Vegetarian Star

An update on that vegan Frappuccino you’re thinking of purchasing at the Starbucks down the street.

Or across the street.

Or inside the Target you buy toilet paper from.

You know, they’re not hard to find.

Anyway, Starbucks is now offering various Frappuccinos and some are vegan.

The Soy Strawberries and Crème sounds milky, but a careful request to leave some things off will give you a completely vegan drink.

This Dish Is Vegetarian contacted the company and found this out:

“We contacted Starbucks yesterday and found out the crème base is a sugar syrup – – non dairy. (Calling it crème was a bit confusing to us so we had to ask!) Starbucks also verified that the whipped cream is dairy based. Additionally the caramel drizzle (on the Extra Coffee Caramel Frappuccino) is made with butter. So leave off the whipped cream and the caramel and the Frapps are vegan.”

Ah, much less confusion!

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The Kind Diet

Everybody knows Chinese veggies love their vegan peanut butter chocolate cups too!

Alicia Silverstone‘s vegan diet, lifestyle and fitness book, The Kind Life, will be translated in Chinese and sold in China!

This comes straight from the blog created to accompany the principles taught in The Kind Diet, The Kind Life.

It’s gobble, gobble, vegan Global!

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South Beach Diet

Every vegan has one dairy free, coconut oil icing cupcake too many every now and then.

When it’s time to watch calories to lose a pound or two, you need to know what diet plans are veggie friendly.

PETA has graded several popular diets and the South Beach Diet comes out a winner receiving a “B” grade.

If South Beach prepared foods that didn’t contain dairy, it would have received and “A.”

Recipes like edamame salad and vegetarian chili are easy to veganize, and the South Beach plan is based on cooking at home.

Looks like Slimfast is going to have to repeat a grade or two, considering it was the only plan that received an “F.” Shakes and bars are BORING, plus there’s that whole 10 million shake recall from 2009 due to a bacteria issue.

Visit PETA’s blog to learn what other diet plans might be right for a pleasantly plump veg.

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Michael Pollan has been named of the most influential people of 2010 on Time Magazine‘s annual list.

Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, who’s criticized the unfit conditions for humans and animals in factory farms, can still be considered a vegetarian’s ally, despite his reluctance to go any further than advocating less meat.

Alice Waters has written his bio:

“Unwilling to accept the food industry’s account of where beef comes from, Michael bought a steer in Kansas to follow the life cycle of a kernel of corn from the laboratory to the feed bin to the restaurant where the beef is served. It’s a harrowing tale, and since the moment I heard him tell it, I have not served corn-fed beef of any kind. I was Pollanized — and I am not alone.”

“In the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. and in his books Food Rules and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael, 55, tells complex stories in an engaging voice. When he speaks live, I’ve seen thousands grip their seats as they realize what our food system has become and how badly we need to fix it.”

The full list of Time’s Most Influential People can be viewed here.

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Prince Charles has been an outspoken proponent of organic farming for some time, and he recently gave the Times Online a glimpse into the Highgrove farm and garden.

He denies the notion that organic farming isn’t a sustainable way to feed people, citing that although organic food costs more, people were paying three times as much for their food 30 years ago.

“Organic production costs more because of the effort and the management and the time that has gone into it,” he said. “Yet 30 years ago people were spending 30 per cent of their income on food, now it’s 10 per cent, so it’s all relative.”

Perhaps their health care costs were cheaper three decades ago too, as now mass produced and processed foods have contributed to obesity and other lifestyle related diseases, the effects of such wreaking havoc on both human and animal health.

“I’ve always felt that if you rely on endless inputs, artificial, chemical, goodness knows what, and if you treat animals like machines, it is not durable in the long term because nature will rebel. If you imagine that dairy cattle will produce quantities of milk that Nature never intended, and feed them on food that Nature never intended them to eat, like these huge feed lots in the United States and elsewhere which I think are an abomination and immoral, you will have a problem with type 2 diabetes. You’re producing cheap food but you’re actually creating more expense elsewhere in the chain.”

Visit the Times Online for more.

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Peruvian operatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez is certain that maintaining vocal health starts with good physical health.

Beef and chicken don’t make for good physical health, so he stays clear of it to keep the pipes working.

“Sleeping well is the main thing. And eating well; I’m vegetarian, which works for me,” Flórez said to The Independent.

Wonder if he also goes easy on the dairy before a big performance, as some vocalists believe it creates phlegm and interferes with vocal quality.

Flórez is best known for his roles in bel canto operas.

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In the words of the dysfunctional Jerry Springer contestant, Social Distortion’s Mike Ness says, “You Don’t Know Me!” (Feel free to insert finger snap.)

That’s what the musician told Spinner during an interview.

“My writing and my stage stuff, that’s just one side of me,” Ness said. “There are so many others people don’t know — being a vegetarian, my spiritual beliefs. There are dimensions to anybody.”

Ness has recorded a PSA for vegetarianism for PETA, so it’s not like he’s hiding in the closet or anything.

Maybe he just needs to speak up a little more. Watch his “Meat’s Not Green” video below.

“Our wildlife, what is left of it, we’re going to lose if we don’t man up and step up and be responsible,” Ness says in the clip.

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The British Beef Association has got a beef with Paul McCartney.

After making comments on a BBC radio show about the livestock industry contributing to climate change, the association demands the BBC give it air time to respond to the allegations McCartney made.

The association claimed this would be in the interests of the BBC’s “reputation for balance and accuracy,” according to Spinner.

McCartney told BBC, “It started off with the United Nations saying the livestock industry is a bigger demon, as far as global warming is concerned, than the whole of the transport industry put together.”

“I wrote to millions of people like Gordon Brown and the leaders of this and that country and saying, ‘Do you think this is an interesting idea?'”

“Since then, it has caught on and I understand that [chef] Gordon Ramsay has said that one meat-free day a week is a good idea and I understand that [fellow chef] Jamie Oliver too has said that it’s a good idea, so that’s why I got involved.

The BBC has not responded as to whether the British Beef Association will get their turn.

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