might at first get upset that Tyson’s comment is saying a vegan diet means not eating anything that taste good or it means you’re hungry all the time, but it’s important to note Tyson says he does feel “awesome.”

Plus, he may be on a temporary very restrictive diet until he resolves some health issues, hence the “in order to live,” statement.

Although animal rights activists have criticized his Animal Planet show about pigeon racing, Take On Tyson, it was his love for his possessions that drew him to fighting to begin with.

“I come from this really macho area, so they take my money, take my pigeons, and one day a friend of mine said, “fight back.” And I fought. I had a high-pitched voice, I was really obesely overweight, and so I would never go to school. But, this guy: took one of my pigeons, and my friend said “fight him.” I fought him, and I don’t know, I guess I beat him up and stuff.”

Lesson learned: Don’t ever mess with man’s pigeons! That guy’s lucky he kept his ear.

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The Simpsons In The Classroom

The Simpsons have made numerous pop culture contributions since the cartoon debuted in the late 80s, but who would have thought the FOX series would make academic impact as well.

“The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield” by Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay, is a look at Springfield’s favorite family through the eyes of a PhD and a Master’s in American Literature, giving suggested mind exploratory exercises such as writing an essay on whether or not the show is respectful of different religions.

Dr. Waltonen told The Sacramento Bee her favorite episode is “Lisa The Vegetarian” partly because Lisa doesn’t go back to eating meat.

“It’s an episode where a character changes, and the change stays. In a lot of sitcoms you don’t actually have things move, but Lisa has remained a vegetarian. And the two-minute “meat industry” (skit) in that episode – “Meat and You: Partners in Freedom” – are the funniest that have ever been on television.”

A clip from “Meat and You: Partners in Freedom”, can be seen after the break.

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Credit: UNICEF

Vegetarian Lauren Bush has recently launched another set of bags in her FEED Projects series, the FEED Guatemala bags, to help the United National Children’s Fund, UNICEF.

The “FEED Guatemala 1” and “FEED Guatemala 3” bags will provide daily nutrient powder for 1 or 3 children, respectively, in Guatemala for one year.

According to the Lord and Taylor website featuring the items, nearly 23% of children over three months and under 5 years suffer from some kind of malnutrition and almost half of children suffered from chronic malnutrition in 2006.

If the world refrained from eating meat, or at least ate less meat, that number could be a lot lower.

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Justin Bieber has been called out on Twitter for messing around with fast food.

After the “U Smile” singer wrote, “Fast food always hits the spot,” in a recent update, Katy Perry responded on her Twitter account with, “Eat your spinach young man! -adopted mother.”

Bieber isn’t alone in his lunch choices. Using data from Project EAT (Eating Among Teens), Researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health have found that over 20% of teenagers consume food fast more than three times a week!

Perry doesn’t have much room to talk, as she once professed her love for the double-double burger at In-N-Out. Given his popularity and influence, Bieber should stop hitting the spot with large fries and cheeseburgers. Or at least stop Tweeting about it.

And do what the elder says, even if the elder doesn’t do it.

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Colbie Caillat can now share kisses with her guitarist Justin Kawika Young while traveling on the road.

According to Hollywoodlife, the two are now an official item and the singer admits her third album is pretty much a “I’m in love with Young” tribute.

“I have like 15 songs — they’re all pretty much about him — the falling in love stage and anything about him,” Caillat said.

That’s nice.

Even more interesting, though, is that Young is an aspiring vegetarian who may at least partly want to do so because of environment reasons.

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They say you can tell a lot from an NBA player by the contents of his locker.

That’s why we’re only getting positive vibes from Phoenix Suns’ Amar’e Stoudemire, who has a copy of the book, Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina, on the shelf.

Becoming Vegan is a one stop vegan guide for everything meat, fish, dairy and egg-free, including best sources of calcium and protein, good fats, vegan eating for infants and children, pregnancy and breast feeding.

Stoudemire, who recently spoke about his 4 day vegan fast and has also posed in an anti-fur ad for PETA, probably paid close attention to the section on maintaining top performance as a vegan athlete.

Written by two dietitians, one of the co-authors, Brenda Davis, has served as the chair of the American Dietetic Association’s Vegetarian Nutrition Practice Group.

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