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"Trading Spouses" Barbara Gates

"Trading Spouses" Barbara Gates

A list of the most annoying reality TV stars has been compiled.

Remember Barbara Gates from Trading Spouses?

She was one of those annoying vegans who preached the word to everyone she came in contact with in a state where vegetarians aren’t 1 out of 3 people–Louisiana.

She was pretty bad about practicing her religion, though, cause in the end, she ended up eating alligator meat because those animals are, “ugly and mean.”

One more reason to run far, far away from the militant vegan.

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Lucy Devito Likes Gobo Restaurant

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 in Actresses, Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

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Lucy Devito recently revealed where you might find her eating dinner after a long day on the set.

“I really like Gobo which is on Sixth Avenue,” she said. “It’s a vegetarian place.”

With the slogan of “Food for the Five Senses,” everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear at Gobo is meatless, with vegan options available.

With two locations, one in Greenwich Village and the other on the Upper East Side, Gobo features many dishes of Asian cuisine made of lots of soy and seitan.

Try an appetizer of crispy spinach and soy cheese wantons or smoked Beijing style seitan with Chinese broccoli.

Don’t forget to save room for the vegan desserts.

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Seasonal Harvest iPhone Application

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 in Food & Drink, Tech.

Seasonal Harvest iphone app

Seasonal Harvest iphone app

Need to know if succulent grapes can still be found in Los Angeles?

There’s an app for that.

Seasonal Harvest is cool guide that lets you know what produce is in season in your area and where to find it.

Updated weekly, Seasonal Harvest is also useful in finding the nearest farmers market and searching for recipes.

According to some comments on the app’s site, it doesn’t allow you to search within zip codes yet, but updates may be on the way, as a recent change was made that better narrows down your options based on proximity.

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Vanity Fair Celebrates The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

Martha Stewart‘s magazine Body + Soul, now known as Whole Living, treated New York city elementary school children for their efforts to bring awareness to Earth Day.

According to MNN, the magazine teamed up with the non-profit group PENCIL to sponsor an Earth Day poster contest.

Each school picked a poster from each grade to go on to the finals, where the children were rewarded with locally grown produce and dairy and eggs sourced from Stewart’s farm.

Last year Martha attended a launch party for Farm Forward, an organization that aims to move everyone away from factory farming and shift focus towards smaller, family farms that use more sustainable practices.

Martha allowed Access Hollywood to accompany her on her farm, which uses no pesticides.

“Everything can be picked off the plant and just eaten,” Martha says in the video.

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Sarah Silverman opens Up About 'Bedwetter Days!

“Suddenly the phrase ‘hide the salami‘ had a whole new meaning.”

Sarah Silverman, in her latest book, The Bedwetter, describing the time she was held down by classmates in the school cafeteria seven years after becoming vegetarian and forced to eat cold cut meat.

Reviewers are promising the rest of the book is filled with just as many poignant and vulgur-esque written memories.

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Cattle at a feeding station

An EPA intern has angered members of the American Farm Bureau Association by posting on the EPA’s blog the idea that eating less meat and going vegetarian can help the environment.

Nicole Reising wrote:

“There are a variety of different environmental impacts that occur due to the production of meat:

Air pollution due to dust and liquid manures.
Fossil fuels, water, and land over-use
Rainforest erosion and destruction for pasture land
Water contamination due to animal waste”

Reising suggests going vegetarian or vegan to combat these problems, and emphasizes the numerous sources of plant proteins like seitan and soy.

“While this is a position taken by an intern of the agency, EPA should control its blog space,” said AFBP President Bob Stallman. “What is written on its blog comes across as its official position toward farmers and ranchers that it regulates and shows a terrible disregard for them and the agriculture industry.”

Animal industry advocate and lobbyist Steve Kopperud,  posted an online response stating this was definitely not what his taxes were paying for.

“I’m at a loss to understand how a taxpayer-supported government agency can give the time and access to an intern to spread what can only be described as incredibly naïve, but politically volatile misinformation.”

You can read Reising’s entire post on the EPA blog, as well as over 20o responses to it.

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American Idol Gives Back

Carrie Underwood told US Magazine at the American Idol Gives Back show that she rarely eats out at restaurants.

“I think the hardest thing about what I do is eating [healthy] because we’re all over the place,” Underwood said.

“It’s fast food, there’s aftershow food, you get pizza, whatever,” she added. “I don’t do that. I don’t eat out ever.”

“Every once in a while I have a day off and I might go to a restaurant — but no aftershow food and I keep my fridge stocked.”

Carrie’s reluctance to go out may have a lot to do with her vegetarian diet.

Not every part of the country is as vegetarian friendly as others, especially the parts of the United States that boo her for announcing she’s veg on stage.

Still, this gal could use an iphone application like VegOut every once in awhile to navigate her way to the nearest veg friendly restaurant.

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Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall Praises Seasonal British Produce

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 in Food & Drink.

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British food dull and boring?

Ha!

That’s not what the Duchess of Cornwall thinks.

At an event to launch British Food Fortnight, an campaign meant to highlight British producers, Camilla said the stereotypes of British food being “dull, turgid and over-boiled” were “utter rubbish”.

Camilla said she loved food that “followed the seasons”, not the “whims” of “multinational food conglomerates”.

It must be a family affair, as Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, supports eating locally, organic grown produce too.

Information about the seasonal produce available in different areas of Britain, as well as advice for starting your own garden, can be found on the British Fortnight website.

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