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“We should be interested in knowing where our food comes from. If it comes from soil that is organic, that is grown by our family farmers, we know that it’s more healthy than the food grown by big corporations that saturate the soil with chemicals and pesticides and fertilizers.Thank you for those farmers who are doing their part, doing organic farming, and who need our support. That’s why we’re here, 25 years in a row.”

—Willie Nelson, during the Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America concert, a fundraiser for the organization, Farm Aid, which supports local family farmers.

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A video on Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary features a talk with Moby, who recently performed an acoustic, benefit show on the grounds.

Moby says his favorite animals at the sanctuary are goats.

“They generally tend to have the most personality,” Moby said.

Growing up, some of Moby’s earliest memories were of him, pet rats, cats and dogs–all hanging around the bathtub. The turkey sitting next to him seems very interested in this story, but probably got a little offended that he wasn’t named a favorite.

For more information on the sanctuary, visit WoodstockSanctuary.org.

Thanks to @dakotalane for the tip!

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities today.

• Alexis Stewart (45)

• Meatloaf (63)

Photo: PR Photos

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The Humane Society of the United States recently hosted a benefit gala featuring Moby as the emcee. Several stars had dog stories to tell that evening, including American Ballet Theater principal Marcelo Gomes, who once pulled a dog’s tail so hard, it fractured. Gomes was only a child and didn’t know any better and thankfully the dog’s parts healed quickly. Gomes was also probably thankful his hand was able to be reattached after the irate dog bit it off and buried it in the backyard.

Moby has the best dog story of all that evening, as he told of how his dachshund became a surrogate mother to an abandoned kitten.

“When I was about ten years old, I was walking by my town dump in Darien, Connecticut… And I heard a little mew. And I looked in a box and in this box were five dead kittens who were about ten days old, and one barely-alive kitten,” Moby said.

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Moby Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary

Is summer officially over? Yeah, but when you’ve got a vegan rocker as hot as Moby, it can last as long as you want.

The musician will be playing a benefit concert for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. Doors open at 4:45 PM and the show starts at 5:30 PM.

Moby comes as part of the sanctuary’s acoustic concert series and will be supported by opening act Kelli Scarr.

Oh, yeah. And you will need food. How does grilled Field Roast veggie sausages, drinks and other goodies sound?

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit WoodstockSanctuary.org.

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Beatles "Yesterday and Today" album cover

According to some sources, Paul McCartney wasn’t introduced to vegetarianism by Linda McCartney until the mid 70s. Sounds true, cause there would be no way Paul would have posed with raw meat cuts for the Beatles’ Yesterday and Today album cover in 1966.

The Telegraph has a story on several artists who’ve pulled a raw meat Gaga stunt and when the album was created, the Beatles wanted to make a statement about the Vietnam war by posing as butchers with chunks of meat and butchered dolls.

Advanced copies of the album created too much controversy, so the record label’s management ordered a new cover, but many of the originals still remain.

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Now that Jason Mraz doesn’t always eat vegan, he’s labeling himself with an entirely different phrase referring to the type of food he purchases and eats.

“I’m mostly a vegan because I don’t prefer dairy or cheeses, but I think of myself more as a qualitarian,” he said. “I don’t eat anything with more than three ingredients.”

One definition of qualitarian is someone who eats foods of the highest quality that will benefit both humans and the environment the most.

If you can’t bring yourself to label your eating habits as strictly vegetarian, there are multiple green labels popping up, as Long Island Press states, that can help you describe your consumption.

Like a vegeprefarian. From Long Island Press:

“Someone who is for the most part a vegetarian, but won’t refuse a bit of meat now and then. They might also opt for certain meals without meat.”

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Paul McCartney has become the latest celebrity to reach out to NASA, urging the agency not to use monkeys in radiation experiments to determine its effect on humans.

“I believe NASA has the ingenuity to investigate the health effects of space travel without confining and experimenting on animals as was done in the old days,” McCartney wrote, reports Gigwise.

“It would be terribly disappointing if in our zeal to explore new frontiers and to learn about the fascinating universe where we live we began to regress in our treatment of the animals with whom we share this planet.”

Earlier this summer HLN journalist, Jane Velez-Mitchell hosted an ex NASA employee who quit her job in development after learning about the experiments that the European Space Agency has no interest in.

NASA has used monkeys before to test the effects of space travel on the human body.

Photo: PR Photos

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