Vegetarian Star

You’ve heard of actors getting in touch with their characters through a change in lifestyle that involves learning a new hobby or visiting a specified location.

Sean Pamphilon, filmmaker behind ESPN’s “30 for 30” episode about NFL player Ricky Williams, lived the Miami Dolphins’ running back life for the duration of his filming.

This included attending the yoga classes taught by Williams and eating mostly vegan.

The episode, Run Ricky Run, is scheduled to air on April 27 at 8PM on ESPN.

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Private Chefs of Beverly Hills

The Food Network show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills did a little medieval twist recently when the chefs were asked to cater a dinner party with a murder mystery theme.

Private Chefs follows six cooks from a Beverly Hills private chef placement agency as they attempt to cater for the most eccentric and finicky Los Angeles clients.

Seventeenth century food was lacking in beans and tofu, as the menu consisted of Cinnamon Sausage Biscuits, Bison Soup, Roasted Turkey Leg wrapped in Collard Greens and Traditional Sheppard’s Pie.

It was truly what you’d call “mystery meat.”

The chefs had to dress up in ridiculous outfits and plant cues to the mystery in the food.

As if the episode’s menu wasn’t anti-vegetarian enough, the killer turns out to be the sole meatless eater.

Go figure.

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"The Joneses" Movie Poster

The Joneses premiered this weekend, a film starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny about a family that moves into a neighborhood with all the latest accessories and gadgets, secretly serving as marketing puppets to get the neighbors to buy new things.

The movie was filmed in Atlanta and director Derrick Borte spent a lot of time at the Dekalb Farmers Market downtown.

The market restaurant, open seven days a week from 11AM to 8PM, serves fresh meals with a heavy emphasis on vegetables.

Two vegetarian options, the lasagna and the signature samosas, are said to be favorites among customers.

Promoting fresh, local food with plant based options?

Now that’s a trend worth following.

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A future Law and Order episode will touch on the meat industry and activism.

After a young woman’s murder, detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler learn the first suspect, her boyfriend, is a pacifist vegan type and unlikely to be involved.

They soon learn the victim had went undercover to expose questionable practices in a meat plant.

Beef is scheduled to air April 21.

Watch the clip for a preview.

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Food Inc.

To celebrate Earth Month in April, Whole Foods is sponsoring an event, Let’s Retake Our Plates, which features screenings of earth friendly films across the country.

A entire list of films in the series can be found on the website, which also lists screenings by state.

Incredibly, these screenings cover the map of the United States well, from California to D.C. to Tennessee, so be sure to check the listings for one near you.

As expected, the Oscar nominated Food Inc. is on the list, as well as Fast Food Nation, the Beavan family’s adventures living with less environment impact in No Impact Man, and What’s On Your Plate?

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Joining the cast of Butter with Alicia Silverstone will be vegan actress Olivia Wilde.

The film is a political satire of the 2008 Democratic election, in which butter carving is the competition, instead of an election.

Here’s a synopsis from MTV, which includes the roles for Jennifer Garner and Ty Burrell:

“Jennifer is the leading lady Laura — the Hillary Clinton of this scenario who is poised to win the butter-carving competition. Her husband, played by Ty Burrell, is a term-limited butter carving champ who picks up a stripper mistress along the way. While that is developing, Laura finds her plans to win the competition thwarted by a young African American upstart, played by Yara Shahidi.”

Wilde will be playing the stripper who seduces the former butter carving champion.

Previous reports said the Silverstone would play the character of the stripper, but it is now known she will play the adoptive mother of the African American upstart butter carver.

Whether the producers will be using real butter, margarine or something completely inedible isn’t known, but let’s hope if it’s real, they source if from small local farms that treat their cows more kindly, as opposed to alleged conditions uncovered at a Land O’Lakes supplier, which included filthy conditions and downer cows not being treated by veterinarians.

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Kirstie Alley took to Twitter to express her excitement for the Oscar nominated documentary, Food Inc.

“Yes, we’ve been talking about Food Inc all day…great informative needed flick.”

An inside look at the industrial mass production of food while highlighting small, organic farms as a better alternative, Food Inc. can be viewed for free on PBS on April 21.

The best films in life may really be free after all, and not available through pay-per-view.

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If saving animals, helping the Earth and lowering your cholesterol aren’t enough to motivate you to go vegetarian, it’s time to wake up early on the weekends and go to church!

The recent PBS documentary The Adventists, explores the connection between faith and science and attempts to explain why Seventh Day Adventists live, on average, 5-10 years longer than most Americans!

Could it have anything to do with their diet and lifestyle?

As a major component of their faith, the Adventists promote and focus on maintaining a vegetarian diet, exercise and refrain from alcohol and tobacco.

The church bases this belief from the Christian Bible passage that “reminds us that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,” said Duane Rollins, treasurer of the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Church congregations across the nation have taken steps to improve the health of its members, whether through inviting health care practitioners to screen in between Sunday School and worship or programs that encourage a combination of exercise, calorie reduction and overall diet changes.

During the next Single Men or Single Ladies study, skip your trip to retrieve donuts for the group and bring fruit, low-fat animal crackers and Go Vegetarian pamphlets instead.

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