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NASCAR Pets Calendar

Greyhounds aren’t as fast as Tony Stewart‘s car, but they’re still impressive little creatures.

Greg Biffle is a NASCAR driver who, along with his wife Nicole, founded the Greg Biffle Foundation to promote the well-being of animals through the automotive racing industry.

Biffle has published a NASCAR Pets calendar featuring drivers like Biffle, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Tony Stewart with their non-human family members. Proceeds go to a variety of animal welfare organizations, such as spay and neuter clinics, the Humane Society and no-kill shelters.

The calendar sells for $13.99 and is available from Biffle’s Foundation site.

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Kaley Cuoco

“The Big Bang Theory” actress Kaley Cuoco turned a painful experience into one that benefits the Humane Society of the United States.

Cuoco fell off her horse, which resulted in her being hospitalized with an open compound leg fracture. Ouch!

While her boyfriend, Christopher French of the group Annie Automatic, was at her bedside, she asked him to play a song to cheer her up. The two later recorded “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” together as a duet.

“Kaley and I are happy to be able to help draw attention to the important issue of animal adoption and rescue and raise a little money, 99¢ at a time,” said French.

The song is available from both iTunes and Amazon.com’s MP3 downloads and all proceeds benefit the HSUS. You can also view the two singing below.

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Joshua Gomez, who plays Chuck’s co-worker Morgan Grimes on the NBC television series about a computer store geek who accidentally downloads government secrets to his brain, “Chuck,” is a vegetarian in real life.

So when it came time to devour the meatball sub sandwich from Subway presented to him during a scene on “Chuck  Vs. The Leftovers,” we got a little nervous when he was about to chow down. Was the sandwich stuffed with wheatballs instead? Luckily (or perhaps a little unluckily for Morgan), his dinner is interrupted by an unexpected customer carrying a weapon.

Subway doesn’t offer much for vegans except a Veggie Delight with no cheese on Italian bread. If you’d like to see that change, maybe you should look into Compassion Over Killing’s “We Love Subway” campaign.

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Pamela Anderson Playboy January 2011

Pamela Anderson‘s lucky 13th Playboy Cover looks incredibly beautiful and tasteful.

The actress who calls herself “just a sex symbol” proved she’s more than a hot face and bod. Anderson donated the money from the shoot to Waves 4 Water, an organization that provides filters to produce clean drinking water in countries with problems accessing it.

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The Tom’s of Maine Wicked Fresh! Live Chat series went a little different than expected. While we were hoping “Top Chef All Stars” Carla Hall would do some cooking, she actually spent the hour answering questions from Facebook on food.

Which is still great, because Carla answered a question from Vegetarian Star about her favorite vegetarian or vegan dish and gave our site some love in the process!

Carla said right now she is really into root vegetables, so she loves to take rutabagas, turnips, carrots and parsnips and roast them in garlic and olive oil, throwing in some onions and simmering it all in vegetable broth. Then, toss in some tofu cubes. She also loves butternut squash soup and gave some great advice for a non-dairy substitute for cream.

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Bob Barker has been named an honorary fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Barker is the first person in the entertainment industry to receive the award.

Through Barker’s generous donations, hundreds of law students at prestigious schools around the country can study animal law, including at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Northwestern, Duke, Georgetown, Virginia and Columbia.

“We cannot change the world for animals without also changing people’s ideas about animals. Almost single-handedly Bob’s sagacity and generosity have – in little more than a decade – propelled animals from being a marginal issue into the academic mainstream. This is a colossal achievement”, said Professor Linzey, Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Barker joins a line of several honorary fellows that include Nobel Laureate for Literature, Professor J. M. Coetzee and Madame Jeanne Marchig, founder of the Marchig Trust for Animal Welfare.

Photo: PR Photos

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Some musicians get bras and panties thrown at them on stage. Michael Franti (who gave us this lovely interview months ago) would prefer to have the ladies (and the guys) shoes. Being the charming fellow he is, he gets what he wants.

In an interview with CBS’ Early Show weather anchor Dave Price (lover of vegan chocolates), Franti discusses his work with the charity Soles 4 Souls. He’s on a mission to collect 100,000 pairs of shoes at his concerts. Unfortunately, not all fans wait to donate at the bins.

“Sometimes I’ll say ‘Well, we need shoes,’ and I’ll explain to people what we’re doing and people start throwing them on stage and I start having to dive,” Franti explains.

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Vegan comedian and writer Carol Leifer will be attending Compassion Over Killing’s (COK) 15th anniversary celebration this Saturday, December 4th, 2010 at the Silver Spring Regional Center in Silver Springs, Maryland. Will you?

The event includes an all you can eat cruelty-free vegan food and drink experience, a silent auction, plus the opportunity to be in the presence of other activists like Maryland Senator Jamie Raskin, NBC4 anchor Wendy Rieger and Paul Shapiro, COK founder and senior director of Humane Society of the United States’ factory farming campaign.

The suggested donation is $50, which can be made online or the night of the event. For more information and to make a donation, visit Compassion Over Killing

Photo: PR Photos

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