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John Salley is offering his nutritional guidance to the Detroit Pistons in hopes they’ll offer him a job in exchange.

Salley has gone so far as to create the perfect job title describing how he’ll get them on the right track–Player Development, Strength and Conditioning Assistant.

When Salley and Shaquille O’Neal played together with the Los Angeles Lakers, O’Neal nicknamed Salley “the witch doctor” for his ability to diagnose and treat ailments and get players feeling better again. O’Neal has at least cut red meat from his diet.

Will Salley use his magical spells to transform the diets of the Pistons?

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If it makes you healthy. It can’t be that bad.

Actually, it’s not bad at all. It’s very good, because many of Sheryl Crow‘s 125 recipes in her new cookbook, If It Makes You Healthy, are vegan friendly.

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Vivienne Westwood Gets Rain Forest Protection From Pamela Anderson

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 in Environment-Eco-Green, Fashion.

As a lady who has it all, what else would you like for your birthday? The moon? The sun? The stars? How about 70 acres of protected rainforest?

In honor of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood‘s 70th birthday, Pamela Anderson has sponsored 70 acres of land in Peru through rainforest charity Cool Earth.

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April is National Garden Month and what a better way to celebrate than releasing a children’s book about the White House Garden.

First Garden: The White House Garden And How it Grew from Clarion Books, is a 48-page hardcover edition aimed at 6-8 year olds, filled with recipes and colorful pictures in addition to text that traces the history of the garden, from the first dig to the harvesting of hundreds of pounds of vegetables served to the First Family and guests in the White House Kitchen.

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“Top Chef” Stars Boycott Canadian Seafood

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 in Animal Issues, Chefs, Food & Drink.

The annual Canadian seal hunt has begun, and starts a long season of bloody, bludgeoned animals that are killed before they even reach maturity.

Some of the contestants from Top Chef All Stars have teamed up with the Humane Society’s Chefs for Seals program, where prominent chefs and restaurants vow to boycott Canadian seafood until the hunt has permanently ended.

Recently eliminated Top Chef star Mike Isabella said: “Until the Canadian provinces end seal-hunting, I cannot in good conscience source my seafood from that region.”

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Flavor Flav is known for a lot of things, including wacky hats, bizarre outfits and starting the fashion trend of wearing large clocks around your neck.

Okay, so maybe not the last one.

What Flavor Flav isn’t known for, however, is being one of those cooler hip-hop artists that has embraced a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle.

Now, PETA is offering him a chance to amp up his image by making his fried chicken restarant vegetarian.

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Parenthood‘s Mae Whitman has been chosen to star with Emma Watson in a new film about a 15-year old kid struggling with the ups and downs of adolescence, including his girlfriend issues with Watson.

Whitman will play a tattooed vegetarian girlfriend of the 15-year old boy in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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The vegetarian co-founder and CEO of FEED Projects, Lauren Bush, has once again provided a trendy, environmentally friendly way to help those in need through FEED Projects’ latest bag that will provide support to organizations helping victims of the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami, the FEED Japan bag.

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