Vegetarian Star

In an interview on The Leonard Lopate Show (the audio of which can be heard below), food author and flexitarian Mark Bittman shares a concern about getting sick from prepared, bagged produce that most of the public would naturally have after hearing of the outbreaks of illnesses over the years. Although he recommends a salad a day, he’s not so sure that salad should come from a bag.

“My only concern with the bagged stuff is whether or not it’s going to poison you or not. The convenience of cut up vegetables…what could be more convenient than that, as long as you’re not going to get salmonella from that. And I can’t answer that. I’d like to see our food safety system in a place where if people want to buy more conveniently prepared vegetables, they could do so without worrying about it.”

The convenience of bagged fruits and veggies have not come without consequence. There’s the occasional found frog leg in the frozen vegetables. The inedible glass pieces found in frozen peas. However, it’s usually contamination with e. coli or salmonella that leads to widespread sickness and fear of eating things good for you. Just when you thought it was okay to eat bagged spinach again, Consumer Reports recently conducted tests of 16 brands commonly found in stores and found, in the sanitation and contamination levels, there’s room for improvement.

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Joanne Rose

Joanne Rose appeared as a guest on The Jazzy Vegetarian‘s vegan radio show to discuss her web video series, “Vegan 101,” which launched the first episode as a humorous take on vegans dating, “Dating a Vegan.”

Rose has a new ecookbook out, Living In Harmony, which is a gluten-free, vegan recipe book available on the internet, at Veganvision.net.

“It’s makes it more green and easy for everybody to have access to,” Rose said.

Rose shared her recipe for Coconut Yogurt, which uses a Thai coconut, probiotic and flavors to suit your taste like fruit or chocolate.  Listen to the radio show to hear Rose discuss how to make it.

The interview begins around minute 12:00.

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Trey Parker has included a talk on DVD commentary on why he and Matt Stone chose to poke fun of Captain Paul Watson on a South Park episode titled Whale Whores.

If you can remember, the episode portrayed Watson and the Sea Shepherd crew in a less than positive light (is anyone portrayed positively on South Park?) and Parker says that although he and Stone are against whaling, they’re not cheering on Watson’s attempts.

“They come up with some big plan and then somehow they f*ck it up,” Parker says. Listen to how Parker explains, in his opinion, how.

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Brendan Brazier, a vegan athlete and author who created his own line of vegan energy bars and drinks, recently interviewed with Media Bistro’s Morning Media Menu show, where he discussed his idea to write a book, being vegan and his contributions to Moby‘s collection of essays, Gristle.

“In 2004, I wrote and self published a short book about my nutrition plan. I had been racing Iron Man triathlons professionally for seven years–eating a completely vegan diet. I was getting asked all the time where I got my protein, my calcium, my iron, and all these things. It came out in 2004, and did better than I expected. I expanded it and it was published by Penguin Canada.”

Listen below to hear the entire interview.

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You heard the horrible story of how Kanye West grabbed the mic from Taylor Swift‘s hand and totally stole the spotlight while she was giving her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Everybody’s got their opinion, including president Barack Obama.

After calling Kanye a “jackass,” Obama realizes his statement is going to be all over Twitter in 24 hours, and he jokingly says this act will bring similar scrutiny like his fly swatting incident that PETA drew attention to.

Obama’s not the only one who thinks Kanye’s a jerk. His fur loving ways have gotten him in trouble with other people.

Listen to the clip below cause there’s nothing more hilarious than the pres calling someone a donkey.

via peta.org

Obama Calls Kanye a Jackass sound bite

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