Vegetarian Star

Remember Anthony Kiedis’ personal vegan chef, Laura Dakin, he hired last year? She’s now working on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s “Whale Wars” boat, Steve Irwin.

Laura is the gal who makes sure the crew gets three vegan meals a day while fighting Japanese hunters in the Southern Ocean.

She’s the Chief Cook on board and has held this position since 2005. Guess Anthony’s had to share her vegan food lovin’!

She’s got the seas in her blood-her father was an Australian Naval Officer.

Laura Dakin (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society)

You gotta wonder how poor Anthony gets by in the kitchen when Laura’s performing her duties at sea.

For more information on the rest of the crew, which actress Daryl Hannah joined, visit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

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A new year is here and everyone has started to make their resolutions, including Hollywood stars.

Us Magazine compiled some celebrities’ resolutions for 2009 and one Desperate Housewife wants a kitchen without meat.

When asked what her New Year’s Resolution was, Eva Longoria answered, “To give up meat.”

While Fergie isn’t necessarily leaning towards vegetarian, she did say she was “trying to go organic” and “eat more raw” was included in her goals, which means if she keeps this promise, she’ll definitely be chowing down on more vegan foods. She’s getting married to sweetheart Josh Duhamel in less than 10 days, so she might have to put hers on hold ’cause wedding cake usually isn’t raw.

Sneaky meat eating Aisha Tyler said she just wants to be happier. Well, now that mom and dad aren’t making her eat horrible tofu, we guess she will be. Boo!

Kanye West may have a hard time keeping his resolution, though. “My resolution is to be as nice as possible to the press.”

Ha! How long do you think that one will last?

Read other celebrity resolutions and tell us if you have any as well.

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If Newton’s 3rd Law applies to news, then if we bring you the Best Of Veggie 2008, ultimately, we have to discuss the worst. And they’re really bad. But in order of fairness, here goes…

#5: Andre 3000 Is Cheap-After bending over backwards to get him a vegan meal prepared, Andre’s waiter didn’t even get tipped! The carnis already say we’re weird and demanding. Now they’re gonna call us cheap. Thanks Andre.

#4:Amazing Race Sheep Butt Eating Incident-Vegetarian Terence Gerchberg was athletic, smart, and a promising part of the duo Terence and Sarah on Amazing Race this past season. So sad that he got taken out by sheep ass.

#3: Paula Deen’s Ham Delivery-25,000 pounds of pork nastiness delivered in the name of charity. At least we got Heather Mills donating veggie burgers to balance off this Karma.

#2: Gordon Ramsay Vegetarian Children Nightmare-The celebrity chef said his worst fear is one of his children coming home and telling him he or she is a vegetarian. In fact, this would cause Ramsay so much distress, he said he would promptly put them on a fence and electrocute them. Nice.

#1: Sarah Palin Thanksgiving Turkey Slaughter-Palin gave the meaning of “know where your food is coming from” a whole different twist as she did an interview with turkeys getting killed just over her shoulder. Wonder how many converted (to vegetarianism) after seeing this, uh, miracle?

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“When I was a vegan 15 or 20 years ago, it was a lot more difficult. First of all, no one knew what the word “vegan” meant and there weren’t very many [veg] restaurants. When it came to traveling it was especially hard, but now almost every decent-sized city has health-food stores and vegetarian restaurants; people do seem a lot more receptive to the notion of someone being a vegan now than they were 20 years ago.”

—-Vegan musician Moby, in an interview with Veg News on how the world has become more accepting of a vegan diet.

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When it comes to defining a vegetarian diet, most would agree abstaining from beef is a no brainer. But some have different standards when it comes to eating fish and other seafood, pescetarians, as they are called.

But Morrissey doesn’t have any doubts about sea food and took time to educate one of his former valets who spilled the beans that Morrissey will fire anyone caught eating meat while working for him on tour. More from Monsters and Critics:

“I asked what the view is on fish,” Andrew Winters told Britain’s The Times newspaper. “Sea food is sea life, I was informed, so the same rule applies.”

He was applying as a valet for a two week tour with Morrissey when inquiring about the “requirements” of the job.

So beef, poultry, and sea life can all get you canned. Or an ugly shirt.

Winters was fired after one day (but not for eating sea life).

The road manager told him he didn’t do anything wrong and said, “It’s nothing to do with you, really. It could have been the shirt you were wearing, your haircut, anything. Please don’t take it personally. This happens.”

No, sometimes Morrissey just wants to say “sea ya!”

Photo: caligvila on Wikimedia Commons

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Eric Clapton is not a social butterfly. But when he shoots a butterfly, or other creatures perched in trees or roaming on the ground, he gets the boost of what Chardonnay does for the shy and what doctors claim Paxil does for the socially phobic.

“I’m not really that gregarious,” he said, according to Contact Music. “And shooting with groups of people up and down the country has taught me a lot about how to get on with my fellow human beings.”

Unless you shoot with on his way out of office Vice President Dick Cheney. Then, you’re taught a lot about how many different places a bullet can lodge in the body without causing permanent damage.

This is starting to make Pamela Anderson sound like a doctorate candidate now, with her theory that men shoot because there’s something wrong with their own equipment. You can probably guess she was talking about a different gun, but still the elements are there.

Clapton can’t get it on socially, so he hunts for fun to feel good, thus turning him into the life of the backwoods party.

There are a plethora of other activities to help bond with humans, like a nature walk without the shoot ups, an afternoon of watching sports, or even a night at the, ahem, “gentleman’s club.”

But for Clapton, who also co-owns a hunting and fishing supply store, it’s unfortunate he can only get his game on by targeting other game.

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Actor and comedian Jimmy Fallon will be replacing Late Night host Conan O’Brien next spring on March 2nd, and he’s picked The Roots to be his house band.

Scratch, Rahzel, Black Thought, ?uestlove, Hub, and Malik B. all once recorded a video advocating vegetarianism. The band has been through some changes, Black Thought and ?uestlove are the only great men remaining who appeared in that video and it’s not certain whether other band members are vegetarian, but The Roots has generally been thought of, as a veg band.

Incidentally, Kevin Eubanks, a musician on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, is also a vegetarian, and was voted the sexiest male vegetarian in 2007.

Break out the hummus and pita chips. Late night TV just keeps getting veggier.

Source: Paste Magazine

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Bryan Adams exposed himself to Rachael Ray. Geez, we thought he was a gentleman.

Actually, he still is. He just opened his refrigerator to the celebrity chef for her Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine in the December/January 2009 issue, where you’ll also find his favorite Pineapple-Ginger juice recipe, which he drinks every morning.

His fridge is obviously stocked similar to what we told you was in his shopping cart, such as wholesome vegan foods like medjool dates.

Those who follow him know he’s been a vegan for 20 years and he even switched to a completely raw diet for awhile, which he claims during that time he never got sick.

“I didn’t even have a headache—it was unbelievable,” he said. “So now I still try to eat raw about 50 percent of the time.”

So take that, Bijou Phillips, who recently said she was going back to Atkins to lose weight and being a vegan made her sick all the time.

Adams has a self-portrait in front of his fridge-probably to remind him of how gorgeous his body looks so he’ll keep eating vegan.

Read his interview with Rachael Ray, and hear how he’d love to invite her over for a 30 Minute Meal of cheeseless rigatoni pasta with pesto sauce.

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