Vegetarian Star

50 Cent returned to his old neighborhood in Queens this weekend to promote healthy living and encourage kids to get physically active.

Kids participated in relay races and children and adults were invited to grab hearty servings of whole wheat pasta and veggie burgers.

“I just want [kids] to be active, move around and be physical,” 50 Cent, who’s real name is Curtis Jackson, told the New York Daily News. “Don’t sit in front of a computer all day.”

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Sarah Silverman can make a joke out of just about anything. But the state of school lunches today is no laughing matter and the comedian showed her serious side when she wrote to Congress, requesting it pass the Healthy School Meals Act. Silverman joins several celebrities who have voiced their support for the bill that would make vegetarian options more readily available in schools nationwide.

“All kids—vegetarian or not—should have healthy options. I think we forget the simple fact that what we put in our bodies directly effects our bodies. Many kids aren’t able to bring lunches from home—they have to eat what’s in the lunch line. Without healthful options in the cafeteria, we’re doing our children and the future of our country a great disservice.”

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Constance Marie says the nursery for 16 month old Luna Marie is 90% green.

“I am not perfect — 90 percent was all I could do. Every bit counts!” Marie told People’s Celebrity Baby Blog.

Marie is constantly looking for ways to make that 90% a 91, 92 or even higher by reading Greenopia, a one stop guide to everything green from household products, foods, pet products, jewelry and product ratings.

Marie’s main targets for greening the baby’s room included the paint, which was low or no VOC, the mattress–made with natural rubber, and clean air.

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Anthony Bourdain has admitted to knowingly sleeping with a vegetarian. This ended relationship must obviously be why he’s called them and vegans a “persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.”

Despite his hatred for bean lovers, there’s a potential bedtime fellow he’ll never seduce–that’s McDonald’s. The Guardian contains an edited abstract from Bourdain’s latest book, Medium Raw, which describes his hatred toward the giants that suck children into meals consisting of factory farmed meat bad for people, animals and the planet.

“They know exactly when and how to start building brand identification and loyalty with brightly coloured clowns and smoothly tied-in toys. From funding impoverished school districts to the instalment of playgrounds, McDonald’s has not shrunk from fucking with young minds in any way it can. But I want my little girl to see fast-food culture as I do. As the enemy.”

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Mary McCartney has designed 100% organic cotton t-shirts for the Danish children’s label Mini A Ture. The two shirts will benefit Sunway Children’s Home, an orphanage in India, which Mini A. Ture has supported since 2005.

The shirts are available at the Selfridges store in London, and can also be ordered online.

Choosing organic cotton to design the clothing aligns well with the McCartney family’s ideals to preserve the environment. It’s estimated that cotton crops use about a quarter of all agricultural insecticides applied globally each year and according to the EPA, 7 of the top 15 pesticides used on cotton crops are either known or potential human carcinogens.

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Jakub Mejstrik

A vegan chef is part of the 500 in Michelle Obama‘s Chefs Move To Schools campaign that does a Jamie Oliver-like revolution and pairs culinary experts with schools across the nation to improve lunches and educate cafeteria workers, teachers and administrators.

Jakub Mejstrik is a vegan chef who is likely to end up in a school in the northeast Ohio area once he starts his mission. Although he knows he’s not going to turn every 5th grader vegetarian, as a vegan, his perspectives on food and health are bound to make an incredible difference.

“There is no way I can just go into the schools and tell [children and administrators] ‘this is what I believe in, this is what you should do’ — but at least I want to help them incorporate as many fresh fruits and vegetables as they can,” Mejstrik told Cleveland.com.

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Rachael Ray joined a bi-partisan group on Thursday to help unveil changes to the Child Nutrition Act.

The bill proposes that more students have more access to school meals, including breakfasts, and would extend the umbrella for assistance for low-income students, making it easier to access meals without the hassles of paperwork that might otherwise deny them based on a small margin declaring them ineligible. It would also extend school lunch programs during the summer for certain programs like camps in rural areas.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said in a press release that although the program is a start, it doesn’t address the issue of high fat foods in school lunches or providing enough plant based options.

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Russell Simmons hosted an event in his home for two schools that provide environments for many African-American and Latino boys to succeed in an area where their educational outcomes aren’t always good. The event raised $250,00 for the Eagle Academy Foundation, which supports three New York City schools for the young men.

Providing the food was Acquolina Catering, which served fried tofu with cilantro sauce and Portobello burger and chocolate mousse–all vegan items.

Two of the schools boast an 85% graduate rate for the students, compared to the average of 50% for African-American and Latino men in other schools in the region.

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