Comments Off on “I Like Vegetables” Rap By Parry Gripp (Video)
How about a little rap music to start off the weekend?
Musician Parry Gripp has released “I Like Vegetables,”–a catchy tune with a beat that incorporates a love for all things that grow from dirt or from trees and manages to avoid the corny, roll your eyes effect that some jingles that try to convey something serious or educational do.
“Fancy Cars, you can’t sell to me. I spend all my money on celery,” raps Gripp who later adds he’s “notorious” and “nefarious” because he doesn’t “spare one spear of asparagus.”
If the First Lady is looking for a theme song to her “Let’s Move!” campaign, her search should end right here.
Comments Off on Meatless Mouthful–Moby Slams Industrial Meat, Dairy, Eggs
“Industrial animal production destroys everything it touches. It destroys the animals, it destroys the workers, it destroys the communities, and it destroys the people who consume the animal products… Unfortunately, the people who produce meat, the people who produce dairy, and the people who produce eggs – they’re lying to you. So do what you can, educate yourself, know where your food comes from, and then make the ethical choice.”
—Moby, in a PSA against the large-scale industrial production of animal products for food.
Comments Off on “Home On The Range” CD Benefits Farm Sanctuaries
Compassionate Farming Education Initiative and Planet CD NYC have collaborated with several popular musical artists to produce a CD that benefits several farm animal sanctuaries, including Woodstock Sanctuary, Happy Trails, Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Animal Acres and Kindred Spirits.
Comments Off on Meatless Mouthful–Moby On The Ethically Lazy Vegan
“Yeah, I like being vegan, I think it’s good for my health. But honestly, one of the main reasons I’m vegan is because I’m ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.”
Social Distortion’s Mike Ness once said in an interview there were so many parts of him other than his music side people weren’t familiar with, including his spiritualism and vegetarianism. Ness just got more public with one of those sides in a new pro-vegetarian ad for Peta2.
Comments Off on Jonathan Mann, The “Song-A-Day” Guy, Exclusive Interview With Vegetarian Star
A few weeks ago, we featured a catchy little song about vegan protein by Jonathan Mann, the guy who’s gained national attention for writing a song every day since 2009. Best of all, he gets PAID to do it, and his written jingles for the likes of people like Steve Jobs.
When he doesn’t have his hand in the vegan cookie jar, Mann is either writing, singing or uploading his creations to YouTube and his site, Songatron.com. Vegetarian Star was lucky enough to catch him when was wasn’t doing either! Here’s the exclusive interview.
Why did you decide to start writing a new song daily?
It started in 2009. I got a flyer for Fun-A-Day, which is a project where folks are invited to make one piece of art for everyday in the month of January. I decided to keep going because it’s been a great exercise for revealing the “good” songs that are inside of me, and it’s also been a nice, media friendly calling card. Also, I really enjoy the back and forth with my YouTube based audience.
A little technical question: RockCookieBottom.com and songatron.com have pretty much the same content. Can you explain more behind the two website names?
Rock Cookie Bottom was a tumblr blog that I had had just laying around for a while, and when I started Song-A-Day, I used it to post all the videos. It had a bunch of things lacking, however, so eventually I got songatron up and running. Which is better, but still lacks, I think!
I read you named the first site “rockcookiebottom” because you have a love for baking cookies. I’m assuming these are vegan cookies. Tells us your favorite vegan cookies to bake and eat.
Do. Bake. Too. Many. Cookies. Ivory said something like, “You’re going to reach the rock cookie bottom of your cookie making!” in reference to how often I make them. It’s a very emotion based thing for me, cookies are tied to being a kid and baking with my mom. I mostly go off of Colleen’s [Colleen Patrick-Goudreau] recipe in “The Joy of Vegan Baking”, though I’ve tried a bunch of others and have been known to…ahem…experiment.
Obviously, we really love the vegan song you sing with your girlfriend Ivory King, “Vegan Myths Debunked.” What was your motivation for writing this?
You know, I think it just kind of happened. We always get asked all these questions, so it seemed natural to turn them into a song.
Those three finalists starred in their own commercials that were aired during ITV1’s This Morning Show, cooking their dishes and asking viewers to vote for them.
In the end, between Kate Ford’s hearty mushroom, ale and puy lentil pie, Susan Edward’s butternut squash and spinach lasagne and Robert Stordy’s vegetarian moussaka, only one was chosen to be included in the food line.
Watch Paul McCartney himself announce the winning dish, which will hit the stores in August, below.
Comments Off on Prince Swears Against The Hot Dog On George Lopez (Video)
One Sexy MF named Prince was a guest on George Lopez where he talked about the effect of the Internet on the music industry, the middle man in concert ticket prices and of course, his vegetarian diet.
Prince thinks a hot dog is one of the worst foods out there and the ingredients in them are so obscene, Prince can’t even say them on television, given the fact he tries to abstain from cursing, which adhering to a plant-based diet may also help him do.
The new word for anything 4-letter is now “artichoke.”
“If I can stop swearing, everybody can stop swearing,” Prince said.
