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“The Hollywood Reporter” Features Celebrities And Their Pets (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, August 1st, 2013 in Animal Issues, Videos.

The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive feature on several celebrities and their four-legged best friends.

Snoop Lion, Chelsea Handler, Ryan Kavanaugh, Diane Warren and Bob Greenblatt introduce both themselves and their pets in this short clip.

The stars have multiple pets at home, and some of them have “temporaries,” taking in rescues from time to time.

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Courtney Stodden Promotes Veggie Wieners At PETA Event

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, August 1st, 2013 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

Courtney Stodden

Courtney Stodden stood on a corner in sunny Hollywood, California to promote a very sexy pro-vegetarian message.

Dressed in lettuce leaves, Stodden played her part well, noshing on veggie dogs and encouraging people around to do the same.

Pink’s Hot Dogs, a restaurant with dogs named after famous people, has a vegetarian selection available in addition to its meaty offerings and supplied the faux wieners.

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Tia Mowry Tamera Mowry

Tia Mowry and her sister Tamera Mowry have teamed up to offer women a cruelty-free choice of creams and other products designed to cater to the special needs of pregnant and lactating women.

The siblings who starred in the popular sitcom Sister Sister, have created their own company, Need Brands, which manufactures products that are natural, herbal-based and vegan.

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U.S. Capitol Hosts Adopt A Pet Day At Cannon House Office Building

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 in Animal Issues, Politicians.

Bo Obama Barack Obama

Bo Obama may rule the White House, but several other dogs and cats took over the Cannon House office building earlier this week to participate in Capitol Hill’s Adopt a Pet Day.

The event was sponsored raise awareness to the pet adoption and was a joint effort by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus.

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Jane Velez-Mitchell took a moment to discuss a very important issue in the animal welfare community on her HLN show.

An amendment to the Farm Bill, also known by the name of the Iowa representative who introduced it, the King amendment, could potentially undo several advancements made in protecting the welfare of animals on farms.

Essentially, it could override laws individual states have created to protect animals from abuse.

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Denzel Washington

“I’m a vegetarian now but sometimes I’ll cheat and have chicken. When I did the play Fences (on Broadway) it just kind of woke me up to this idea of getting back to the basics in every way, and I made a commitment to just work harder and eat good.”

Denzel Washington, on what motivated him to adopt a plant-based diet.

Photo: Georges Biard/Creative Commons

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Bill Clinton Discusses Vegan Diet With AARP Magazine

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 in Food & Drink, Politicians.

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton discussed the diet that is keeping him healthy in his sixth decade of life with AARP, the premier lifestyle and information magazine for senior citizens.

Like many readers of the publication, one of Clinton’s main motivations for adopting a healthier lifestyle was to enjoy his future grandchildren.

“I just decided that I was the high-risk person, and I didn’t want to fool with this anymore. And I wanted to live to be a grandfather,” said Clinton. “So I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.”

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Robert Redford Fighting Horse Slaughter In The US

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 in Actors, Animal Issues.

Robert Redford

Robert Redford is joining in the campaign to prevent horse slaughter from being reinstated in the United States.

Together with former New Mexico Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, the actor announced the formation of a foundation that supports animal welfare groups like the Humane Society of the United States and Front Range Equine Rescue taking legal action to prevent this.

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