Vegetarian Star

The all vegetarian band Rise Against is offering a prize to its fans in exchange for a little animal activism.

In protest of Canada’s annual seal slaughter, the band is asking people to gather signatures for the petition to stop the hunts.

For each city they’re playing on their summer tour in Canada with Rancid, the fan with the most signatures will win the package of free tickets to the show as well as a meet and greet with the band.

According to PETA, over 200,000 seals were slaughtered last year.

The organization is continuing to keep the heat on Canada even beyond the band’s tour, hoping to put the spotlight on the country as the 2010 Winter Olympics nears.

“The international outcry against Canada’s shameful seal slaughter grows louder every year, and now Rise Against have added their powerful voice to the chorus,” says Peta2 Assistant Director Dan Shannon. “If Canada wants to clean up its world image for the Olympics, the first thing it should do is call off the massacre.”

For more information, visit Peta2.org.

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Daily-foot

Okay, so their feet look small on stage and this picture is kinda blurry, but this tidbit came from none other than the Macbeth headquarters, so you know it’s gotta be fact.

Switchfoot has been updating their blog, The Daily Foot, with photos of concerts and the boys just chilling out and having fun.

Some of the photos uploaded show the band rocking in Macbeth vegan shoes!

Several musical acts like Tegan and Sara, Frank Iero, and Missy Higgins have used Macbeth’s cruelty free vegan shoes to support their feet while jumping and lunging during concerts.

Including shoes designed by celebrities, Macbeth has quite a selection of vegan footwear. 

With so many trendy shoes available without animal products, why would anyone ever want to buy leather?

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We’ve already stated our position on asking a man to change his name for a PETA campaign. Now it looks like PETA Jr., or peta2.org, is doing the same thing, and created a list of bands that should change their names from animal unfriendly to friendly ones.

We agree there are some bands out there with names that sound oh so ugly to the vegetarian’s ear. What’s worse is that some of these bands are vegetarian!

Frank Iero, MacBeth vegan shoe boy, is in a band called Leathermouth. Ewww! Peta2 thinks “Pleathermouth” is better for the image. Please pass this on to their agents.

Meatloaf, who at least once dabbled in vegetarianism, could sell more albums to vegans if he called himself “Lentil Loaf.”

The creepiest of all? Cattle Decapitation, a death metal band full of vegetarians, who PETA thinks should rename themselves “Cattle Appreciation.” Cattle Decapitation? We’re with you on that one, PETA!

We can’t forget that caring for animals is just as important as not eating them, and the Stray Cats are overpopulating the music scene. Please takes those guys to the vet, so they can be the “Spayed Cats.”

For the remaining list of bands who should undergo name overhaul, visit peta2.org.

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PETA

Canadian gluttons unite! Silverstein band is challenging you to eat as many KFC vegan faux chicken sandwiches and tell them about it.

The guys in the band held their own eating competition between themselves and video taped the experience. Guitarist Josh Bradford took home to pig-out trophy with a whopping six sandwiches.

KFC Canada is so far the only KFC to offer the vegetarian version of their classic chicken sandwich, this coming after protests from many, including Pamela Anderson, to treat chickens more humanely before and during slaughter.

If you think you can beat Josh, or even if you come close, then take a photograph of yourself in action stuffing your face with a vegan KFC sandwich in a most creative way and enter to win by emailing the photos to StreetTeam@peta2.com by March 31st or snail mail them to

peta2’s Silverstein Contest
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510
USA

If you can’t make it to KFC, you can fix vegan food at home and capture yourself being a glutton and send them to the same address.

The owner of the most creative photo wins a Hitachi DZGX5020A DVD Camcorder.

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Actor and comedian Jimmy Fallon will be replacing Late Night host Conan O’Brien next spring on March 2nd, and he’s picked The Roots to be his house band.

Scratch, Rahzel, Black Thought, ?uestlove, Hub, and Malik B. all once recorded a video advocating vegetarianism. The band has been through some changes, Black Thought and ?uestlove are the only great men remaining who appeared in that video and it’s not certain whether other band members are vegetarian, but The Roots has generally been thought of, as a veg band.

Incidentally, Kevin Eubanks, a musician on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, is also a vegetarian, and was voted the sexiest male vegetarian in 2007.

Break out the hummus and pita chips. Late night TV just keeps getting veggier.

Source: Paste Magazine

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No thumbs up on this one, RZA.

Most members of the Wu-Tang Clan hip hop group are either vegetarian (RZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Masta Killa) or have been outspoken on animal rights issues in the past (GZA). So when the group collaborated with Fila shoes to produce a shoe with their name branded on it, the Wu-Tang Weather Tech Boot, you’d think it’d be cruelty free as well. No such luck.

Along with it’s “molded rubberized vamp, d-ring lacing system and padded ankle collars,” the Wu-Tang Weather Tech Boot contains an “oiled suede upper.” Boo to the Wu!

So while we were hoping RZA and his boys would follow the steps of other veggie metrosexual men and associate himself with a vegan shoe, like Frank Iero and his MacBeth’s, he’s let us down this time. This is even grosser than his veggie burger with fried egg on waffles.

Thanks Vegblog

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When you go to a concert, you expect to be able to buy some CDs, posters, and a T-shirt if you have any money left over after beer funds have been allotted. If you go to a Rise Against concert, frontman Tim McIlrath and his boys will give you something for free: PETA Pamphlets containing information on going vegetarian.

“Kids are taking the time to do research on their own after they hear about us being vegetarian,” band member Joe Principe said, in an interview with Mercury News. “We want them to think for themselves, so it’s totally rewarding when they come to that conclusion on their own.”

The same types of brochures convinced Principe to turn vegetarian after reading some PETA literature distributed at a punk concert. All four members of the band Zach Blair, Brandon Barnes, Tim McIlrath, and Joe Principe are vegetarian.

Photo: Tim Harmon

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The Foo Fighters made a special guest appearance on Bravo’s Top Chef.

The band presented the elimination challenge to the food teams, which was to prepare a Thanksgiving feast for everybody in their crew, a total of over 60 people, some of which were vegetarian. The winning team would be invited to a concert later that night.

Team “Sexy Pants,” served the Foo Fighters and other judges vegan cornbread stuffing, which went over quite well and was preferred to the other team’s creations.

Check out lots of pictures of “Foo Fighters Thanksgiving.”

“Top Chef” is television series on the Bravo Network where chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges and are eliminated by judges who are professional chefs or otherwise notable people in the food industry.

via The Celebrity Cafe

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