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obscura "Antiques & Oddities"

Evan Michelson and Mike Zohn are the stars of the Science Channel’s Oddities, a show about their everyday lives running Obscura Antiques and Oddities, a shop carrying, according to This Dish Is Veg, everything from “exploding skulls to embalming equipment to dolls made with belly button lint.”

Michelson and Zohn are both vegetarians, so thank goodness they aren’t eating some of those weird items with skulls, but they did reveal to This Dish Is Veg the oddities of their diets, which include plenty of good food from New York City’s vegetarian restaurants.

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Trader Joe's Vegan Pad Thai Tofu

Trader Joe’s Vegan Pad Thai with Tofu is apparently so good, it’s worth two educated, professional women throwing punches over.

Singer and teacher Marcella Caprario and Dr. Cathleen London, a nationally renown physician who’s appeared on shows like CNN’s The Joy Behar Show and Fox TV, were recently involved in an altercation over the prized frozen dish that got physical .

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Ron Artest Jimmy Kimmel prank

Ron Artest has never hesitated to lend his face to helping animals, such as when he helped PETA urge pet owners to spay and neuter their 4-legged friends. So when Jimmy Kimmel decided play a joke on Artest by tricking him to do a PSA for a phony animal charity called “Critters United,” it was all too easy to get a few good laughs.

Of course Artest loves animals, but even the greatest animal lover in the world might be a little uneasy working with the unusual co-stars of the PSA, which include a python, a large bird, a possum and even a, ahem, “bear.”

Watch the video below for four minutes of hilarity.

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Telly award

The Humane Society of the United States has received a prestigious “Telly Award” for its coverage of a factory farm ran by Smithfield Foods.

“Undercover at Smithfield” highlighted severe abuse of pigs at one of the nation’s largest pork producers  by exposing how pigs are confined in small, cramped gestation crates that allow them little movement.

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Jamie Oliver

If more people had Jamie Oliver as their home ec teacher, there would definitely be a lot more vegetarians graduating from high school these days.

Back after the brief hiatus ABC forced upon him to make room for D-list celebrities trying to dance, Oliver took his Food Revolution mission to transform America’s eating habits to a classroom, showing kids what all those processed ingredients and preservatives you can’t pronounce really are.

Like bugs. And bird feathers. And for the cannibals, human hair.

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The trailer for season two of Vegan 101, the vegan web comedy series created, written and produce by actress Joanne Rose, is now available.

Season two stars actor Eric Roberts, who’s had roles in big films such as The Dark Knight and The Expendables.

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Jamie Oliver

So ABC was completely happy with letting millions of American children continue to eat processed food crap for the past few weeks during May Sweeps and it pulled Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution from its original Tuesday slot and for the rest of the month.

Oliver is back and you can see him during the season’s final four episodes starting this Friday, June 3 at 9:00 PM.

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Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live where he discussed his latest film, The Hangover 2 and being vegan.

Tyson was partially motivated to go vegan because there is a history of obesity in his family. He also didn’t want his children to grow up unhealthy and wanted to set a good example.

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