Vegetarian Star

Couples figure skater Meagan Duhamel is part of the team that recently picked up four medals at Skate Canada over the weekend.

She and her partner, Eric Radford, brought home a Silver Medal.

Duhame, who’s been a vegan since 2008, credits her plant-based diet for the success she’s achieved in figure skating, including making her a lighter partner to toss in the air.

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During the filming of The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire was so adamant about sticking to his vegetarian principles, he demanded producers from the movie–set for release in 2013–remove a leather car from he set.

During his stay in Australia, Maguire–who plays Nick Carraway in the film–was given a Mercedes for personal use.

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“I thought I didn’t need the bad karma. It was an easy thing to give up on the old animals.”

—Russell Brand, citing his reasons for going vegetarian. Brand credits both Morrissey and karma for giving up animal products. He admires the former Smiths’ Meat is Murder singer so much, he named his cat after him, saying, “He’s exciting and electrifying, just like the real Morrissey.”

Photo: Eva Rinaldi/Creative Commons

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The Big Bang Theory recently featured a few of the characters in a pie-eating contest, including Mayim Bialik‘s Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler.

Bialik took to her blog to discuss the episode and scene, in a post titled, “Top 10 Behind the Scene Moments from Last Night’s Pie Eating Scene.”

The best part of the scene? The pie was vegan and kosher.

The worst? Bialik has horrible blueberry allergies!

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Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Eating Animals was chosen by the College of Charleston as this year’s College Reads! selection. The College Reads! program chooses a book for incoming students to read that is then incorporated into various academic syllabi and discussed throughout the year.

Eating Animals touches on the livestock and meat industry, environmental impact of meat eating, animal welfare standards, vegetarianism and veganism and more.

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Bob Barker has a feature in Vegetarian Times where he discusses what made him go vegetarian and his devotion to animal charities for the past several decades.

His favorite dish is pasta primavera, which sounds like the perfect food to throw his favorite vegetables of broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, and asparagus in.

Here’s what motivated him to change his diet 35 years ago.

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A Spanish version of Paul McCartney‘s Glass Walls narrated video was shown to a group of students at Los Angeles’ predominately Latino Roosevelt High School. The film illustrates what goes on behind the closed doors of the meat industry and encourages people to adopt a vegetarian diet.

Vegan and TV host Marco Antonio Regil was there to discuss veganism and present the video, which motivated 15 students to sign a pledge to go vegetarian that day.

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“These cute adorable baby calves jumping around, playing around, would be on someone’s plate someday. And I said, ‘Wait, so people can eat them?’ Mom just shook her head because she knew what was going to happen. I couldn’t eat those precious cows. They were my babies. I bottle-fed some of them. And now I knew where they went.”

—Carrie Underwood, during a VH1 Behind the Music interview on the lighbulb moment she experienced that prompted her to become a vegetarian.

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