Vegetarian Star

Damien Hirst, the artist famous for featuring art that consisted of dead animals preserved in formaldehyde has announced he’s no longer as morbid and will start painting instead.

Apparently, dear old Damien used to be embarrassed by his paintings, so he hid behind 20 feet tall chemically preserved mammals-some of which were dissected- instead.

Compensation works so strangely.

“It felt awful for two years,” Damien said. “The paintings were embarrassing and I didn’t want anyone to come in.

“I thought if I die now, people are going to find these paintings and it’s going to be horrible.”

He still thinks his paintings won’t be received well by critics, but at least he’ll shock average people and that’s a good thing.

“People are not shocked by animals in formaldehyde any more, but they’re shocked that you’re picking up a brush and a canvas and going backwards.”

via news.bbc.co.uk

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Find out more about Mario Barth at peta2.com.

Celebrity tattoo artist Mario Barth has posed in a PETA ad against fur, Ink Not Mink.

Here’s a video of Mario talking about his thoughts on that particular fashion.

“I can’t even believe we still talk about fur. That word should be cut out from the dictionary,” Mario says.

Watch the clip and check out Mario’s tattoos on his upper body.

He’s got a colorful coat of his own!

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Mario Barth "Ink Not Mink" Ad

Mario Barth is the celebrity tattoo artist!

He hosts the annual Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth and decorates celebrities and regular people at his studio Starlight Tattoos.

He’s inked down the bodies of Jason Kidd, Fieldy of KoRn, Nikki Sixx, My Chemical Romance, rapper Jim Jones and Tommy Lee, who’s even had his own “Ink Not Mink” ad.

Shown here is Barth coming out to urge tattoo fanatics that while it’s okay to play with your own hide, it’s best to leave animals’ alone.

“Be comfortable in your own skin and let animals keep theirs,” the ad reads.

BTW, have you ever stopped to think if your tattoo is vegan?

Parts of the ink solution, such as color pigments can sometimes be derived from animals, and additional ingredients like glycerin may also be unveggie friendly.

It’s always best to investigate.

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The Dalai Lama has been quite a busy man.

At the age of 74, he has spent the last two months visiting Taiwan, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Poland and has now embarked on a North American tour.

At his recent stop at the Peace Summit in Vancouver, there were several celebrities on the guest list, including vegetarians Christie Brinkley and Steve Martin.

The Dalai Lama himself follows a mostly vegetarian diet, but has been criticized in the past, most publicly by Paul McCartney, for following doctors’ advice that he needed meat when he was ill.

After the Dalai Lama stated, “As Buddhists we believe in not causing any suffering to any sentient beings,” Paul wrote to him and said, “Forgive me for pointing this out, but if you eat animals then there is some suffering somewhere along the line.”

via vancouversun.com

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You already know the desserts at Erin McKenna’s BabyCakes bakery are vegan and made with good for you ingredients like coconut oil.

Now, notable photographer Ryan McGinley shows they can be incorporated into a “healthy” New Yorker’s diet.

McGinley recently described his cupcake experience with Michael Stipe in the New York magazine weekly article, The New York Diet.

Apparently Babycakes cupcakes, coconut water, and vodka make a great balanced dinner.

“For dinner, at 8 p.m. I had cupcakes from Babycakes at Michael Stipe’s new apartment. It was a pre-housewarming, pre-curtains-on-the-windows party; he hadn’t been in town for three months. We drank coconut water and vodka…That was sort of dinner-ish.”

If you’re concerned about Ryan’s nutritional deficiencies, you’ll be happy to know he had another “dinner” at 3A.M, which consisted of a salad of arugula, roasted beets, tomatoes, green beans, new potatoes, broccoli, red onions, zucchini, and fresh fennel,  along with ravioli with ricotta.

Read Ryan’s entire article at newyork.grubstreet.com.

via babycakesnyc.com

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If you have a craving for some vaudeville action, you should check out the performing dance troupe, Lucent Dossier.

If you have a craving for some vegan tacos, troupe member Dream Rockwell can direct you to the Los Angeles food stand to satisfy that urge too.

The dancer recently spoke with blackbookmag.com about her entertainment career, when she revealed she powers her endless energy from a vegan diet.

Where is the best taco truck? You’re vegan right? Can you dish on taco trucks?
Oh yes, I can actually. Playfood. The guy who runs the taco truck is Taran Smith. He makes the most amazing vegan food. He makes vegan cheese. His specialty is making vegan cheese and vegan ice cream, and they are both incredible. He makes tacos off his vegan taco truck.

Dream is talking about the raw cashew vegan cheese, Playfood, created by the former Home Improvement star, Taran Smith.

We’ll emulate Dream’s taco diet. She can keep the pyro techniques to herself, though

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“If you would spend just a little bit of time learning about the consequences of the choices you make each day — what you buy, what you eat, what you wear, how you interact with people and animals — and start consciously making choices that would be beneficial rather than harmful.”

—-Jane Goodall, noted primate researcher and vegetarian, in an interview with the latimes.com.

via veggieboards.com

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Today is Prince William’s birthday.

You may or may not care, depending on your fan meter, but you should know that his grandma wants to make the Royal Palace a little more green.

After meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama, where some scandalous touching took place, The Queen and Mrs. O hit it off. Queen Elizabeth has decided to follow her friend’s latest trend and plant organic vegetables in a 40 acre lot in the back of the Palace.

The garden will have runner beans, leeks, beetroot, and an endangered variety of climbing French beans called Blue Queen.

This will be the first time since World War II that plants have been grown at the Palace.

Mrs. Obama recently broke ground for the White House garden and last week invited local children to harvest and eat lettuce and snap peas.

via wowowow.com

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