Vegetarian Star

Walmart has unveiled a plan that will overhaul the types of foods sold at its super centers across the country today in a ceremony with the First Lady present.

Michelle Obama‘s “Let’s Move” campaign that promotes better food choices and exercise has influenced officials to embark on a plan to make packaged foods healthier, change labels to help consumers recognize better choices, combat the excessive consumption of dessert foods, make healthier foods more affordable and increase charitable support to nutrition programs.

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Justin Bieber has done another PETA ad, his current one advocating adopting a pet at a shelter versus buying one from a store or breeder.

Playing on his hit song, “U Smile,” the ad reads, “Animals can make u smile. Adopt from your local shelter.”

Many people use the excuse that they need (or want) a purebred animal to avoid a shelter. But Dr. Debbye Turner Bell, veterinarian and CBS News correspondent says that about 25-30% of shelter animals are purebreds.

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Renowned chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber have vowed to take bluefin tuna, a critically endangered fish that’s high in mercury, off their menus as part of the Center For Biological Diversity‘s campaign to protect them.

The campaign was launched on November 30, 2010, after the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas refused to take action to protect the species. Both the Western and Eastern Atlantic varieties of bluefin have declined in numbers by 80% since 1970 and 74% between 1957 and 2007, respectively.

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“Stress lowers your pH, causes inflammation and makes your cortisol levels spike. There are places where we might be stuck in stinking thinking, so it’s important we spend some time with self-reflection. It’s not just what you’re eating, but what’s eating you. If you have the “perfect” diet but are riddled with stress and anxiety, that’s not good. It’s not just about health. It’s about happiness.”

–Kris Carr, to Express Night Out on why she chose to include a chapter about meditation in her latest book advocating a plant-based diet for health, Crazy Sexy Life, which shot to #1 on the Amazon.com best seller list within the first week of its release.

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“Portlandia” is a new IFC series that picks up on mocking the green, progressive lifestyle where the not as successful animated series The Goode Family left off.

Premiering Friday the 21st on the IFC, Portlandia takes place in Oregon where “the dream of the 90s is alive,” meaning no character is left without a bicycle to ride around town, a recycling bin in the backyard and goes a week without patronizing the locally owned coffee shop and bookstore.

Obviously food is a huge part of living green and the first episode features a couple dining at a restaurant that professes to serve humane chicken. An intense investigation takes place at the table, resulting in the waitress bringing the couple a file with the chicken’s photo and a lengthy sheet about its diet and the space it actually had to roam during its lifetime. There is a file for each chicken eaten, complete with name. This one’s named Collen.

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Def Leppard’s Phil Collen will give a presentation at the Los Angeles Fitness Expo on January 29 and January 30. He’ll be joined by his fitness trainer, international Muay Thai Kick Boxing champion and world coach Jean Carrillo. The pair will cover weight training, cardiovascular health and health and nutrition for all ages.

One particular subject Collen will touch on is the issue of childhood obesity. We got a chance to do a Q & A with Collen recently and asked this current vegan and vegetarian for over three decades how convincing parents that a plant-based diet is key to fighting this epidemic.

“When it comes to telling parents how to feed their children it can be a touchy subject if bad eating habits were ingrained in those parents when they were children and so on. To them, there may be no other way. There are walls of excuses to get around.”

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Robin Quivers‘ cat, Brangelina Quivers, is getting a kidney transplant.

If you think you spend a lot on cat food, you should hear what Quivers is spending on the cat’s surgery.

According to the Howard Stern Examiner, Quivers told the Howard Stern Show audience on Tuesday the procedure is going to cost $15,000!

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Tim Hogarth was featured on The Veg Edge, a segment on the Food Network’s sister channel, “The Cooking Channel” that highlighted the world of veg from both coasts of the United States.

Hogarth is a musician in Los Angeles and his online cooking show, Heavy Metal Vegan Cooking, combines food with entertainment and humor, as it regularly features characters like Satan when seitan is being made and other “guests” like Paula Deen and the ghost of Michael Jackson have appeared.

In cased you missed The Veg Edge last year, it’s showing again on February 16th at 9:00 PM and 1:00 AM on The Cooking Channel.

The humorous clip of Hogarth’s “Wings of Seitan” is shown above and his segment from The Veg Edge can be seen below.

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