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Wayne Pacelle, CEO and President of the Humane Society of the United States, was a guest on MSNBC’s weekday morning talk show, Morning Joe.

Pacelle made the major announcement that Burger King is transitioning to cage-free eggs and pork from suppliers that do not confine pigs to crates that severely restrict the movement of the animal.

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Jessica Chastain has been eating vegetarian for almost two decades, so when it was time to film a scene on The Help where her character ate fried chicken, the producers had to make a few modifications.

Not a big problem at all, considering all the realistic faux meats that are available.

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Avengers stars Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner are doing lots of interviews these days and there couldn’t be more dynamics between The Black Widow and Hawkeye, even when they’re outside of costume.

Johansson and Renner got on the topic of vegan goodies during a recent chat where Johansson tries hard to explain to Renner all vegan food doesn’t taste like birdseed and toenails.

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What do you get when you combine Borat‘s Sasha Baron Cohen as a Middle Eastern dictator with a vegan, co-op grocery store owner?

One would hope a completely organic produce section where anything genetically modified would be zapped by super military powers.

But in the case of a new film titled The Dictator, you only get actress Anna Faris as the “ultra-liberal vegan grocery store owner who inadvertently rescues a Saddam Hussein-esque tyrant”

Plus, a few good jokes about educated women looking like monkeys on roller skates.

Watch a clip below to see how disappointed Cohen’s character is to learn to organic store doesn’t sell any assault rifles.

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Hot mamma!

How did actress Scarlett Johansson develop such a sleek and toned body to look so good as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in The Avengers?

The actress told The Sun she accomplished this primarily through following a vegan diet.

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So all the vegetarians and vegans were enjoying what they thought were veg-friendly Frappacinos made with soy milk. But now news has surfaced that the Strawberries and Cream Frappucinos and Strawberry Smoothies they consumed were made to look pink with cochineal extract, a dye made from female cochineal insects.

Yummy.

Stephen Colbert poked fun of the fact Starbucks justified the use of this product by saying it wanted to get away from artificial ingredients. Colbert may be a slow-food activist after all, as he suggests people just trying grinding up a good old fruit with the same color in soy milk.

An actual fruit.

Fresh. Unprocessed. More nutrients. Zero bugs. Maybe Colbert is onto something.

Watch the clip for more.

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“When I talk to people about food, I say to them, “If you have a really great car, what do you do? You take care of it. Your body is the most expensive car you have. Don’t overfuel it.Take care of it. Give it the best fuel you possibly can. People say, “I like to eat junk food.” You’re taking really low-grade gas and putting it in your car and asking it to run at its optimal. And it’s never going to work.”

–Robin Quivers, radio personality best known for her time spent on The Howard Stern Show, in a clip from the documentary that investigates whether childhood obesity is caused by poor quality school lunches, Lunch Hour.

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A new documentary that examines the relationship behind childhood obesity and The National School Lunch Program features several individuals prominent in the vegan community.

Written and co-directed by James Costa, Lunch Hour will be screened at the Palm Beach Food Festival tomorrow, Wednesday April 18, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM.

Talk radio host Robin Quivers, vegan chef Alex Jamieson and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s Dr. Neal Barnard and Elizabeth Kucinich all have clips in the film and give their input on making cafeteria food healthier.

Dr. Barnard demonstrated with graduated cylinders how much fat can be eliminated from a child’s diet for each day the school serves veggie burgers.

“At most schools in America, the only choice the child gets is that and nothing else,” Dr. Barnard said, holding up the cylinder with the greatest amount of fat in it.

View more of Dr. Barnard’s clip below.

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