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Heather Mills V Bites Learning Cafe For Hunts Point Alliance (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 in Food & Drink, Videos.

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Heather Mills recently opened a V Bites Learning Cafe to children helped by the Hunts Point Alliance for Children.

The video shows the ribbon cutting ceremony as well as a deliciously wicked panorama of vegan food porn.

Here’s what Heather had to say:

“I had a dream about seven years ago to try and come up with a solution to get children to get off the fast food and save more animals, make them more healthy and ultimately save the planet. Unless we start reducing the consumption of meat and dairy there is no future for the children. It’s the biggest contributor to global warming. Hasn’t been acknowledged yet, they’ve acknowledged it as the second biggest contributer, but the consumption of meat and dairy is the biggest contributor to global warming. It will come out in a few years when we get brave enough to say it.”

There are no words to describe how incredible this woman is.

via Ecorazzi.com

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Windsor Castle Hosts Vegan Banquet For Religious Leaders

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 in Environment-Eco-Green, Food & Drink.

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Windsor Castle was set to host its first ever vegan banquet today as part of a conference for religious leaders on environmental issues.

Britain’s Prince Philip and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were both scheduled to be present at the lunchtime meal.

Officials chose a vegan meal to accommodate the different religious dietary requirements of the many faiths that were represented, such as Hindu, Islam and Judaism.

The menu included roasted English pear salad and stuffed portabello mushrooms.

Ironically, the vegan menu is also the perfect way to dine at a conference meant to highlight environment problems as meat and dairy industries cause tons of destruction to the planet.

According to some scientists, producing approximately 2 pounds of beef is equal to more CO2 emissions than going on a three hour drive while leaving all the lights on at home.

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Jonathan Safran Foer “Eating Animals” VegNews Magazine

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 in Authors, Books, Food & Drink.

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Jonathan Safran Foer "Eating Animals" Interview

Best selling author Jonathan Safran Foer has a new book out, Eating Animals.

Foer had been an on again/off again vegetarian for years, but never really took the time to learn about the rational reasons for doing so. When his wife became pregnant, he decided it was time to educate himself so he could teach his child why going vegetarian is the best diet for humans, animals, and the planet.

In a recent interview with Vegnews, Jonathan elaborates on why people still find no fault in eating meat, especially factory farmed meat.

“Peoples’ responses to food, the reason they take it so emotionally and so many smart, informed people continue to eat this stuff—it’s not because they’re ignorant, it’s not because they’re evil. It’s because there’s a large component of our decision-making that isn’t reasonable. The challenge is to persuade people, or show people, even those parts that aren’t reasonable, things like cravings, are actually better satisfied by not eating them.”

“I think the better way to talk about it is like a series of these choices. Like how can one try to make the best choice as often as possible? The “best” meaning the choice that is in line with their values. Despite the array of values that Americans have, if everyone ate his values, nobody would eat factory farmed meat. And I think, frankly, very few people would eat any kind of meat. Nobody’s values lead them there. It’s only forgetfulness.”

Read Jonathan’s entire interview at vegnews.com.

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Alicia Silverstone “Vegetarian Times” November/December 2009

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

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Alicia Silverstone The Kind Diet Book Launch Party

Vegetarian Times magazine had the chance to do a Q & A with Alicia Silverstone for the holiday November/December 2009 issue.

As expected, Alicia had much to say about her new book, The Kind Diet, including the resources she used to provide data on the benefits of a plant based diet.

Alicia cited several well known vegetarian authors for The Kind Diet references.

“I can’t remember if it was Dr. Neal Barnard who blew my mind first or if it was John Robbins. I learned so much from Dr. Barnard’s books Food For Life and Foods That Fight Pain. John Robbins himself gave me a copy of The Food Revolution, which was his next book after Diet For a New America. I love how he lays it all out: “Here’s what they tell us and here’s the truth.” My newest hero is Dr. T. Colin Campbell, who wrote The China Study.”

You can read the entire interview with Alicia in the latest issue of Vegetarian Times on the stands now.

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Jeremy Piven Soy Milk Man Breasts

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 in Actors, Food & Drink.

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Actor Jeremy Piven is in the news alleging that soy milk might make him grow double D’s.

“I was the guy that dabbled in soya milk, but now I’ve found out soya milk has enough estrogen for me to grow breasts, I had to put the soya milk down.”

“It was a very confusing time.”

It might help to add that Piven isn’t exactly known for moderation, given the fact as a self described “fish eating vegetarian,” he ate so much seafood it gave him mercury poisoining.

There has been controversy surrounding the risk of soy products to males.

But often the problems are discovered in those that tend to consume large amounts of the protein.

In fact, in one documented case of gynecomastia (medical term for big man boobs) found the subject in question drank as much as 3 quarts of soy milk a day.

That’s 12 cups a day.

How on earth did he ever find time to look for a good bra?

Bottom line is, you can overdo a good thing.

And men, if you’re that afraid of developing your own vegan chichis, drink some rice or almond milk instead.

via digitalspy.com

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Warren G Might “Regulate” With Vegan Diet

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 in Food & Drink, Male Singers, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.

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All you hip hop children of the 90s will be happy to learn Warren G has released his 7th album, The G Files.

But this isn’t the 90s anymore and G Funk is getting older just like the rest of us and he’s seriously rethinking his lifestyle, especially since his Regulate mate Nate Dogg experienced a stroke in his 30s.

From omaha.com:

Q. How’s Nate Dogg (who suffered his second stroke of the year in September)?

A. He’s in slow recovery … in therapy. He’s progressing real good. We’re praying for a fast recovery.

Q. Did his stroke come as a shock?

A. It was an eye-opener for everyone. We’re all getting older. When you hit 40, I’m not 40 yet, but when I do that’s when it’s time to think about all these diseases like prostate cancer. I’m going to have my system clean. Hey, I might become a vegan. You never know. I need to exercise more. Right now I’ve been eating a little bad lately. I had McDonald’s the other day. I don’t have too much fried food. When we do cook fried food at home, I try to cook it in olive oil.

Q. You know it wasn’t just the fried food that got Nate.

A. Yeah. But we all need to take better care of ourselves. Once Nate gets up and running, he needs to.

Regulate that olive oil, man.

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