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Jamie Oliver‘s second season of Food Revolution premiers tonight at 8/7 C on ABC.

Here’s a little clip which focuses on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s decision to forbid Oliver from entering their schools and the surprising reactions from listeners to Ryan Seacrest‘s radio show. Parents of children in the school system call in to describe in every detail why Oliver should have been admitted.

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Wayne Pacelle Proposes Humane Economy For Animals

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 in Animal Issues, Business.

Every year, businesses that use animals for entertainment or fashion like zoos, circuses and retail make millions of dollars. Many of these industries have histories of keeping these animals in less than ideal conditions, resulting in injuries, premature deaths and numerous safety issues for both animals and humans.

What if, instead of these businesses making money treating animals inhumanely, they generated ideas to attract people to pay money for animal causes that made a difference? That contributed to the conservation of species, ending the cases of abused animals and resulted in an educational setting that was both beneficial to humans and animals?

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Michael Franti On Endangered Animals And Humans

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 in Environment-Eco-Green, Male Musicians, Male Singers.

Michael Franti, who mostly follows a vegan diet, is very outspoken on humanitarian and environmental issues, and uses his platform as a well-liked musician to bring about change.

For over a decade, he’s helped organize the Power To The Peaceful Festival, a concert held in San Francisco annually that raises funds for good causes.

He’s also helped collect shoes at his concerts for the charity, Soles4Souls.

Franti interviewed with Global Grind, where he touched on the topics of endangered species, both animals and humans living in poverty.

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Ed Begley Jr., his wife and family were spotted having dinner at Portland’s Natural Selection restaurant, an eatery featuring vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free items.

Sources say Begley promised he’d return when he was in Portland again.

Just what is it about chef Aaron Woo, a graduate of the California Culinary Academy’s restaurant that would make Begley begley for more?

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This past weekend, the Food Network hosted its first ever breakfast making competition, which featured vegan donut baker Sara Beth Russert from Seattle’s Mighty-O donut bakery.

Russert won the challenge, beating out two other bakeries in a contest where bakers had to created donuts based on themes in two rounds of competition.

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Several celebrities have inked themselves in temporary color to support a campaign of the Humane Society International to end the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in the UK by 2013.

“It’s upsetting to think that right now thousands of animals are enduring painful tests for cosmetics that could end up being sold on EU shop shelves,” said Leona Lewis. “So I’m sending a plea to EU politicians to have a heart for animals by keeping their promise to ban the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in 2013. If companies can’t sell their products, they’ll stop animal testing, and we’ll be one stop closer to the whole world being cruelty-free.”

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Shahid Kapoor Knows Chicks Love A Vegetarian (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 11th, 2011 in Actors, Food & Drink, Videos.

PETA has launched a brand new ad featuring Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor promoting vegetarianism.

Holding two chicks in the palms of his hands, Shahid flashes a smile that helped him win PETA India’s Sexiest Vegetarian of 2009 award.

“I love chicks… pigs, cows, fish, and all the other animals too,” Shahid said. “That’s why I turned vegetarian.”

“I am very happy being a vegetarian and I believe that it is the best way to be. The day I started believing in the fact that I would want not to kill animals for my taste buds that is the day everything changed for me.”

A video featuring a behind the scenes interview with Shahid during the shoot can be viewed below.

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“First it’s important for me to say I’m not perfect and that for me, it is about the principle. Sustainability is important, recycling is important. I think it is a mind-set: everyone can do really simple things to make a difference, every little bit counts and there is still a long way to go. My first job is to be a fashion designer — my first job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories that women want to buy but I will always take the opportunity to use a beautiful organic fabric. I obviously don’t use any animal skins or furs in my collections which has a huge impact on the planet. About fifty million animals die for the sake of fashion ever year, which is extremely wasteful and significantly contributes to climate change as farming uses a lot of water, energy and land, devastate forests and pollutes oceans.”

Stella McCartney to Fabsugar on her committment to the earth when creating clothing.

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