Vegetarian Star

February is Black History Month and a great time to not only celebrate civil rights, but highlight the dozens of black community leaders, celebrities and other famous persons who either follow or have followed a diet and promote animal rights as well.

The Reverend Al Sharpton, who once weighed over 300 pounds, found following a mostly vegetarian diet helped him lose over 100 pounds.

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Steve-O has an interview with Rolling Stone magazine where he discusses his vegan diet, his work with animal rescue and welfare organization Farm Sanctuary and his thoughts on letting everyone know how their burgers actually make it to their favorite restaurants.

Here are a few highlights:

On craving a cheeseburger every now and then
Sure, man. I miss fuckin’ Whoppers, but I also miss eight-balls and ganja. But I find being a vegan so rewarding that it’s worth it for me.

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First they’re eating vegan and now they’re opening the firehouse to rescue dogs?

Chicago firefighters may be the best ever!

The NBC hit television series Chicago Fire has added a four-legged character to the drama featuring Firehouse 51– a lovable dog named Pouch that was found during a trip with the Chicago Fire Department last summer.

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Meet Sam.

He has eyebrows.

He’s a popular cat with a growing following on Instagram and a soon to be up and running website, Sam Has Eyebrows.

Sam’s human-like appearance is probably responsible for much of his newfound popularity online, as a cat with an expression similar to the next door neighbor is likely to elicit more fondness from other humans. (As long as they like that next door neighbor.)

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Casey Affleck is backing a new initiative to improve the living conditions of millions of animals living on farms.

The Massachusetts Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act asks Congress to pass a law, “prohibiting veal crates, gestation crates, and battery cages, generally used to confine chickens.

Affeck wrote a letter on behalf of three animal welfare organziations–Farm Sanctuary, the ASPCA, and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals–advocating this change.

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The Onion has published a hilarious piece mocking the “humane meat” industry.

In “We Raise All Our Beef Humanely On Open Pasture And Then We Hang Them Upside Down And Slash Their Throats,” livestock farmers pledge to deliver many things to today’s environmentally conscious consumer and animal welfare advocate, including the, “highest quality beef from cows that are healthy, active, and eventually suspended fully conscious inside a facility thick with hot, blood-choked air and the frantic bellows of dangling, profoundly fearful animals.”

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Kristen Bell is expecting and both her vegan diet and her experience being with child has made her consider the conditions many mother pigs endure on farms.

In a letter to the National Pork Producers Council, Bell asks that the industry do away with gestation crates that allow the pigs very little room to move freely and live naturally.

Bell says that although she loves being pregnant, she “can’t imagine how awful it would be under conditions like these.”

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“I work with animal rights, so maybe I’ll go and live on a ranch with rescue animals some day.”

—Pamela Anderson, vegetarian actress who’s lent her name to many campaigns for animals, including anti-fur and ending commercial seal hunts.

Maybe her future housemates will be eating fresh cranberries like the turkeys she fed on Thanksgiving.

Photo: Darren Stone/Creative Commons

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