Vegetarian Star

“I can’t stress how easy it is to leave these things out of your life. And in some ways how important it is to leave these things out of your life. This is something that affects you, the world around you, the environment and even the economy. This is something that touches all of our lives.”

—Tim McIlrath, lead singer of Rise Against, in a video on going vegan. Tim’s entire statement can be seen below.

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Nigel Barker, the America’s Next Top Model photographer known among animal welfare activists for capturing evocative images of the Canadian Seal Slaughter, hosted an event with the Humane Society of the United States to encourage chefs and restaurants to boycott Canadian seafood until the annual seal slaughter has ended.

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Vegetarian Tour de France fans may be interested in watching American cyclist David Zabriskie during this year’s race. The returning competitor will be adding a second challenge to the 2011 race–completing it with a vegan diet.

Zabriskie has maintained the diet for nine months with good results.

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PETA has revealed the winners of its latest Sexiest Vegetarians Contest.

Being sexy, vegetarian and funny must be a likely combination because this year two hilarious television personalities, Kristen Wiig and Russell Brand were crowned Queen and King.

Ironically, SNL star Wiig once starred in a skit mocking vegans. But since she still considers some of her indulgences to be dark chocolate peanut M & M’s and “hot, melty cheesy sandwiches” we guess it’s still okay for her to mock the nut cheese and rice milk fanatics.

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Yotam Ottolenghi keeps plenty of tricks up his sleeve. Like an abundance of herbs to beautify and liven up a dish and the pomegranate seeds he calls the “Jewels in the Crown.”

Yotam uses these tricks in his vegetable cookbook Plenty, and NPR recently interviewed the chef to learn how he makes magic with vegetables, including not overcooking your greens.

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Reality TV cooking shows usually play devil and not angel to vegetarian contestants and meals, but during a recent episode of The Next Food Network Star, the chefs made meals from Kellogg’s products that were mostly meatless.

The bad boys and girls must be ice skating in hell right now, because when Paula Deen eats tofu the place has definitely frozen over.

And amazingly, Paula didn’t wrap the piece of soy in bacon, fry it in lard and dip it in butter.

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Coldplay rocked the popular British Glastonbury Festival this weekend and The Mirror is reporting that the band requested vegetarian, gluten-free dips for their backstage buffet.

The online tabloid jokes the band’s choice of food was “anti rock n’ roll” and a “waste,” but those that “Vida La Vida” like vegetarian frontman Chris Martin know the best way to single, double or even triple dip is with anything green and crunchy.

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BET, also known as Black Entertainment Television, is a Viacom-owned cable network targeting issues related to African-Americans and has aired popular shows like The Wendy Williams Show, Keyshia Cole’s reality TV series and The Michael Vick Project.

The network’s online component celebrates Meatless Mondays and has included delicious recipes like Sesame Tofu with Eggplant, Spring Green Salad and today’s Meatless Monday recipe, Lentil Tacos.

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