Vegetarian Star

2009 was a year of memorable quotes, so says the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, which has compiled its list of great celebrity verbiage of the year.

There are some quotes, however, that are worth forgetting, like one made by chef Antony Worrall Thompson when he attacked Paul McCartney‘s Meat Free Monday campaign.

“I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.”

Ha, haaaaaa. Be sure to put him in the category of chefs you really love like Hezbollah vegan hating Anthony Bourdain.

Pamela Anderson wanted you to know she is now a Rembrandt.

“Yesterday, I was considered soft porn, but today I am art.”

Does that mean the art history students of the next century will be studying and critiquing the Lettuce Ladies ads?

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The Sims 3 allows players to create vegetarian Sims

PETA has awarded The Sims 3 by Electronic Art a Proggy Award for being the Most Animal Friendly Game of 2009.

The Proggy Award is short for “progress,” and is intended for PETA to recognize companies that display animal friendly themes in their products.

According to PETA, The Sims 3 can feature Sims who not only eat vegetarian, but become ill if served vegetarian food.

Wonder if these Sims can force their meat eating virtual friends to have a Quorn patty here and there?

“Rumor has it that game testers have reported that vegetarian Sims live longer and age more slowly than meat-eating Sims,” PETA continued. “Of course, that would jibe with studies showing that real-life vegans and vegetarians are less prone to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other life-threatening conditions.”

Do these Sims get better premiums on their health care coverage?

If not, it’s time to make changes for The Sims 4!

via gamasutra.com

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As a vegetarian, can you ever agree that some meat is ethical?

John Mackey made the decision to go vegetarian after discovering how some animals farmed for meat were treated.

“I became more conscious of what we were doing to livestock animals and how much those animals were being abused,” he said during a video interview posted on the Whole Foods blog.  “The summer of 2003, I read a dozen books or so on the way animals were being treated and I decided in good conscious I didn’t want to eat animals anymore.”

But Whole Foods still sells meat. Does this make Mackey a hypocrite?

“I find the death argument to not be a particularly good one because everything that’s alive dies. At the end of the day it’s the quality of life that you have prior from birth to death that really matters. Not whether you die in the end. Animals are going to die in the end and what matters to them whether the life they have from birth to death is a life that allows them to fulfill their animal potential.”

Mackey says the company has been developing an Animal Welfare 5 Step rating program, which will rate producers based on how they treat their livestock. Ideally, the producers with the highest rating will be the only ones to sell their product at Whole Foods.

Certainly a life full of free movement and fresh air beats being crammed in cages and being forced to reproduce or produce products like milk unnaturally.

Do you agree with Mackey?

Or should Whole Foods aim to stop selling meat entirely?

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After discovering conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was hospitalized for chest pains, Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, decided to write Limbaugh a letter suggesting changes to his diet might prevent such medical problems.

A letter urging someone to go veg? That’s right. PCRM must be playing PETA now.

“In our grandparents’ day, people knew the value of humble beans, vegetables, and fruits, often growing them in their own family gardens. These foods have essentially no cholesterol and very little saturated fat. Nowadays, many Americans are very liberal with meat, dairy products, and end up needing to rely on medications to counteract the effects of their diets.”

According to a  news release, PCRM also delivered a care packet of fruits, vegetables and other vegan foods, courtesy of Down to Earth, an organic vegetarian store in Oahu.

PCRM says that heart attacks increase during December and January because of eating patterns that occur during the holiday season.

If Rush’s hospital room comes with Internet access, he’ll be able to go online and sign up for the PCRM 21 Day Vegan Kickstart program.

Wishing Rush a speedy recovery because Punkin the cat must really be missing him.

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Bob Harper is the kind of man every woman dreams of–he loves spending time in the kitchen.

“I love to cook. Love, love, to cook,” Bob told PEOPLE. “When I’m in L.A., I cook every night that I’m home. It’s really relaxing to me.”

The Biggest Loser coach who lost dozens of points off his cholesterol after going vegetarian insists he never grows bored with cooking the same beans and rice every evening.

“People are always asking, ‘If I’m a vegetarian, are my options limited? My answer is no way! There are so many great recipes out there to choose from, and I also love to experiment with different vegetables and grains. Guests are always surprised when they come over for dinner and I whip up pasta.”

Bob has given PEOPLE an idea of what he might whip up one evening at his LA residence, Roasted Vegetable Salad with Vinaigrette Dressing.

Zucchini, bell peppers and chickpeas are just a few of the delicious ingredients in one of Bob’s favorite salads.

Grab the recipe and start the New Year off by cooking at home more like Bob at people.com.

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There’s nothing worse than when a former vegetarian celebrity goes public and disses the lifestyle. Many of you were ready to rip the burger from Julia Stiles‘ mouth when she used the word orgasm to describe eating meat again after being vegan.

She wants you to know she’s sorry.

“I regret going on a talk show and talking about it,” Julia said. “I was young and impressionable and trying to be funny.”

Sure, Julia, blame it on youth.

Here’s more of what Julia had to say on vegetarianism from EcoStiletto:

On her present vegetarian status:
If I go to someone’s house I won’t make a stink, but I don’t choose to eat that much meat. I love fish, though. That’s probably bad, too. But you have to eat something, right?

On why she went vegan:
Not so much animal rights, but for health reasons. I just started reading more about factory farming and I didn’t want to be consuming that. And there are some spiritual reasons that I got into it, too. It’s weird to talk about, it’s a personal thing, but also I didn’t like the taste of meat that much. And I was grossed out by hormones in dairy products.

I’d never want to be preachy because I think what people choose to eat is their own personal decision. But I was saddened by the idea of the cows in diary pens and what they’re forced to eat—corn that they weren’t ever meant to digest. But there are ways to be super unhealthy as a vegan—all that processed food.

Learn what Julia has to say about being eco-friendly and learn who her eco idol is at ecostiletto.com.

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Mandy Moore Shape January 2010

“I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It’s a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something before other people are even awake.”

—-Mandy Moore, from an interview with Shape. Mandy’s featured on the January 2010 issue of the magazine and although she’s not known to be a veggie, you’ve got to give her credit for appreciating and supporting locally grown, fresh produce.

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With Gordon Ramsay making a casting call for his new reality TV series about great cooks with no formal training, Master Chef, Stylecaster thought it’d be a good time to highlight a few of its favorite rising chefs.

“Here are the top 10 chefs to watch out for in 2010,” Tricia Ismail at Stylecaster.com writes.

“Watch out” is indeed the right phrase if you see Naomi Pomeroy heading for your kitchen.

A former vegetarian, Pomeroy is now head chef of Beast in Portland, Oregon where every beast appears on the menu.

From Stylecaster:

“This one-time vegetarian is now head chef at the restaurant Beast in Portland, Oregon where she is known for her steak tartare, foie gras bonbon, and chicken liver moose with candied bacon. Things have definitely changed–for the better.”

Or changed for the worse.

However, there is hope, as White House assistant chef Sam Kass is also on the way to fame.

Kass supported bringing the Farmer’s Market near the Pennsylvania Avenue area in D.C., keeps himself busy tending to produce in the White House organic garden, and will hopefully continue to carry out Michelle Obama‘s wish to encourage people to incorporate healthier, locally grown produce into their diets.

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