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Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is a new documentary about health transformation being screened at select locations in the United States and is also available for download from the Internet.

The film follows Joe Cross, a morbidly obese man with an autoimmune disease who begins a 3,000 mile journey to better health by drinking only vegetable and fruit juice for 60 days.

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“Masterchef” Puts Vegetarian Chef Ahead Of Competition

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 in Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Recipes.

Reality TV has a way of giving the vegetarian the shaft. And not the juicy, nutritious celery kind either.

Often, the contestant has to choose between continuing to compete or eating meat, cooking meat or gets lambasted by judges, competitors and blogs for cooking meatless dishes.

This season, BBC’s Masterchef tells a different story. One of the four finalists in the competition is known for her vegetarian dishes and Mastechef’s co-presenter Greg Wallace is impressed.

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Humane Society’s Wayne Pacelle Interview With KQED (Audio)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 in Animal Issues, Audio.

President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States Wayne Pacelle recently interviewed with Northern California’s public radio station KQED where he discussed the most recent seal hunt initiated in Canada, his new book, The Bond, and numerous animal welfare issues.

Pacelle mentions that while the morality of the seal hunt makes it an obvious practice that should end, even those who don’t object to it morally should not see any reason for it to continue on an economic level.

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Another pop star has decided he’s not into Canada’s club scene.

Yesterday, we revealed Ke$sha‘s anti seal hunt ad and today we bring you the message from a legend in rock and roll, Iggy Pop.

[T]he screams of horror from the animals that watch the first other ones be bludgeoned—they don’t even try to run,” Iggy said in an interview with PETA. “They don’t know what’s gonna hit ’em. I don’t think anyone who’d seen that would want to wear fur.”

The behind the scenes video component to Iggy’s ad shoot can be viewed below.

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Bob Harper Smart Success Supplements Now Available

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 in Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness, TV Hosts.

Bob Harper has released his long awaited line of dietary and weight loss supplements, Bob Harper’s Smart Success.

The products–consisting of a weight loss starter kit, a 7-day cleanse and a weight loss formula–are available at several retailers, including Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, GNC and Rite Aid.

Harper, a vegan, made sure the products were designed to fit both his diet and ethical choices.

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Living in the home with a mixed eater who refuses to touch your vegetarian cookbooks because he thinks they’ll turn him into a granola hippie? Give him one of these two books recently released by Sheryl Crow or Gwyneth Paltrow featuring many vegetarian and vegan recipes hidden to trick the omnivore into thinking it’s just another great tasting dish.

Being the two celebrities who’ve published vegetarian and vegan friendly cookbooks, who would you rather…


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Natalie Portman disappointed some of her vegan fans when she recently announced she had started eating eggs as a result of a craving and she felt her body was telling her to give in.

“I was listening to my body to have eggs,” Portman said. “If you’re not eating eggs, then you can’t have cookies or cake from regular bakeries, which can become a problem when that’s all you want to eat.”

However, studies recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology tell a different story about what a woman needs during pregnancy and excessive egg consumption isn’t one of them.

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If you missed the premier of Jamie Oliver‘s Food Revolution season 2, it’s now available online to view.

Banned from stirring things up in school kitchens, Oliver has to promote his healthier way of heating in different settings.

One interesting demonstration he did for the first episode was to show parents and children where their food comes from. This was accomplished by bringing a live cow into the room.

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