Vegetarian Star

The Office‘s Jenna Fischer hosted the 3rd annual Furball at the Skirball this weekend in Los Angeles. The event benefited Kitten Rescue, a Los Angeles based organization that aids in kitten rescue and adoption.

A vegetarian dinner was served to guests who also enjoyed live entertainment, a silent auction and a film about Kitten Rescue. This was Fischer’s 2nd time hosting the event, but she’s no stranger to cat rescue, having volunteered for the organization in the past.

“I started working with them [Kitten Rescue] in 2001,” Fischer said. “I worked with them for two or three years as a foster parent. You open up your home for a cat or kitten that’s been rescued from a shelter or abandoned, and you rehabilitate them and treat them like your own pet for a short period of time, and then the organization helps you find that cat a permanent home.”

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“Baboons are highly social and extremely intelligent animals that do not belong in circuses where they are forced to live in cramped quarters and suffer physical abuse and neglect at the hands of underqualified trainers and circus operators. Nothing could be more inhumane and callous than forcing animals to endure a life of suffering simply for human amusement and profit. The Bolivian Government has set an excellent example with this progressive decision and I hope that Bolivia’s actions will influence other countries to implement similar legislation.”

—Bob Barker, vegetarian and animal welfare activist who provided financial support to move Tilin, an 18-year-old male Hamadryras baboon, from a circus in Bolivia to an animal sanctuary. Bolivia passed the world’s first ban of animals in circuses last year, giving operators a year to comply and find new homes for the animals.

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Nigel Lythgoe has learned through co-hosting So You Think You Can Dance that some of the best performance talent may originate from untrained, raw talent

And he recently learned you don’t have to scout a breeder or kennel for some of the best talent in the form of a canine companion.

When Lythgoe told a friend he planned to go to a breeder for a dog, the friend responded by saying, “I don’t know why you want to go through a breeder anyway. There are too many dogs in the world that haven’t got homes that are already alive.”

As the saying goes, “Friends don’t let friends drive to breeders.”

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DC Veg Fest. Credit: dcvegfest.com

The nation’s capitol will get a little greener tomorrow as the annual D.C. Veg Fest which will bring great speakers, great food and a great way for anyone with an interest in vegetarianism to get acquainted with the lifestyle.

Sponsored by both Compassion Over Killing and The Vegetarian Society of D.C., the festival taking place on Saturday, September 11th from 12 PM to 6PM at the University Yard of Georgetown University will feature well known speakers like vegan chef Tal Ronnen and Miss D.C. Mackenzie Green.

The first 400 people to stop by the information booth will get a D.C. Veg Fest 2010 commemorative bag filled with veggie goodies from food to beauty products.

For more information and to keep up with the countdown blog, visit DCVegFest.

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Betty White Comic Book

Betty White has been immortalized with the lives of other female celebrities like Michelle Obama and Princess Di as Bluewater Productions has produced a comic book detailing the actress’ life, Female Force: Betty White.

White is known for her love of animals and the comic has a picture of her as the Statue of Library, holding her dog in one hand and the torch in another.

Another picture shows Betty as a young child bringing a stray animal home and wanting to keep it.

Best known for her role in The Golden Girls, White has won 7 Emmys and has an acting career that spans over 70 years.

The comic is scheduled for release in November of this year and is expected to cost $3.99.

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When vegetarian celebrities partner with not so vegetarian companies, it’s one of those C & C Music Factory moments: Things That Make You Go Hmmm.

Carrie Underwood is the new face of Olay skin products and according to USA Today, is the first “celebrity ambassador” for the brand.

Olay is owned by Proctor & Gamble, a company, that continues to test a small percentage of its products on animals.

PETA’s Caring Consumer Database lists Olay as a product tested on animals and the UK Times Online says a preservative found in some Olay products, butylparaben, was tested on pregnant rats in the U.S. in 2004.

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If you love peanut butter and animals, grab a few jars of the nut butter designed to celebrate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ 30th anniversary, PeTA Butter.

With a name so quirky, PeTA Butter could almost be interpreted as an April Fools’ post, but these 16 oz. jars that sell for about $5 were crafted by the folks at New York based Peanut Butter & Co, a maker of 10 varieties of peanut butter flavors, each given unique and delicious sounding names like Dark Chocolate Dreams, White Chocolate Wonderful, Cinnamon Raisin Swirl and Mighty Maple.

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“I was raised in an eastern Canadian fishing village right on the Maine border, called St. Andrews. I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all so I became quite angry and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps. So that was really my first venture into activism.”

–Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson, on his first memory of animal activism to The Faster Times.

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