Vegetarian Star

Max Lugavere and Jason Silva are the hosts of Current Tv’s Unseen, a show where viewers are invited to ditch the tourist pamphlets and take a look at a country from the eyes of a local.

On a recent episode, the two gentlemen featured Spain, and an event where locals showed up to throw tomatoes at each other, La Tomatina.

They compared the popularity of the tradition to the running of the bulls, Lugavere adding, “without the animal cruelty.”

Does Lugavere have a heart for animal rights?

He and Silva were interviewed by Alternative Apparel, where they discussed encouraging greener ways of living, like refusing to purchase food from factory farms.

Granted, living greener usually also means not wasting food, a lot of which is done in this celebration.

Watch the clip for the cruelty-free tomato tradition (minus the use of a ham to start the celebration) above with locals chanting, “There’s no tomatoes. We Want Tomatoes” and slipping and sliding in red pulp.

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PETA has written a letter to Don and Becky Lansing, the owners of the farm the film Field of Dreams was shot on, in an attempt to convince them to convert the land into a pig empathy farm until it can be sold.

The display, titled, “Field of Nightmares: Pig Empathy Display,” would educate tourists by teaching them facts about pigs, such as intelligence, and allow guests to dine on faux meat pork products.

“We’d like to educate the 65,000 tourists who come each year to the Field of Dreams about how pigs feel pain and fear just as we do and are just as smart as 3-year-old humans,” PETA writes.
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Tonight Animal Planet airs a documentary on its investigation into one of the largest pet shops in the United States, Petland.

The company is both a target and defendant of the Humane Society of the United States due to its involvement with puppy mills.

Puppy mills often churn out animals with health and behavioral problems, after housing them in cramped conditions where they are designed to do nothing for humans but breed.

The video above documents an investigation where the White County Sheriff’s Department in Tennessee called the Humane Society to rescue over 200 dogs at a mill in Sparta.

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Stupid For Movies is a weekly web streamed version of Ebert and Roeper reviews, with LA film critics Mark Keizer and Wade Major giving the lowdown on films in the theatres and DVDs to either “buy,” “rent,” or “burn.”

The Stupid for Movies guys enjoy food on the show, and when creator Mike Rotman is expected to eat, there’s always going to be something meatless to review.

“We have a different food each week,” explained Rotman to Tubefilter. “Jaime (Fox, head writer on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show) brought pizza this week. I’ve made chili, we’ve done pasta. I’m vegetarian, so we stay vegetarian.”

Rotman revealed the secret to keeping his chili veggie is with Morningstar Farms Veggie Crumbles.

What’s your opinion on the substitute for ground beef?

Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Buy it or burn it?

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Medium airs tonight at 8PM on CBS guest starring several live pigs.

The episode, Dead Meat, has Patricia Arquette‘s character Allison solving the mystery of a missing animal rights activist and she uses the pigs to get clues about the disappearance.

Make no doubt about it, these actors are some of the brightest on the big screen.

“The pigs worked out really well and a lot of people don’t realize how smart pigs really are,” Greg Wolf, prop master, says in the video.

Researchers have estimated their intelligence to be at least that of a three year old and scientists have also found pigs have passed the mirror self-recognition test, where they understand what a reflection is and use it to check out their environment and find food.

Pigs like mirrors too, huh?

Guess they’re not that different from any other actor in Hollywood.

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Brad Pitt will play a tiger hunter in a film, The Tiger, directed by Darren Aronofsky and based on a nonfiction book with the same title by John Vaillant, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

After a town is terrorized by attacks from a Siberian tiger, Pitt’s character, an activist, is forced to hunt the animal he loves down to protect the citizens.

A sad story, and according to National Geographic, usually doesn’t happen.

Tigers normally avoid humans, and attack in situations when they are sick and unable to hunt properly or their prey has dwindled to scarce numbers.

Think you’re a pig at dinnertime?

A hungry tiger can eat as much as 60 pounds in one night!

That’s approximately the equivalent of, oh, 30 large mushroom and olive pizzas.

Definitely worth a good tip when delivered at your door.

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Shrek Nail Polish

The fourth installment of the Shrek series, Shrek: The final Chapter, has inspired six limited edition nail polishes from OPI.

You’re sure to find a shade that suits you among Funky Dunky, Fiercely Fiona, Who the Shrek Are You?, What’s with the Cattitude?, Rumples Wiggin’, and Ogre-the-Top Blue.

Even better, Peta2 is reporting OPI to be a cruelty-free company that doesn’t conduct tests on animals or ogres.

For this, Puss In Boots is thankful.

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Friday night’s Medium starring Patricia Arquette will have an animal rights twist to it.

After an animal rights activist working undercover at a farm goes missing, clues to solving the disappearance come from none other than a pig that Allison befriends.

Could pigs serve as detectives like dog serve as canine cops?

In one experiment, pigs were taught to retrieve items and they remember doing so three years later.

Or perhaps they’d be better at pushing paper.

Another experiment showed pigs able to move cursors on a computer screen and distinguish previous scribbles from new ones. In other words, the pigs performed a job similar to what many do in their dreary, boring cubicles from 9-5, Monday through Friday.

Catch Medium tomorrow at 9/8C for the episode.

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