Vegetarian Star

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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Kristen Bell stars in the music video for Yeasayer’s song “Madder Red,” a single released from their album Odd Blood in February.

Wired says the video story is a play on the actress’ animal rights and vegetarian background.

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Tomorrow on Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Sean Lennon will perform at a benefit concert for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary in Willow, New York.

The Ghost of Saber Tooth Tiger is a musical project featuring Lennon and his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl. Their first album, Acoustic Sessions, is due out October 26 on Chimera Music.

Proceeds from the concert go directly toward Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary to care for the 200 farm animals that have been rescued from abused, neglectful or abandoned situations.

Gates open at 5:00 PM and tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the door. For more information, visit Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.

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Colbie Caillat and members of her band, including Justin Young, made a stop on their tour to Farm Sanctuary, not to play for the animals but to get acquainted with some of creatures guitarist Young has helped campaign for through his Twitter and other media.

Young, who last time we heard, was aspiring to become a vegetarian for environmental reasons, expressed interest in helping Farm Sanctuary during it’s Ohio Ballot Initiative Campaign, which sought to provide changes to legislation for farm animal treatment like banning certain types of crating and making penalties for cock fight more severe.

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VegNews magazine interviewed Maroon 5‘s bassist Mickey Madden and learned about his journey to veganism as he gradually gave up animals products, starting in high school. These days he finds it easy to keep up what he started as he says all the band members are supportive of his diet, making it easy to eat well on the road. Oh, and that Tweet sent by Adam Levine on aiming to be a vegetarian after the steak indulgence–it probably doesn’t happen too often, as Madden says Levine is 85% vegan.

“We’re all extremely health-conscious and everyone is really vegan-friendly. Adam [Levine], the singer in the band, in particular will eat, I’d say, about 85-percent vegan for health reasons. All the band members are meat-eaters, but they’re not close-minded and [they] understand the principles of veganism. It makes a big difference. It’s so strange, I obviously have reasons that relate to the world at large for my veganism, but it’s so much a personal choice and a matter of personal preference that I’ve never understood the reaction to it that some people have.”

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