Vegetarian Star

“By the way, that’s not an ad for McDonald’s in case you missed that. The hamburger in a dead man’s hand. Yes, hamburgers kill. I just thought the Hamburglar stole stuff. He steals your life.”

—Glenn Beck, during a recent segment of his talk show on the new ad created by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine that’s airing in the Washington, D.C. area linking McDonald’s to heart disease. Not that Beck is championing the ad, of course. He later goes on to sarcastically suggest that people will automatically start running to carrots and suggests that although the ad is a “nudge” to encourage people to eat healthier, future initiatives could include punishment and jail time.

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Dating In The Dark

Dating in the Dark is getting rave reviews from Vegetarian Star this season just because they’re doing such a good job of showcasing meatless babes.

Earlier in the season, the show that lets couples get to know each other in a dark room (ha, ha, not what you’re thinking) to see if they’re compatible without taking looks into account featured a swim instructor who was vegetarian for ethical reasons.

And most recently, the show had two meatless gals, Kayla, a vegan and Kahleel, a vegetarian, trying to score carrots with the men on the show.

Kayla is the stereotypical preachy vegan who wants everybody on organic, whole grain seitan while Kahleel is happy to have people skip the chicken for faux nuggets.

What’s could possibly go wrong? The two veggies want the same guy! Who wins? Watch the episode below to find out.

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Talbots

When a company reverses or ignores a previously established policy, it loses creditability. Talbots, a clothing store specializing in women’s fashions, has been on the Humane Society’s fur-free retailers list for a decade. However, the company recently listed an $89 rabbit fur collar for sale as part of its fall collection.

Word of this got out and the company received a deluge of phone calls, emails and posts on Facebook from unhappy consumers regarding the decision to reinstate fur. As a result, the company has dropped the fur offering and declared itself fur-free again. For now.

“Thank you for your concern.,” a statement from the company read. “Talbots always seeks to operate under the highest ethical standards. We have heard our customers’ concerns regarding the items offered that contained real fur. These items have been pulled from stores and are no longer available for sale. Talbots remains committed to its policy against the use of real fur in our collection.”

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Jennie Garth has written a letter to Congress in support of H.R 5504, Improving Nutrition for America’s School Children act.

Garth specifically addressed Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house, regarding the bill.

“I’m writing to you because I am passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles. This past year, I have been working to educate and motivate children to make healthy choices,” says Garth. “But nutrition education isn’t enough. We also have to make sure that every child in American can find healthy foods in their school cafeteria.” (more…)

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Carrie Underwood "Women's Health" October 2010

Carrie Underwood is on the cover of Women’s Health magazine for its October 2010 issue, available on the stands now.

Inside Underwood reveals that although she’s extremely health conscious, her primary reason for eating vegetarian is her love of animals.

“I’m a vegetarian because I love animals. I grew up on a farm and they were all my pets! So the thought of me or someone else eating my pets kind of freaked me out at a young age.”

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Jamie Oliver has an exclusive interview with the Huffington Post where he revealed he plans to take all of his vegetarian recipes and put them into one collection.

Although Oliver insists every one of his cookbooks have always been at least 60% vegetarian, he’s giving veggies something they’ve always asked for in not having to wade through the recipes that aren’t pertinent. It will also prevent him from being assaulted by vegetables from the vegetarians who are tired of thumbing through the index to find what they need.

“Often I get cornered out by vegetarians who are going to knock me out with a cucumber. I’m like “dude, look in the back of the book. Open up the index and there’s all these little v’s.” And they’ll go “Oh, right, but we want out own book.” For many years I just felt like, “C’mon, stop being so sensitive.” But actually this year we’re going to bundle all of my vegetarian recipes and vegan recipes into one big massive, mammoth book and give ’em that book. Because it’s right. You know, in the old days there wasn’t so many vegetarians and now there’s many. Vegetarian as a general concept is a brilliant thing. We’ve got to stop eating so much meat. We are eating too much meat.”

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Charlie Trotter

Chicago based chef who’s appeared on a PBS cooking show and has a cameo appearance in “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” Charlie Trotter, gives the seal of approval to an Illinois program that allows low risk inmates to cultivate vegetables in a garden that are shipped to local food banks.

The Sheriff’s Garden Program was started 17 years ago at the Cook County Jail. After participants learn to plant, water, pull weeds and other tasks necessary to maintain a garden, they earn a master gardener’s certificate from the University of Illinois extension program and participate in a graduation ceremony at the end of the summer.

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Why do some restaurants feel the need to put beef or chicken stock in a vegetable soup?

Vegetable oil is healthier than animal fat, so why is lard still being used in dishes?

Anthony Bourdain is not a vegetarian’s best friend (during a recent interview, he suggests we have a social obligation to eat the turkey grandma cooks on Thanksgiving), but he does agree that the ubiquitous presence of meat is unhealthy and unnecessary.

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