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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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The Food Network has once again shown love to vegan chefs.

This Sunday, April 10th at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT the network will host its first ever donut making competition, Food Network Challenge: Donut Champions, that will feature a vegan donut bakery in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, Mighty-O.

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Kathy Freston Vegan Promo Makes Good Food Porn (Video)

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

Kathy Freston has rolled out another video where she extolls the virtues of the vegan lifestyle.

Freston brings up all the good points about eating vegan, such as health and the environment, but this video actually says more with its props.

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The Philadelphia Phillies have already won vegetarians fans by offering faux chicken sandwiches, vegan rice krispie treats and mock crab cakes at their home playing field of Citizens Bank Park. Now, the Phillies second baseman Chase Utley has really hit a home run with animal lovers by starring in a PSA for adopting pets.

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Is this a face you trust for nutrition advice?

Bob Parons, CEO of the domain hosting company GoDaddy.com, was recently criticized for shooting an elephant (an unarmed one at that) during a trip to Zimbabwe.

Parsons has defended his actions, saying the elephants disturb the farmers’ crops and it was used to feed hungry people.

Wait, there’s more.

Just recently, Parsons told CNN that elephants are a “valuable source of protein.”

We can think of dozens of “valuable sources of protein” that don’t contribute to the extinction of an animal, like beans, nuts, grains, tofu, tempeh, seitan and veggie meats.

Thank  goodness this guy’s not contributing to the USDA food pyramid anytime soon.

via BoingBoing

Photo: ParsonsRep/en.wikipedia

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