Vegetarian Star

Paul McCartney and his photographer, cookbook author daughter Mary paid a visit to the Linda McCartney Foods factory where frozen vegetarian entrees like pizza, cannelloni, lasagna, spicy bean and sausage casserole and veggie burgers are manufactured.

The purpose of the visit was to sample some of the new vegetarian options, including a new veggie burger, Linda McCartney Mozzarella Quarter Pounder Burger, that will launch later this month.

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Elisa Camahort--Co-Founder of BlogHer

Elisa Camahort is one of the three co-founders of the popular blogging and online community geared towards women, BlogHer.

On BlogHer’s website, the three women have offered their 12 Tips For Becoming Your Authentic Self. Camahort, a blogger of eco-conscious, green and vegan lifestyle issues, used her diet to illustrate the best way to live according to your values–even if you aren’t able to always live up to them.

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Feed Trick-Or-Treat

You’ve checked the list of animal-free candy and ingredients to watch out for if an unknown brand gets placed in your child’s trick-or-treat pail. You’re religiously following the tips for a Cheap and Eco-Friendly Halloween, such as making costumes from clothing and fabric already in your closet or going to the local thrift store. The only way to top this off is to collect candy in a reusable bag designed for a great humanitarian cause.

FEED Projects, co-founded by Lauren Bush and Ellen Gustafson, has launched their FEED Trick-or-Treat bags exclusively at HSN.com/hsncares.

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“I won’t have meat all over my body… I love Gaga and her music, she is so talented but I find that… Actually I think it was gross! I don’t even like walking past a meat counter, so it’s not my sort of dress.”

—Leona Lewis, to X Magazine, about Lady Gaga’s fashion sense. Walking past the meat counter may not only be a psychologically disturbing experience for a vegetarian, but a smelly one too. Rotten flesh and potentially expired meat stinks, as some customers who complained to the health department of Atlanta about smells of “dried blood” and “stinking” smells at the Super Giant grocery store’s meat department learned. The health department had received previous complaints and had cited the store, where the manager says he sells meat at a reduced price as it nears the expiration date, for safety issues.

Vegetarian Star’s take: That meat “expired” when the animal’s heart stopped beating. It’s all a health hazard!

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A sneak peek at an upcoming episode of The Biggest Loser reveals coach Bob Harper will trade his tank top for an apron as he invites contestants into his home and prepares a vegan meal for them!

The episode is scheduled to air on October 12th and will also feature celebrity chef Curtis Stone preparing healthier desserts, like his Poached Pear with Red Wine Reduction and Yogurt.

Will Harper use faux meats? Or will he prepare a high protein substitute like seitan from scratch? Or maybe he will do it plain and simple, utilizing some of his favorite vegan staples like soy, beans, raw or roasted nuts and hummus.

Tune in next week on NBC to find out!

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Tim Love Jane Velez-Mitchell. Credit: Eatocracy

Chef Tim Love has anything but love for the vegetarian diet. Hoping to silence the veggie hoopla, he hopped onto CNN’s 5@5 to list the reasons why he thought cream of broccoli can’t compete with chicken fried steak. However, Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of HLN’s Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell jumped into the ring and fired back with five punches of her own as to why veg is the only way to go.

When Love said:

“Eating vegetarian may seem like the healthier option (and, probably, often is), but when it comes down to it, meat, in moderation, provides much needed protein, iron and amino acids. As long as you don’t go overboard and eat one of those 15-pound burgers you see on TV, you should be fine.”

Jane said:

“If huge amounts of protein were the key to perfect health, America would be the healthiest nation on earth because we eat a lot more meat than people in most other countries. But, we’re not the healthiest. Two thirds of us are overweight or obese and the crisis is accelerating. The drumbeat of protein is a selling tool – pure and simple – and we’ve all bought into it. Americans are getting more protein than they need.”

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Anthony Bourdain and Jonathan Safran Foer have taken a stab at the meat versus vegetarian debate before on Eric Ripert’s Turn and Burn. Now, the chef and author are together again for a debate posted at CBC Radio.

Foer’s primary reason for going vegetarian was because of the conditions of factory farms, citing they go against the values most people hold, whether they’re vegetarian or not.

Bourdain kept referencing to eating meat as a way to welcome other people and experiencing cultures outside your home. So while being vegetarian at home is okay, he’d prefer people not turn down meat dishes as guests.

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Sun Chips Compostable

Alright, vegan, eco-friendly snackers. You’ve made too much noise opening your Sun Chips 100% compostable bags, too many people complained and now Frito-Lay is switching back to the less environmentally friendly, quieter bags. Were you munching on Sun Chips in the library?

Last year, Frito-Lay came out with a completely biodegradable bag as an alternative to its plastic ones. However, the downside is that the eco-friendly bags make more noise when opening and customers started complaining.

The company is now in the transition of making the switch to the old bags for all of the flavors except Original, which happens to be vegan. So, technically, vegans eating the totally plant-based Sun Chips may still get to munch in unison with Mother Earth.

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