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Alicia Silverstone Writes To “Dog Wars” App Maker

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Tech.

Alicia Silverstone has written a letter to the company that created Dog Wars, the Android app that’s angering dog lovers nationwide, as it allows players to use pit bulls in dog fighting scenarios.

Silverstone addressed the CEO of Google, the owner of Android and Kage Games LLC, the maker of the app.

“When I read about the new game Dog Wars, I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Silverstone wrote. “As a mom-to-be and someone who has adopted and loved rescued pit bulls, I join PETA’s millions of members in imploring you to cancel this game immediately. If one dog dies as a result of this game, you will not forgive yourself.”

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Michael Vick Speaks Out On “Dog Wars” Android App

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 25th, 2011 in Animal Issues, Athletes-Games-Sports, Tech.

Michael Vick has issued a statement on the new Android app “Dog Wars” that enables users to pit their dogs against others’ in fighting competition.

“I’ve come to learn the hard way that dogfighting is a dead-end street,” Vick said. “Now, I am on the right side of this issue, and I think it’s important to send the smart message to kids, and not glorify this form of animal cruelty, even in an Android app.”

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Jamie Oliver‘s second season of Food Revolution premiers tonight at 8/7 C on ABC.

Here’s a little clip which focuses on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s decision to forbid Oliver from entering their schools and the surprising reactions from listeners to Ryan Seacrest‘s radio show. Parents of children in the school system call in to describe in every detail why Oliver should have been admitted.

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Wayne Pacelle Announces Humane Society Dropping Go Daddy Domains

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 1st, 2011 in Animal Issues, Tech.

Since GoDaddy.com’s CEO Bob Parsons has been seen on tape shooting and killing an elephant, many animal lovers have started transferring their domain names to other hosts.

It’s no surprise the Humane Society of the United States, one of the most active animal welfare organizations in the world, is doing the same.

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If you’re a web entrepreneur and looking for a new domain name, how about dontkilltheelephant.com or gohomegodaddy.com?

Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy.com, a company for domain and web hosting services, took a vacation in Africa where he shot and killed an elephant.

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Biz Stone and his business partner and co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, are celebrating five years of saying it in 140 characters.

Stone was recently a guest on Conan O’Brien‘s show when the subject of some of Stone’s past Tweets came up. One of those Tweets was about Stone discovering Amtrak  offered a vegan burger. Stone Tweeted,”Wow, Amtrak serves a vegan burger! Nice.”

“I would not have that burger,” Conan said while laughing.

Well, that’s surely his choice, but we think Conan will miss out on some serious foodie fun!

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, February 24th, 2011 in Birthdays, Business, Tech.

Steve Jobs

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

Photo: Matt Buchanan/Creative Commons

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Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy

Edmund McMillen, one of the two men behind Super Meat Boy, has taken to the game’s official blog to discuss the feud between it and PETA. The animal rights group created a spin-off to Super Meat Boy, Super Tofu Boy, which replaces the bloody meat character with a block of tofu.

But Super Meat Boy isn’t a piece of meat, insists McMillen. Some other surprises–this super meat creator used to be a vegetarian.

“Meat Boy isn’t made of animal meat, he’s simply a boy without skin whose name is Meat Boy.”

“Now don’t get me wrong, i have NOTHING against Vegans or Vegetarians. I was Vegetarian for many years, and was an animal control officer who saved animals for a living for a long time, i empathize, understand and accept why people choose to eat, and live as they wish, and obviously i believe everyone should have the freedom to express themselves in anyway as long as it doesn’t hurt others.”

McMillen’s “beef” with PETA is what he believes is its stance on animal testing.

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