Vegetarian Star

“I don’t want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, ‘There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.’ Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean. If you’re at a beach where there are sea turtles, just let them be. And don’t throw trash out on the street near coastlines. Pick it up!”

—Angela Kinsey from “The Office,” speaking about a new campaign she’s working on with Oceana to help conserve sea turtles, called Off The Hook.

It’s thought that sea turtles will often confuse plastic bags with their prey of jellyfish and try to ingest them, leading to partial or complete obstruction of the GI tract. The more plastic the sea turtle eats, the more likely it will die, but even smaller amounts can affect their health.

Defenders of Wildlife says fisheries are also a great threat to the creatures that can live up to 80 years old. The turtles will bite baited hooks or become entangled in lines or crushed by dredges.

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“I’m a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don’t use animal products, so you don’t wear leather, you don’t wear wool, and you don’t eat animal products. But you can eat french fries and stuff like that all day.”

—Emily Deschanel, clarifying that not every vegan is into it for health reasons. Fair, but you should at least try to follow a diet that excludes animal products and is better for you. Some occasional vegan junk isn’t bad. Our vote is for vegan ice cream and vegan cookies. What’s your favorite non-nutritional vegan item to chow down on?

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“The best high is green vegetable juice and meditation.”

—Russell Simmons, on the season finale of “Running Russell Simmons,” during a conversation with his assistants on the topic of crack and how to get a healthy, natural, legal high.

Juice enthusiasts will agree and probably bookmark greenjuicerecipesnow.com, which can recommend juicing books like Green Smoothie Revolution, filled with quirky sounding juices like the Eye Eye Captain (yep, that’s a glass full of Vitamin A rich carrots, which play an important role in vision health, plus kale) and The Cucapple, a partnership between juiced cucumbers and apples. Could Parsley Pep Up take the place of banned caffeinated drinks like Four Loko in the bars?

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“It’s not about the numbers. It’s about the people that we touch. I meet someone who says, ‘I love what you guys stand for.’ I started this business because I wanted to prove to myself, to the world that we could do beautiful products and still stand for compassion.”

—Inder Bedi, founder of Matt and Nat, a vegan fashion label that specializes in bags, belts, wallets and even laptop carrying cases, which were developed for Apple. Bedi recently spoke at an event at Canadian Holt Renfrew department store, where bloggers had the task of styling a mannequin with his apparel.

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“After reading “Potatoes Not Prozac” by Kathleen Des Maisons, I knew I was a sugar addict. I started to eat healthier forms of protein such as lentils, quinoa, beans and nuts, and switched from white breads and rice to whole grain breads and brown rice. I added leafy greens and fruit to my daily meals and gave up fast food and the tons of sugar, caffeine and white refined foods that were making up the bulk of my meals.”

—Kim Barnouin, vegan co-author of Skinny Bitch books and her own cookbook, Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook, to Ecostiletto on the journey that led her to eat healthier, which included learning to control her mad sugar cravings.

Potatoes Not Prozac by Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons takes sugar dependency in a step-by-step manner like drug addiction and offers diet advice to manage it. So just what exactly would a potato do that’s similar to an anti-depressant? Dr. Judith Wurtman, an expert in serotonin who’s studied the neurotransmitter at MIT explains.

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“People are uncomfortable with anyone who’s different for any reason, whether they’re vegan or gay or black or whatever. They feel threatened, and there’s nothing we can do about it but try to lead by example and not make people feel they’re on a different side. Obviously anyone who loves animals has some compassion in their heart, but it’s easy to get frustrated and block out compassion for the people we want to change. They’ll change easier if they don’t feel hated.”

—Russell Simmons, in an exclusive interview with PETA on how to treat family members who judge your veg lifestyle when you go home for the holidays.

How should you respond if grandma gives you a fur coat for Hanukkah, Christmas or Kwanzaa? Read here to find out.

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“Going vegetarian is not only a great way to trim your waist, but you will be shrinking your carbon footprint too. I love that my diet is as kind to the planet as it is to animals and my health!”

—Lara Dutta, vying for PETA India’s Sexiest Vegetarian in the 2010 poll running from now until January 9th, 2011. Bollywood babes as well as American sexy gents and ladies make up the candidates on this year’s ballot.

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Carol J. Adams "The Sexual Politics of Meat"

“That night I bit into a hamburger. Suddenly, I stopped. I thought, ‘I am eating a dead cow.’ I saw the same thing differently.”

—Carol J. Adams, feminist and author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, a book that links a meat-eating culture to the sexualization, discrimination and inapproriate treatment of women. Adams had this moment that made her rethink eating animal flesh shortly after her pet pony was shot to death.

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