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Laura Ingraham hosted In Defense of Animal’s Hope Bohanec and the two discussed San Francisco’s recent declaration of observing Meatless Monday in the city.

Ingraham called the movement “elitist” and suggested other issues such as workers’ wages were more pressing.

While it’s true that economic problems may be a great threat now, promoting less meat certainly isn’t subtracting any funds or time devoted to those issues, as the movement is being promoted by small groups devoted to the interest and no one is being taxed for their hamburgers.

Hope mentions that eating just two meals a week vegetarian has a greater environmental impact than buying all food locally.

Ingraham responds with data of her own, saying the whole methane gas from cow farts study was exaggerated.

Watch the debate and decide for yourself.

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Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 in Birthdays, Female Musicians, Female Singers.

2010 Nightlife Awards New York City

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

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Tobey Maguire Wanted To Be Chef

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 12th, 2010 in Actors, Food & Drink.

The Greatest Los Angeles Premiere

Spiderman could have taught you to make szechuan tofu.

Actor Tobey Maguire originally wanted to be a chef, according to his IMDB profile trivia.

His mom gave him $100 to take an acting class instead of home economics in high school and the rest is history.

Tobey might have been aspiring to walk in his father’s footsteps, as Vincent Maguire worked as a cook when he wasn’t busy with construction.

The world may not have lost a great chef after all, as one only has to look at another vegetarian thesbian, Alicia Silverstone, to see that actors and actresses can play many roles well, including the one of cookbook author.

The cooking community is ready for another vegetarian male chef to accompany Bryant Terry and Tal Ronnen, and “Spiderman Does Soba,” would sure make a hit with vegetarians and those who are health conscious.

The almost vegan Tobey once said, “It’s never really been that hard for me. I’ve never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that.”

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Mario Batali “Molto Gusto” Tastefully Includes Vegetarian Recipes

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 12th, 2010 in Books, Chefs, Food & Drink.

Mario Batali "Molto Gusto"

Mario Batali "Molto Gusto"

Mario Batali‘s latest cookbook, Molto Gusto, is being highlighted by Food Examiner Dara Bunjon for its colorful photographs, pasta cooking and pizza making tips and variety of recipes based on culinary expertise.

She also adds that there is a “large mouthwatering selection” of vegetarian recipes that “carnivores will love.”

Now we’re talking!

Has Mario picked up on Italian where Giada de Laurentiis left off?

The chef who recently said protein is “over represented on the plate” and recommended everyone fill their dishes with more foods from the garden, lost over 40 pounds by eating more vegetarian meals, presumably like those from the “Vegetable Antipasti” “Insalata” and “Pasta” sections of Molto Gusto versus the “Seafood and Meat Antipasti” one.

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Vegetarian iPhone App By Faizal Mohammed Scans Ingredients (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 12th, 2010 in Food & Drink, Tech, Videos.

There’s nothing worse than digging into your favorite microwave pack of sesame noodles, only to later find out there’s fish seasoning in the dehydrated packet.

Developer Faizal Mohammed knew this pain, and created two iphone applications, one for vegetarians and one for those who eat halal.

When you take a picture of the list of ingredients, the app scans the pic and looks for unacceptable ones.

Treehugger says an iPhone 3GS is necessary to take a legible photo of the ingredients that can be read by the scanner.

As of now, only additives are included in the app, which is good, because most of those are the names we don’t quickly recognize.

The one downside is that ingredients such as “natural flavors” can’t be decoded with the app, since the source of the flavors doesn’t have to be listed.

In the future, more ingredients will be added to the database.

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Simon Cowell's Sweet Afternoon With Mezhgan Hussainy!

Simon Cowell is worried about his thighs before his big wedding to Mezhgan Hussainy.

The X Factor and American Idol judge has been reportedly drinking several fruit and vegetable mix shakes every day in an effort to slim down.

Cowell has lost 12 pounds from his homemeade V8 efforts.

According to The Mirror, Cowell said, “I am vain. I’m obsessed with my weight,” which explains why he has no issues downing 200 ml mixes of “spinach and banana” drinks.

Not that Popeye’s food and Chiquita Organic aren’t good.

But as a couple, their compatibility is questionable.

Admittedly, the drinks sound like a great way to get servings of produce in, especially for a guy who’s so committed to bettering the environment, he’s giving Meat Free Mondays a try.

And all the good looking gents are doing this, as Peter Max can’t get enough of his salad in a glass either.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Vegetarian Children’s Book On Goop

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 12th, 2010 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Books, Food & Drink.

Sundance Film Festival '07 - Gwyneth Paltrow and Keri Russell Read To Local Children

Gwyneth Paltrow has a couple of tykes of her own, so she knows firsthand the joy of reading children’s books, both classic and modern.

In a recent edition of her online newsletter, Goop.com, Paltrow has included several of her favorite children’s books and for parents who wish to combine bed time stories with education, Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale by Henrik Drescher, is one she recommends picking up during your next trip to the library or bookstore.

Hubert is a pig-elephant hybrid with horns (could this be a result of some terrible big farm GMO project?) who narrowly escapes his fate as bacon and ham when he slides through a hole at Farmer Jake’s Processing Plant.

After meeting up with some other animals with freedom, the team devise a plan to rescue the others and persuade the farmer to open a tofu dog factory instead.

“This book is a great way to teach kids about vegetarianism plus the brightly colored ink illustrations make each page fun to get lost in,” writes Gwyneth.

For more of Gwyneth’s book recommendations, visit Goop.

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Cesar Millan Face Of North Shore Animal League Adoptathon

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 12th, 2010 in Animal Issues, TV Hosts.

Pet Adoptathon with Cesar Millan

Pet Adoptathon with Cesar Millan

Cesar Millan, renowned dog expert and star of the National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer, is the spokesperson for the Pet Adoptathon, an event taking place on May 1 and May 2 at more than 2,000 animal shelters around the world.

The event originally began as a North Shore Animal League program as a way to find homes for animals at its shelter.

The League began inviting other shelters to do the same and 16 years later, more than 300,000 animals have found homes through the Adoptathon.

Millan says the rescue effort is mutual and by inviting a shelter pet into their homes, humans live more fulfilling, happier lives.

“Millions of many wonderful animals end up in shelters each year, and adoption provides these animals their second chance at life. The act of adopting a dog creates balance and completeness in our lives by fulfilling the need in every human of contribution, if only for a moment. Really, who is saving who?”

The Adoptahon promotes the adoption of mixed breeds, called Mutt-i-grees by the organization, which make up the majority of pets that are euthanized each year.

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