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Paula Deen “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Cooks Non Pet Chickens (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 in Chefs, Not So Vegetarian, Videos.

Paula Deen was on Jimmy Kimmel last night demonstrating how to cook fried chicken.

A chicken that wasn’t her friend.

You see, Paula is an activist of some sort.

She has pet chickens that she calls “rescue chickens,” formerly sentinel chickens used to monitor diseases transmitted by mosquitoes.

She would never eat her pet chickens and said she loves opening her home to animals.

“I love anything with heartbeat to come into my house y’all,” Paula said while cooking the dead chicken.

“Okay. And now we’re going to fry something with a hearbeat,” Kimmel said.

“I don’t know them, and I don’t have a relationship with them. I’ve never scratched their ears,” Paula said in regards to the dead chickens.

Pet chickens= no food. Chickens you haven’t formerly introduced yourself to and scratched ears= fried chicken.

Sounds like Paula has a serious case of moral schizophrenia.

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Martha Stewart Meatless Recipes

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Recipes, TV Hosts.

Vanity Fair Celebrates The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

Martha Stewart loves us!

She’s featuring almost 100 vegetarian recipes on her website to celebrate Meatless Mondays during Earth Week.

There are two slideshows.

Fifty fast meatless main dishes give instructions for cooking up creative dishes like Lighter Eggplant Parmesan, Sesame Noodles and West Coast Grilled Vegetable Pizza.

The 45 meatless comfort food recipes offer meat free ways to create old time favorites like chili using vegetarian black beans and tacos with portabello mushrooms and zucchini.

Martha, who’s Sirius XM radio  host daughter Alexis, is vegetarian, has been regularly featuring vegetarian friendly segments, from her meatless Thanksgiving ideas to celebrating National Soy Month.

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Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 in Birthdays, Male Musicians, Male Singers.

John Varvatos Hosts Road Recovery Benefit

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

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Alicia Silverstone and Olivia Wilde are two vegan sisters on the screen in the upcoming political satire film Butter, where an inexperienced butter carver upsets the older projected winner.

Alicia plays the adoptive mother of the young inexperienced carver, while Olivia is the stripper meant to distract the champ with her…dairy delights.

Between the two vegan Butter stars, who would you rather…

Broadway Opening Of RED - Arrivals And Curtain Call Matt Damon and wife Luciana at The 24th American Cinematheque Award in LA

Who Would You Rather Do Veggie Burger Lunch With?

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Bea Arthur PETA McCruelty Ad In Chicago Tribune

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Food & Drink.

Bea Arthur "McCruelty" PETA Ad

Bea Arthur "McCruelty" PETA Ad

It’s been said before that celebrities make more money from their graves than alive.

In the case of Golden Girl Bea Arthur, let’s hope that statement is true for the impact they make as well.

On Thursday, Arthur will be featured in a full page ad in the Chicago Tribune as part of PETA’s McCruelty campaign against McDonald’s.

“It’s enough to make Bea Arthur roll over in her grave,” is the tagline of the ad that describes how the animal rights group is dissatisfied with the fast food giant’s current methods of slaughtering chicken, and urges it to adopt another USDA approved method that is less painful and more humane.

The method is supported by McDonald’s animal welfare advisors, but its CEO Jim Skinner is currently calling the shots that ring “No.”

The ad’s message ends with Arthur’s character Maude’s famous haunting saying, “God’ll get you for that,” to Skinner.

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Mario Batali “Molto Gusto” Lets You Meet New Vegetables

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 in Books, Chefs, Food & Drink.

Premiere screening of Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.


Remember when you tried a shiitake mushroom for the first time?

Different in taste and texture from the white button ones you consumed on pizza at the county fair, yet a great experience that hopefully led to many more.

Mario Batalis latest cookbook, Molto Gusto, may have you meeting new vegetables, according to The Buffalo News.

“Some of the vegetables in “Molto Gusto” are relatively obscure – salsify, cardoons, black kale, sunchokes – but the breadth of vegetable preparations in “Molto Gusto” is infectious. Armed with Batali’s suggestions, it seems, readers could tackle almost any vegetable they bring home.”

Let’s get to know these one at a time.

Sunchoke: Jerusalem artichoke
Salsify: A flowering plant, also known as goatsbeard. Described as having the taste of oysters.
Cardoon: May be used as a vegetarian source for enzymes in cheese production.
Black Kale: Member of the cabbage family nicknamed Curley or Dinosaur.

We’re thinking meeting them all in a big taste test would be awesome.

Kinda like vegetable speed dating.

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Jamie Oliver Says Real Men Shouldn’t Drink Pink

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 in Chefs, Children, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.

European Premiere of Kick Ass held at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square

On a recent episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, Jamie Oliver is peeved whenever the pink milk he thought he sent packing from the school cafeteria in the town where he’s trying to change people’s eating habits showed up only days later.

Just like Jamie found out french fries count wonderfully as a vegetable, he learned pink milk, despite the sugar content, makes a good source of calcium according to USDA standards.

“Clever! I never thought that if you put sugar in everything they’d eat it more!” Jamie said.

If we only had more Jamies to challenge the dairy milk requirement in schools across the country, our students would be in better shape.

According to Healthy School Lunches, flavored milks such as strawberry or chocolate, may contain as much or more sugar than soda.

Not to mention the numerous studies that have linked cow’s milk to health ailments like constipation, obesity, anemia, ear infections, respiratory issues and cancer.

Pink milk will definitely not turn boys into strong men.

And to think it was soy milk and male boobs people were worried about.

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British musician Brian May of rock band Queen poses in front of an animal rights billboard in London

“This is a disappointment, of course. But not just for thousands of innocent badgers. The irony is that it is ultimately a tragedy for farmers, too – the very farmers who have been pushing for badgers to be culled. The decision to cull cannot lead to any significant long-term gain in the fight against bovine TB, even with the complete extermination of our native badgers. I believe all this will be seen in a few years time for what it is … a tragic wrong turn which did nothing to solve the problem of TB in cattle.”

Brian May, Queen guitarist, PhD, vegetarian and animal activist on the recent decision of the a judge to reject a legal challenge against a cull of badgers in Wales in an attempt to control bovine TB.

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