Vegetarian Star

Emily Deschanel recently interviewed with Good.

The Bones actress has been a vegan since she was a teenager, and is involved with animal activism as well, her better known campaign being promoting the Great Ape Protection Act that would end using chimpanzees in medical laboratories and allow them to retire in sanctuaries.

Here are a few highlights from the interview.

Favorite vegan dessert:
I am obsessed with the peanut butter cups from Alica Silverstone’s new book called The Kind Diet. So tasty! I use raw almond butter.

On convincing people to go vegetarian/vegan:
There is a book called The China Study which discusses the largest nutritional study in history. They set out to determine that animal protein was healthy, but the results were the opposite. Sometimes people need to be grabbed by the health angle. I like to let facts speak for themselves.

On natural remedies versus medication:
If I get a headache the first thing I do is drink some water or coconut water. Hydration is a common cause for headaches. Then I check to see if I have been clenching my jaw. I look for the cause instead of covering the symptoms up with medication. Modern medicine has saved many people’s lives, but I do believe in doing research and looking for alternatives before taking something.

For the entire interview with Emily, visit Good.

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Zoe Saldana, who is currently starring in the film The Losers, offered her mother’s recipe for Moro de Guandules (rice with pigeon peas) as part of the Mother’s Day special in In Style magazine.

It’s always nice to take a recipe that calls for meat ingredients and easily make substitutions, and that’s exactly what you can do with this recipe by swapping the chicken bouillon for vegetable.

Rapunzel makes a wonderful vegan version with or without added sea salt.

Look for the recipe in the May issue of In Style, which goes on sale this Friday or jump here to get started now.

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Lisa Edelstein "Prevention"

Lisa Edelstein credits growing up in a Kosher household for the ease in the transition from eating meat to becoming vegetarian.

“If you’re raised with a food restriction, it’s not that difficult to have another kind of food restriction,” she told Prevention, according to That’s Fit.

The House actress is featured in the June 2010 issue, which goes on sale May 4.

She said she was “never a big meat eater,” but once had a dream about eating chicken that turned into a sort of nightmare once the parts she was eating turned human.

“But in the dream, I understood that it was actually miniature human legs and arms. My brain was connecting muscle and bone to another animal. Once I had made that connection, it just wasn’t something I wanted to eat.”

Lisa loves cooking non human and non animal dishes in her kitchen that incorporate vegetables like broccoli, string beans and avocado.

One of her favorite dishes is lemongrass soup, something she says works similarly to chicken soup, as it makes you feel, “really good when you don’t feel well.”

The next time you’ve got the sniffles, try the recipe out to see if it’s what the doctor should order.

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

• Jenna Ushkowitz (24)

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Female First has written an article on the “Things You Didn’t Know” about Miley Cyrus.

Ok, so after you admit you don’t care to know, one of the “secrets” is that Miley is “vegetarian, doesn’t eat anything green and her favourite colours are green, pink and purple.”

Green. Of course. That’s why she won’t eat anything that color.

Maybe FF has the latest update, cause last time we checked, Miley said she had tried being vegetarian, but couldn’t get enough of the Double Doubles and fries.

Maybe the recent change is from playing her vegetarian character, Ronnie, in The Last Song.

Then again, maybe it was that Hannah Montana personality that didn’t eat meat.

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Alyssa Milano is a real vegetarian, but her co-star Josh Larson‘s character, Shawn, tried to fake being one to pick up a girl on a recent episode of Romantically Challenged.

Who knew vegetarian pick up lines existed?

Shawn was supposed to pick Perry up from the dentist, but instead he meets a chick and pretends to be the handsome meatless chap who knows how to solve the water crisis in India.

Perry is left dialing for a cab, talking from the one side of his mouth that’s operable.

If you’re going to use vegetarian points to snag the girl, at least arm yourself with some good facts about meat, plant crops and water, courtesy of Greenpeace.

• “It can take up to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does to produce protein from plants. According to author John Robbins in his book The Food Revolution, you could save more water by not eating a pound of California beef than you could by not showering for an entire year.”
• “Livestock operations generate roughly 130 times as much bodily waste as the entire human population of the United States, which makes its way into the environment without going through the sewage treatment systems found in our cities and towns. This untreated waste pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.”

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Isabel Lucas has been voted Australia’s Sexiest Vegetarian in a contest held by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Lucas beat competitors like Missy Higgins, Imogen Bailey, Andrew G and Xavier Rudd.

Lucas went vegetarian after watching the documentary about the use of animals in the food, fashion and entertainment industry, Earthlings.

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There was a rumor going around not long ago that Glee star Chris Colfer put bacon bits in vegan co-star Lea Michele‘s salad.

Rest assured, they’re completely false.

Colfer told PR.com:

“No, I didn’t. I should have though. No, I was kidding. A tabloid actually posted an article about Lea, about how [she] eats nothing but pork and ribs and hamburgers and all that. She couldn’t have been more mortified because [she’s] a hardcore vegetarian. So I just wanted to post a Tweet at her expense. As funny as it does sound, I couldn’t. She probably would have gotten sick. But it is pretty funny to think about.”

Frontier, a manufacturer of organic spices, has a vegetarian bacon bit product available, Bac’ Uns, made from soy flour and other vegan spices.

The price is similar to what you’d pay for Frontiers other organic spices and reviews at an online vegan product store, Vegan Essentials are mostly positive.

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