Vegetarian Star

The Discovery Channel is taking its green programming theme one step further by adding a series about the adventures of a vegan baker who’s satisfied sweet teeth of the stars.

Animal Planet will air Sweet Avenger, a 12 episode series about Danielle Konya, the owner of Vegan Treats, a vegan bakery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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The lone and lovely female judge of America’s Next Great Restaurant, Lorena Garcia, is making vegetarians who fly from the Miami International Airport a little happier and less hungrier.

Garcia, a former lawyer now turned celebrity chef, opened a restaurant in the Concourse D area of the airport that serves a variety of vegetarian-friendly options, including a veggie burger that’s doing great.

Garcia spoke to NBC Miami about her new venture, Cocina, which features mouth watering dishes like the Roasted Portabello, a sliced portobello with caramelized onions, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and pesto sauce on ciabatta bread.

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It’s a good day when mainstream brands of junk food recognize everybody needs healthier junk food.

Frito-Lay has announced it’s cleaning up the ingredient lists in more than 60 of its products, including Lay’s flavored potato chips, Tostitos tortilla chips, multigrain SunChips and Rold Gold pretzels.

Say good-bye to FD&C Red 40 and monosodium glutamate,  two items linked to hyperactivity in children and headaches and obesity, respectively. Instead, Frito-Lay performed taste tests among customers and found ways to incorporate items like molasses, malted barley flour and paprika to improve the flavors of its products.

Tim Fink, director of Frito-Lay’s seasonings team said it best when he said: “If the ingredient isn’t in a consumer’s cupboard, can we get it off the label?”

So what can we expect to see on the changed labels?

Here’s an example of the old and new labels on Frito-Lay’s Salt and Vinegar Chips.

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This year Farm Sanctuary celebrates 25 years of educating the public about animal welfare issues and pushing for reform.

In addition to its campaigns and acres of lands featuring free-roaming farm animals rescued from abused situations, Farm Sanctuary accomplished something significant to the vegetarian movement by convincing Burger King to put a vegetarian patty on the menu.

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Kentucky has brought us all kinds of good veggie things.

Like  Bourbon Barrel Foods‘ veg-friendly, anchovy-free vegetarian worcestershire sauce and soy sauce made from locally grown, non GMO soybeans.

And animal activist Ashley Judd.

And according to Hal Sparks, Lexington’s Alfalfa Restaurant is the next great veg accomplishment the Blue Grass state can be proud of.

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Biz Stone and his business partner and co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, are celebrating five years of saying it in 140 characters.

Stone was recently a guest on Conan O’Brien‘s show when the subject of some of Stone’s past Tweets came up. One of those Tweets was about Stone discovering Amtrak  offered a vegan burger. Stone Tweeted,”Wow, Amtrak serves a vegan burger! Nice.”

“I would not have that burger,” Conan said while laughing.

Well, that’s surely his choice, but we think Conan will miss out on some serious foodie fun!

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Dita Von Teese has always maintained she’s not going all out veggie.

And on an even more sour note, she told PETA she wasn’t about to advocate giving up fur when she offered to star in a PSA about spaying and neutering pets.

Sigh.

At least has not problem sharing her joy for vegetarian food when she’s eating it.

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We don’t have any doubts why United and not Continental has the slogan “Fly The Friendly Skies.” There was nothing friendly about the event that took place on a Newark bound flight when a woman did not receive a vegetarian meal she found suitable.

Maybe Continental should make its slogan, “If it has a face, throw it in our face.”

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