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Viola Davis Wants Rhode Island To Help Elephants In Circuses

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 in Actresses, Animal Issues.

Viola Davis

Tony award winning actress Viola Davis would like her home state to take the leading role in protecting animals in circuses.

The star of hits like King Hedley II, Intimate Apparel and Fences wrote to legislators in the state asking them to support laws that would ban circuses in the state from using bullhooks on elephants.

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Chopped Food Network

One of the most renown vegan chefs in the U.S. can be seen on the Food Network’s Chopped next month competing in an event that will have both he and his competitors using plant-based protein.

Rich Landau of Philadelphia based Vedge was asked to use an ingredient he’s already quite familiar with.

The mystery ingredient of the night was tempeh.

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 in Actresses, Birthdays.

Lisa Edelstein

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

Photo: Raven Underwood/Creative Commons

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Green Leaf’s & Bananas iPad Giveaway For National Salad Month

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, May 20th, 2013 in Food & Drink, Restaurants.



May is Salad month! Celebrate Salad Month with the Green Leaf & Bananas iPad Giveaway!

Green Leaf’s serves made-to-order salads from their “Pick & Mix” salad bar, delicious wraps, grilled Panini sandwiches and hearty homemade soups. It uses only top-quality, fresh ingredients … a difference you can taste in every bite.

In honor of their crisp, fresh and savory salad offerings, Green Leaf’s will be giving away an iPad Mini chock full of savvy salad recipe apps to three lucky fans! Winners will be chosen on June 6, 2013!

Click the link, fill out the form, and you’ll be in the running to win one of 3 iPad® Mini’s chock full of appetizing apps!

For location details click here http://www.greenleafsalads.com/

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This sponsorship is brought to you by the Green Leaf’s & Bananas who we have partnered with for this promotion.

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VB6 Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman follows that old saying the breakfast is the most important vegan meal of the day.

During a recent interview with Take Two on 89.3 KPCC, Southern California’s Public Radio, Bittman gave a few suggestions on how anyone following his vegan before six flexitarian or completely vegan eating plan can fuel up for the first meal of the day.

“I like oatmeal with chopped vegetables and cilantro and scallions and soy sauce. I realize that’s not to everyone’s taste, but many people like savory breakfast. Smoothies, which I make with frozen fruit and silken tofu or soy milk or almond milk or oat milk or whatever. And fruit, I just eat it through the morning and it seems to do fine.”

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Frankie & The Heartstrings

Frankie & The Heartstrings Frankie Francis (say that fast five times) is celebrating National Vegetarian Week.

The lead singer of the group from North East England became a pescatarian shortly after finishing school.

“I don’t think we make a connection between meat and where it comes from. My reasons for taking meat out of my diet weren’t motivated by the treatment of animals, that came later, but I couldn’t have killed an animal and ate it,” Francis said.

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Portia de Rossi On Vegan Diet And Healthy Weight

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, May 20th, 2013 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi is a spokesperson for both the vegan lifestyle and eating disorder recovery.

Her book, Unbearable Lightness, briefly touches on how following a plant-based diet helped her overcome her obsessions with strict eating, as it taught her to appreciate how what she ate helped other–the animals–versus affected her own image.

During an interview with the Pittsburgh-Gazette, the subject of gaining weight on a vegan diet came up.

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Lisa Rinna had the perfect strategy for taking over the competition in Celebrity Apprentice.

Eat as vegan as possible.

Or at least do what Mary Lou Henner does.

“Mary Lou’s a strict vegan. When I came on the show, I thought, “How am I going to eat?” Last time there was no food and there was no water and we were all mad all the time,” Rinna said.

“I’m going to become a vegan a month before I go and I’m just going to eat everything Mary Lou does.”

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