Vegetarian Star

Singer Nick Carter has finally told meat, “quit playing games with my heart.”

Carter and the rest of the Backstreet Boys have gone vegetarian for their upcoming tour with New Kids on the Block.

“We’re getting a lot of rest and have switched over to a vegetarian diet,” Carter told Celebuzz. “I’m trying to get my brain clear and ready for everything that’s to come.”

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Compassionate Farming Education Initiative and Planet CD NYC have collaborated with several popular musical artists to produce a CD that benefits several farm animal sanctuaries, including Woodstock Sanctuary, Happy Trails, Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Animal Acres and Kindred Spirits.

Home On The Range will feature artists such as Moby, Matisyahu, Nellie McKay and more.

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Wilco Coffee

Need some organic coffee to wash down your “She’s A Jar” Wilco Sky Blue Sandwich Company sandwich?

The Chicago based band Wilco now has an organic coffee named after them in addition to some deli sandwiches, available from their hometown roaster, Intelligentsia.

Organic Ethiopia Sidama Homecho Waeno has a description more passionate that country music lyrics:

“The aromatics of coffee blossom and violet make way for an incredibly graceful and elegant cup. The body has a light and silky quality, like fresh whipped cream, that beautifully compliments the ever-present note of citron, juniper berry and vanilla. As it cools, the cup blossoms into notes of confectioner’s sugar, rosehips, and soft raisin, resonating on a pristine finish with a touch of milk chocolate.”

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Troy Gentry, 1/2 of the musical duo Montgomery Gentry, has posted a hand-written apology for the incident involving him killing a black bear, the video of which has circulated the Internet and drawn ire from animal lovers everywhere.

However, it seems as if Troy is more sorry for simply doing something illegal to the bear that killing it in the manner in which he did and watching it slowly bleed to death. You be the judge.

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The Indigo Girls, vegetarian Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, sat down with Annie Barr from the The [i4c] Campaign, which aims to “create a better tomorrow by supporting change making entrepreneurs.”

Ray and Saliers discuss the future they see, which makes improves from today’s state of the treatment of woman and the environment.

“I foresee a change in energy policy,” said Sailers, and emphasized the United States moving away from traditional energy sources like fossil fuels and oils.

Saliers and Ray have worked with indigenous communities that rely on green energy such as solar and wind and she’d like to find ways for these communities to continue using these energy resources while reaping economic benefits at the same time.

Watch to hear Ray’s vision for how she would like to see women and children treated in the future.

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Australian twin sisters and singing duo The Veronicas posed with some props you’ll probably never find with them on stage–skinned, dead animals representing what’s left after the material obtained for making a fur coat is ripped off them.

“[W]earing fur is unnecessary and unacceptable,” explained Jess Origliasso.

With so many fur-free retailers located at your local mall or shopping center, is it really that hard to choose compassion over killing?

A behind the scenes interview with the sisters can be viewed below.

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Weezer is a largely vegetarian and vegan band, so you know the tour rider will be full of requests for good stuff.

The Smoking Gun was able to obtain a copy of the food requests while on tour. Lunch should always offer a “vegan alternative,” and suggestions such as a “vegetarian type soup,” or “vegetarian chili,” and veggie versions of hot dogs, hamburgers and other meat entrees are made.

The boys are attempting to make things eco-friendly, as the demand, “NO STYROFOAM ANYWHERE,” was printed in CAPS.  But one team of students at University of California San Diego found that paper cups actually require more energy and more materials to make, release more emissions into the atmosphere and use more waste. Oh, Say It Ain’t So!

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Beatles "Yesterday and Today" album cover

According to some sources, Paul McCartney wasn’t introduced to vegetarianism by Linda McCartney until the mid 70s. Sounds true, cause there would be no way Paul would have posed with raw meat cuts for the Beatles’ Yesterday and Today album cover in 1966.

The Telegraph has a story on several artists who’ve pulled a raw meat Gaga stunt and when the album was created, the Beatles wanted to make a statement about the Vietnam war by posing as butchers with chunks of meat and butchered dolls.

Advanced copies of the album created too much controversy, so the record label’s management ordered a new cover, but many of the originals still remain.

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