Vegetarian Star

“Americans toss out nearly every other bite of food. We squander up to 40 percent of the nation’s food supply each year — throwing away, on average, 20 pounds per person per month — while making excuses for our wastefulness. This is shameful enough. Now consider the nightmare that billions of animals — who feel anxiety, fear and pain every bit as profoundly as we do — endure on factory farms, in transit to slaughter and at the slaughterhouse itself. Nowadays, they are confined to cages and crates, their babies are taken away from them and they are kicked and prodded and deprived of everything that makes their lives worth living just so that we can take their milk or kill them for their flesh. And then we toss half of it all into the trash. This may be one of the most compelling reasons yet to go vegan.”

—Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council on food waste.

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Glee is all about rooting for the underdog. Or at least singing for him.

Kevin McHale, who plays soul-singing “Artie Abrams” on the hit Fox television series, is singing praises for animals in shelters all across the world.

Posing with his rescue dog Sophie, McHale reminds all of us we should “Always root for the underdog” and adopt our next pet versus buying one from a pet store.

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Adrien Brody has thrown in his support for a plan to take horse-drawn carriages off the streets of New York and replace them with eco-friendly model classic cars.

His decision comes after learning of yet another accident involving a horse-drawn carriage in Manhattan where the horse was frightened by traffic, taking off suddenly and eventually overturning with passengers inside.

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The first ever Internet Cat Film Festival was a huge success, drawing a crowd of over 10,000 feline lovers.

Festival Organizer Katie Czarniecki Hill said the idea started out as a joke.

“It is an experiment,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “It will be interesting to see if people think it is silly, or great, or a waste of time. But I like the idea of everyone admitting they like cat videos.”

A total of 79 videos were shown at the Minneapolis event, handpicked from about 10,000 entries.

This year’s winner in the people’s choice award was Henri 2, Paw de Deux, which won the “Golden Kitty” award. Henri 2 spends his moments lamenting the everyday problems cat endure, such as the pains of living with another “idiot” cat that annoys him by begging for cheeseburgers and the fact he’s not paid enough attention. Self-confident and secure with his body image, he pokes fun of humans who fear the bathroom scale.

Watch this Golden Kitty award winner below, complete with captions.

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Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson has experienced the tragic loss of his brother, Stephen Michael Watson, to cancer.

Watson took the time to remember his brother on a recent post online, discussing both his family loyalty and support of Sea Shepherd missions.

“My brother was devoted to Sea Shepherd and for years hosted fundraisers in Toronto and London, Ontario. His eldest son Sean first joined the crew of the Sea Shepherd II when he was fourteen on our drift net campaigns. His youngest daughter Hillary will soon be joining the crew of the Steve Irwin. Stephen himself participated in an important but legal secret mission for Sea Shepherd and was instrumental in its success.”

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Paul Ryan, vice-presidential running mate for Mitt Romney on the Republican side, will be using veteran speech writer Matthew Scully for his upcoming appearances.

Scully has a long history of writing for conservatives, including Sarah Palin and George W. Bush.

He’s also a member of the vegan party and has written some moving work on how animals should be treated.

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Kellie Pickler was a guest on The Chew this week.

In addition to discussing canning vegetables and her experiences on an elephant sanctuary, the country singer named one of PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarians helped host Mario Batali make a vegetarian pizza.

The theme for the show was everything fresh from the farm and Batali made use of vegetables you might find at your local farmer’s market with his Grilled Pizza with Shaved Zucchini Salad.

Yesterday you saw a brief clip of Kellie’s appearance on the show. Here’s the full segment, beginning around minute 12:30, of Kellie discussing her love of canning vegetables, animal welfare and more below. Don’t forget to grab the recipe.

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Kellie Pickler was a guest on The Chew today where she shared her memories of watching her neighbor can vegetables from her backyard garden, substituting vegetarian ingredients for animal ones and her experiences volunteering on an elephant sanctuary.

“We used to make tomato dumplings with the canned tomatoes. Instead of the chicken, you use home-grown garden tomatoes,” Pickler said.

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