Vegetarian Star

The Big Bang Theory recently featured a few of the characters in a pie-eating contest, including Mayim Bialik‘s Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler.

Bialik took to her blog to discuss the episode and scene, in a post titled, “Top 10 Behind the Scene Moments from Last Night’s Pie Eating Scene.”

The best part of the scene? The pie was vegan and kosher.

The worst? Bialik has horrible blueberry allergies!

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities today.

• Natalie Merchant (49)

Photo: Tandemracer @ Flickr/Creative Commons

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Woody Harrelson is behind an innovative company that has spent more than a decade perfecting an eco-friendly wood-free paper.

Prairie Pulp & Paper is a Winnipeg-based company co-founded by the vegetarian and environmentalist actor that has created paper made from wheat straw–a product considered field waste by farmers that is often burned.

“I had a meeting with this engineer who is very knowledgeable about the making of non-wood pulp and paper mills,” Harrelson said. “I asked him who was the closest to making this happen in North America.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Eating Animals was chosen by the College of Charleston as this year’s College Reads! selection. The College Reads! program chooses a book for incoming students to read that is then incorporated into various academic syllabi and discussed throughout the year.

Eating Animals touches on the livestock and meat industry, environmental impact of meat eating, animal welfare standards, vegetarianism and veganism and more.

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Pamela Anderson spends her Thanksgiving holidays with turkey like everyone else. She just doesn’t put it on her plate. The longtime vegetarian and former Baywatch actress revealed she enjoys going to a farm sanctuary and spending time with the birds who’ll never become someone’s dinner.

‘I go to the Gentle Barn and hang out with turkeys,” Anderson told NY Post’s Page Six. “I tickle them under the wings and I sit them on my lap, and I feed them pumpkin pie.”

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Bob Barker has a feature in Vegetarian Times where he discusses what made him go vegetarian and his devotion to animal charities for the past several decades.

His favorite dish is pasta primavera, which sounds like the perfect food to throw his favorite vegetables of broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, and asparagus in.

Here’s what motivated him to change his diet 35 years ago.

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A Spanish version of Paul McCartney‘s Glass Walls narrated video was shown to a group of students at Los Angeles’ predominately Latino Roosevelt High School. The film illustrates what goes on behind the closed doors of the meat industry and encourages people to adopt a vegetarian diet.

Vegan and TV host Marco Antonio Regil was there to discuss veganism and present the video, which motivated 15 students to sign a pledge to go vegetarian that day.

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“These cute adorable baby calves jumping around, playing around, would be on someone’s plate someday. And I said, ‘Wait, so people can eat them?’ Mom just shook her head because she knew what was going to happen. I couldn’t eat those precious cows. They were my babies. I bottle-fed some of them. And now I knew where they went.”

—Carrie Underwood, during a VH1 Behind the Music interview on the lighbulb moment she experienced that prompted her to become a vegetarian.

Photo: Keith Hinkle/Creative Commons

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