Vegetarian Star

Nikki Reed doesn’t just play a “vegetarian” vampire as Rosalie in the popular Twilight saga movies. She’s one in real life. Vegetarian, not vampire, that is.

The actress celebrated her 24th birthday at the Marquee Dayclub at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas this weekend with her husband, brother and friends.

Haute Living reports Reed enjoyed fresh summer salads and veggie “sushi” rolls and a vegan chocolate cake from Red Velvet Cafe.

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John Salley has partnered with vegan wine company The Vegan Vine Wines to help educate consumers on the animal products used in the wine filtration process.

The basketball legend will take part ownership and serve as an ambassador in the family-owned and operated Clos LaChance Wines brand.

As both a vegan and wine lover, I was very surprised to learn about the use of animal products in the vinification process,” said Mr. Salley. “I had no idea.”

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At least someone is following the advice to stop eating meat in public.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi dined with President Barack Obama and several other leaders in Washington, including House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev).

The Atlantic reports Pelosi ordered a “vegan sub with sprouts” from Taylor Gourmet, an Italian deli and market specializing in Philadelphia-style hoagies that happens to have a separate vegetarian menu with several sandwich options.

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New York Times food writer Mark Bittman visited a veggie chicken factory to get an insider’s view of how faux meat is crafted.

Unlike most chicken factories, Ethan Brown’s Savage River Farms research facility is lacking animals pumped full of hormones and housed in crowded conditions. Instead, the Maryland factory contains an extruder that delivers a chicken-tasting product containing soy and pea protein.

Bittman tests the product both plain and in wraps and concludes he can’t tell the difference. And he’s being paid to do so.

“When you take Brown’s product, cut it up and combine it with, say, chopped tomato and lettuce and mayonnaise with some seasoning in it, and wrap it in a burrito, you won’t know the difference between that and chicken. I didn’t, at least, and this is the kind of thing I do for a living.”

Watch the five minute segment here.

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NASCAR and IndyCar owners are being praised by PETA for teaming up with Levy Restaurants to offer vegan food to its fans at several racing tracks, including Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

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CNBC’s How I Made My Millions premieres its 16th episode on May 14th at 9:00 pm/ET on CNBC with the tale of a vegetarian entrepreneur who hit big with her line of cat and dog food products, Stella & Chewy’s.

Founder Marie Moody developed the idea for pet food after taking some advice from a veterinarian on how to help her newly rescued sick puppy. The food not only helped Chewy recover, but it benefited her other dog, Stella, as well.

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Burger King has once again taken a step to provide more ethical, humanely produced food.

The fast food giant that claimed to be the first to sell a vegetarian burger nationwide has committed to sourcing 100% of its eggs from cage-free suppliers and purchasing pork from suppliers that have pledged to phase out gestation crates for pigs.

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Soon vegetarians and vegans can have their strawberry frappucinos and smoothies sans insects.

Starbucks has announced that it will phase out the use of cochineal extract, an ingredient obtained from a female bug, and switch to lycopene, a plant-based coloring derived from tomatoes, for its strawberry flavored frappucinos and smoothies.

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