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The Dome 54 - Show

Gabriella Cilmi is thinking of eating meat on the down low while she’s touring with vegetarian Leona Lewis who’s banned such items for her crew on the road.

“The catering is vegan. I’m from an Italian family, we love meat so I’ll have to smuggle in some salami or something,” she said, according to The Mirror.

Um, no honey, you should see the experience as a learning opportunity and respect your boss’ wishes.

Maybe she could ask the catering crew to whip up a faux salami recipe in the kitchen.

If this chick were touring with Morrissey, she’d get canned faster than the pack of sardines she hid in her bosom.

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Warner Brothers/InStyle Golden Globe Awards Party

So you’ve already burned through the online vegetarian dating websites and still no luck in finding Mr./Mrs. Meatless Right. You pick Pretty Pork Lover forever and forever for holy meatramony and think it’s one of the worse ethical decisions to make.

Maybe you’re wrong, as your spouse could pick up some of your eating habits after waking up to your soy sausage breakfast every morning.

Jaime Pressly recently told Health that she’s no longer making country fried steak as much after a day on the My Name Is Earl set.

Q: Your husband is a vegetarian and you’re not. Have your eating habits changed as a result?

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Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 in Birthdays.

Kimora Lee Simmons Hosts Baby Phat Pre Party - Arrivals

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

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36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards - Arrivals

Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have become the latest celebrities to show support for representative Jared Polis‘ bill that would enable schools to provide more vegetarian meals and non-dairy beverage options in cafeterias.

The ladies have sent a written letter to Congress, urging them to back the Healthy School Meals Act.

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Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 in Birthdays.

Ginnifer Goodwin seen taking a coffee break and waving in between doing screen tests for the upcoming film Something Borrowed
A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

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Treehugger posted a video from a talk given by Moby and Miyun Park, the two co-editors of the book about factory farming, Gristle, during one of their book promotion appearances.

Moby reiterated what he’s said before in interviews about how subsidies to big farms not only make it harder for people to buy healthier, organic, plant based food, but contribute to more destruction of the environment and more animals killed, as these subsidies are also used to start new farms.

Moby has previously estimated that beef would cost around $30 a pound if subsidies to the meat industry were removed.

Definitely no longer a value meal at McDonald’s, that’s for sure.

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Lyman VS. Niman Debate Generates Heat From Vegetarian Author

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, May 21st, 2010 in Animal Issues, Food & Drink.

Lyman VS. Niman

Lyman VS. Niman

The debate over whether you can be a good environmentalist and still eat meat recently took place between former rancher and author of Mad Cowboy, Howard Lyman and Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Righteous Porkshop and wife of Niman Ranch founder Bill Niman. The event was co-sponsored by VegNews magazine and Earth Island Institute.

Although both authors agreed that factory farming is devastating to the environment, their views differed, of course, in the impact of small farms on the planet and the ethics of raising and killing animals for food.

Michele Simon, author of Appetite For Profit, took the opportunity on Alternet to use her stance as a vegetarian to give counter arguments for how, regardless of environmental impact, eating animals cannot be justified and there is no “humane” meat.

She mentions Lyman’s argument that keeping animals in better conditions before slaughter does not make the killing any more acceptable, comparing it to keeping Jews in “5 star hotels” and feeding them “lavish meals” before being sent to death during the Holocaust.

Simon uses a similar ethnic argument, playing upon Niman’s opinion that it’s better to keep animals in good conditions on ethical farms than to have them fend for themselves in the wild.

“This sounded chillingly like the arguments for slavery. You know, blacks were really much better off getting free room and board and they weren’t treated all that badly were they?”

Read more at Alternet.

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The Dome 54 - Red Carpet Arrivals

Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi has expressed concerns for the vegetarian menu Leona Lewis has put on her tour that she’ll be supporting.

Cilmi told Digital Spy:

“All I know so far is that the food’s going to be vegan, and I’m not sure how I’m going to cope with that. I’m not a huge meat-eater, but I need it sometimes for energy! I’m really excited about it actually, because they’re going to be the biggest venues I’ve done so far in the UK.”

Before Gabriella sticks her tongue out at veggie food, she should do her research in between those awesome Donna Summer moves she’s practicing for the stage.

Plant based protein can provide her with just as much, if even more energy as the chicken sandwich she’s used to munching on.

A McDonald’s hamburger, for example, contains 12 grams of protein, while a serving of seitan contains almost twice as much–22 grams!

Not to mention less than 2 grams of fat versus the 9 found in a burger, plus no cholesterol to keep Gabriella fitting into those sexy outfits that make you actually want to show up early for the opening act.

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