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Trisha Yearwood

Country music favorite Trisha Yearwood‘s new six episode Food Network series debuted this weekend.

Southern food is traditionally known for the Paula Deen food groups of butter, cream, meat and butter, but Yearwood started experimenting in the kitchen with vegan dishes when her mother became ill and today she continues to enjoy plant-based meals with her family. She’s promised to use Trisha’s Southern Kitchen to show fans how easy it can be to make home-cooked comfort meals without animal ingredients, like this recipe for her Chickenless Pot Pie.

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It was an intense vegan and animal welfare moment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show today, because the camera was spotlighted on two incredible animal advocates.

DeGeneres hosted Humane Society’s Wayne Pacelle and the two discussed Pacelle’s latest book, The Bond.

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Meatless Mouthful–Zarine Khan Trying To Go Vegetarian

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 13th, 2012 in Actresses, Bollywood, Meatless Mouthful.

Zarine Khan

“I have been a non-vegetarian since birth, so it is not very easy. Hats off to vegetarian people… I am trying my level best to turn vegetarian. I eat whatever I want to in the right quantity and at the right time. If I have a craving for something, I make sure I indulge in it but not too much.”

Zarine Khan, during an interview where the Bollywood actress and model revealed she’d like to go meatless.

Photo: BollywoodHungama/Creative Commons

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Carrie Underwood “Vegas Magazine” Vegan Talk

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 13th, 2012 in Female Singers, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

Carrie Underwood "Vegas"

Carrie Underwood is gracing the cover of Vegas Magazine and inside she reveals one of her favorite places to eat is at a restaurant the King of Vegas himself turned into a vegan paradise.

“We always go out to eat when we’re in town. I love Lakeside at Wynn—Mr. Wynn is a vegan so they have a lot of stuff on the menu that I can eat,” said the country music singer who recently made the switch from vegetarian to vegan.

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Jessica Chastain

Watching what you eat is the equivalent to being forced to watch old videos of your parents “jive talk” dancing to the Bee Gees music of the 70s.

Yeah…not pleasant.

Award-winning actress Jessica Chastain has found a way to avoid such a pain by simply removing all animal products from her plate. Since going vegan, she claims she doesn’t have to watch her weight as much as the lifestyle naturally keeps her fit.

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Trisha Yearwood Is New Vegan Southern Cooking Hero

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 13th, 2012 in Female Singers, Film & TV, Food & Drink.

Trisha Yearwood

Trisha Yearwood‘s Food Network series on southern cooking, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, debuts Saturday, April 14 and country music loving vegetarian fans will be happy to learn much of the show will focus on plant-based cooking.

Yearwood’s mother was diagnosed with cancer and during the later stages of the disease she switched to a vegan diet, motivating Yearwood to do so as well.

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 13th, 2012 in Birthdays, Female Musicians, Female Singers.

Nellie McKay

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

Photo: Bridget Laudien/Creative Commons

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Amy Smart

The weather’s getting warmer and every earth loving vegan wants nothing more than to spend every minute in the great outdoors right?

Okay, so after you’ve bought enough calamine lotion that it’s worth buying stock in the company and the insect bites on your limbs make you look like a Center for Disease Control alert because somehow smallpox has made it back, even the biggest Mother Earth hippie may decide to enjoy nature by watching her spider plant in the great indoors.

But if you think bug bites are annoying to humans, just think of all the poor four-legged people who have to endure them. And most cats and dogs don’t know how to buy stock. Actress Amy Smart is looking to help change that by serving as the spokesperson for a campaign partnering the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and PetArmor to rid shelter pets of fleas and ticks.

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