Vegetarian Star

Bob Barker has always been outspoken on animal welfare issues, but has he joined Captain Paul Watson and the rest of the Sea Shepherd crew to thwart the whalers in the Southern Ocean?

Not quite (but hey, there’s always next season).

The Bob Barker is the latest ship to partake in the Sea Shepherd mission off the Adelie Coast.

The ship was refurbished thanks to a $5 million dollar donation by none other than Mr. Price is Right himself.

Check out the photo of Bob Barker (the ship) at tmz.com!

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Kirstie Alley is one of those celebrities vegetarians loathe-she went veg, had a bad experienced and blabbed about it.

“I can’t tell you how much weight I gained being a vegetarian!” Kirstie said. “A vegetarian would probably be eating vegetables.”

You can probably guess from Kirstie’s statement she wasn’t eating vegetables.

But Kirstie recently expressed her desire to go veg again, this time partly for animal welfare reasons.

“I would love to become a vegetarian or at least eat very little meat,” Kirstie Tweeted. “The way animals are ofted is very brutal. I always struggle with this.”

Wow.

This isn’t just some Hollywood starlet trying tofu to take off the extra pounds!

Could Kirstie’s concern with animals raised for meat be the kicker she needs to learn the right way to eat vegetarian?

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West coast vegans are jumping with joy now that one of the most popular and celebrity sought after bakeries has opened in Los Angeles.

BabyCakes LA opened its doors in California this past weekend.

BabyCakes LA is located in downtown Los Angeles at 130 East 6th Street (between S. Main Street and S. Los Angeles Street).

Offering vegan cookies, brownies, cupcakes, loaves and more, the bakery was founded in New York by Erin McKenna after she spent hours in her own kitchen formulating recipes for desserts her body could tolerate, given her numerous food sensitivities.

BabyCakes items are vegan, mostly organic and gluten-free.

Hmm…New York during the summer, sunny Cal during the winter.

It’s time to purchase an east coast/west coast time share.

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MTV Real World XXIII Washington, D.C. Callie-the vegan from Texas.

It seems as if MTV Real World likes to cast with the idea to create the most diverse, yet dysfunctional household every season, ultimately leading to several of the reality TV stars feeling like fishes out of water.

This season’s mix of cast features Callie, a vegan from Texas.

Hmm…A vegan from the south.

Has Callie already experienced what it’s like to feel out of place?

From MTV.com:

“A free-spirit vegan, Callie has always felt a little out of place in her conservative Texas town, and she’s just chomping at the bit to break free and chase her dreams of becoming a photographer. In D.C., she hopes to find the kinds of outlets for her creativity that don’t exist in small-town Texas and make some new friends along the way”

Wishing Callie the vegan best of luck on the show and in pursuing her dreams.

Hope she keeps the Vegetarian Guide to Washington, D.C bookmarked on her Internet browser.

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The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood

Children’s books are getting more progressive and politically correct these days.

The big bad wolf in The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood can now be vegetarian and skip the treat of human meat while Little Red searches for vegetarian recipes.

Sounds hilarious enough, but not everyone is happy with the rewrites of traditional children’s stories.

The Mail Online wrote an article titled, Children Won’t Digest Tales of Feeble Vegetarian Wolves, in which it stated:

“What is so staggering is the sheer audacity of the people who come up with these new versions. It’s like the trendy Anglican clerics who took it upon themselves in the early 1960s to knock out an ‘improved’ version of the King James Bible. Yet just as we allow our local vicars to get away with using the enfeebled modernised Bible, so we let bookshops get away with flogging emaciated versions of children’s classics.”

A vegetarian wolf is far from emaciated.

What better way to teach children about healthy eating (not to mention non violent behavior) than to have the villainous wolf eat vegetables and forgo flesh.

This wolf should be portrayed living longer than his other wolf neighbors, paying less out of pocket expenses for his health care and scoring more with the female wolves as he misses out on the effects of eating cholesterol and fat filled human meat that will ultimately lead to his impotence.

Oh, wait. This is a children’s book. Healthy body, less doctor visits, but no impotence.

Perhaps other renditions of classic tales have adulterated the originals.

But the big, bad vegetarian wolf and his broccoli should stay.

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Vegan athlete Brendan Brazier will host a book signing and lecture at Whole Foods-Venice on January 5 2010 at 7PM.

Besides excelling in several athletic competitions, including winning the National 50km Ultra Marathon Championship twice, Brendan created his own vegan nutrition line, Vega, which features plant based protein shakes and bars.

Will Brendan bring any of his raw chocolate blueberry bars to the event? If so, the audience may be a little pleasantly distracted…

The Whole Foods Market—Venice is located at 225 Lincoln Blvd in Venice, CA.

This event is free. For more information and to RSVP (which is encouraged), email SP.Ven.Marketing [at] WholeFoods [dot] com.

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Jane Velez-Mitchell has used her position as a well known journalist on HLN to spotlight animal issues on several occasions.

Recently Jane and Nancy Grace had the opportunity to interview Jack Hanna, host of Jack Hanna Into The Wild–along with some of his animal friends.

After recounting a story about a dog who helped solve a crime by urinating on a tire, Jane discussed the pigs she met at a farm animal rescue center.

Some highlights from the transcript:

GRACE: You`ve had encounters with pigs? Is there anything you need to share with us?

(LAUGHTER)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, actually, because I`m an animal activist and I go to rescue organizations…

GRACE: Oh, there she goes! I was wondering how long it would take! Go ahead, Miss PETA!

(LAUGHTER)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, I go to a group, like Animal Acres here in Los Angeles, where they rescue farm animals that have been abused and they allow them to live the way animals should live. Pigs are incredibly intelligent animals, as intelligent as dogs. They have an incredible sense of smell. As you`ve just been seeing there, they are sentient creatures with feelings. They are being used by some in some test cases to sniff out drugs and as…

GRACE: Oh, drug pigs!

Are narcotic pigs the future of the police department in your hometown?

Learn what vegetarian animal Hanna introduced later on the show from the full transcript.

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Kim Kardashian has announced she’d like to improve her diet in 2010.

“Just to spend a little bit more time with my family and my friends and to really kick it up in the workout department and to try to eat better, Kim told US Magazine of her New Year’s resolution.”I cannot get it together with eating. I eat way too many Oreos.”

Hopefully, she’s going in the direction of sis Chloe and trying to eat more vegetarian.

But it’s hard to imagine that happening while she’s promoting that darn Carl Jr’s chicken salad.

What happened to the tofu, veggie burgers and quinoa Kim gobbled up while filming her fitness DVD series?

Will they make a comeback?

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