Vegetarian Star

Mafia Wars

After receiving a request from PETA to remove a chained pit bull used as a weapon from the latest edition of Mafia Wars, Zynga president and CEO has complied with the request.

Mark Pincus will be getting his vegan chocolates from the animal rights organization very soon.

“Mafia Wars is obviously only a game, but the suffering endured by thousands of pit bulls who are treated as if they were nothing more than burglar alarms or fighting machines is very real,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman in a press release. “By removing Mafia Wars’ virtual pit bull, Zynga is no longer perpetuating the mindset that it’s acceptable to chain, neglect, and abuse real dogs.”

We just knew it was impossible for a guy who used to bring his bulldog to work to keep this horrible feature in the game.

And the employee who’s idea it was to put it in there?

No free massages at work for him for a month.

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Paul McCartney‘s Meat Free Monday campaign has just gone high tech.

The campaign that encourages eating less meat to save the environment is now being promoted as a series of mobile phone applications that allows users to read articles and essays written by Sir McCartney.

Not that Paul himself would prefer it that way.

“I’m not really techie at all and never have been,” McCartney told Today Program presenter Sarah Montague, according to BBC, adding that he still likes reading regular books.

Still, so much of our communication and information gathering is done electronically, so this is a great way to get the message out and save paper.

You’ve got your meatless education from McCartney on one application, and the VegOut application which tells you where to find the restaurant that serves lentil soup.

McCartney said idea for his Meat Free Monday campaign came after, “the UN saying that livestock is a bigger demon to global warning than the whole of the transport industry put together. This wasn’t coming from a vegetarian society but the UN.”

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Escape From The Slaughterhouse

Humans who score high in the game by Mikael Romlin would likely find themselves at a sanctuary if the tables were turned and people were factory farmed.

According to PETA’s blog, besides saving yourself, you’re also searching cages at various levels to set your friends free in The Escape From The Slaughterhouse.

Watch out for the butchers and the meat grinders along the way.

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Tofu Hunter game

And who said vegetarian was another word for lousy hunter?

Adult Swim has unveiled a game that proves vegetarians are the first in line to target and capture their prey of grains, seeds and soybean.

Tofu Hunter allows players to hunt down their blocks of curd or “tofu bucks” as they are called.

Before you begin, there is a disclaimer that the “game contains graphic depictions of violence against tofu.”

If you’re okay with that, just go ahead and click “next” to start the kind killin’!

Besides tofu, you can shoot trophy tofu, tofu hot dogs, seitan birds and soy milk containers for bonus points.

Head on over to Adult Swim to play the free online game.

Just don’t shoot any “doe tofu” or you will lose big time!

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"Eat Humane" iphone application

An iphone application from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)allows you to choose both stores and restaurants that provide more humane products sourced from animals.

For vegetarians, this can help to avoid buying egg or dairy products produced in factory farms.

The Eat Humane Food app allows you to search by grocery store or restaurant.

When searching by store, the app can display all the foods considered humane sold at the business, ranking them in categories of “Good,” “Better,” and “Best.”

Restaurants are listed by city and offer a glimpse as to what humane foods, such as cage-free eggs are offered at the establishment.

For more information on the Eat Humane app, visit iTunes.

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Biz Stone was a guest at Farm Sanctuary’s Hoe Down this weekend, and shared a few experiences via Twitter.

The 140 character social media platform co-founder turned vegan after visiting an animal sanctuary in New York.

“These creatures are special just like all of us, and since I don’t need to eat them to live, I’m going to leave them alone,” Stone told SF Gate. “And then there’s the cruelty, which is awful. From then on, I have happily been vegan.”

Stone appearing at the country line dancing event to raise money for abandoned and abused farm animals isn’t his first act of activism.

While an employee of Google Inc. in 2003, Stone convinced execs to put more vegan items on the menu, something he said everyone enjoyed.

“I have found that when vegan options are provided in the workplace, many non-vegans will go for them either because they find them tasty or they appreciate the healthier choice.”

According to its website, ARAMARK, one of the nation’s largest providers of food services to businesses, has several hundred recipes for vegetarian and vegan food that could potentially be served at workplaces where employees demand such fare.

It is also the same company that is responsible for adding so many new vegetarian and vegan options in professional baseball fields this season.

ARAMARK can offer cage-free eggs and has partnered with the Monterray Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program to shift towards sustainable seafood purchases over the next 10 years.

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Profanity and good food go together like vegan marshmallows and graham.

Maybe that’s why the developers of the online recipe generator, What the Fu*k Should I Make For Dinner? combined the two for a foul mouthed database of meals for all appetites.

The recipe generator gives you the option of choosing either vegetarian or non vegetarian food.

When you go to the home page, a suggestion is made, usually for meat like, “Try some fu*king spiced roast chicken breast.”

You then have the option of either:
1. Clicking on the suggestion for the recipe.
2. Clicking on “I don’t fu*king like that,” or
3. “I don’t fu*king eat meat.”

Choosing option #3 will then suggest various vegetarian dishes, prefixing them with phrases like, “Cook Up Some Fu*king” or “Why Don’t You Eat Some Fu*king” or “My Crunchy Granola Ass Wants Some Fu*king.”

All of these colorful words just to get a recipe for edamame hummus with spiced pita chips.

If you don’t like the current option, simply click on “I Don’t Fu*king Like That,” and the generator will give you another.

No clue why the developer felt the need to be so vulgar, but since it’s hard to find a recipe database that’s so vegetarian friendly, we think the NSFW friendliness can be forgiven.

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PETA is rewarding Steve Jobs for Apple’s decision to reject an app that let players club seals, the iSealclub application.

The Apple CEO should be receiving his vegan chocolate seals any day now.

Senior vice president of PETA, Dan Matthews, included a letter to Jobs, along with his chocolate goodies, thanking him, reminding him he shares company with several political leaders around the world that think the annual seal hunt is inappropriate.

From Techcrunch:

“On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters worldwide, thank you for rejecting the proposed iSealClub iPhone application, which has drawn a great deal of attention to Canada’s annual baby-seal slaughter. You are in good company. Global leaders as diverse as Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and the Dalai Lama have taken a stand against the slaughter, and the European Union recently voted to ban seal fur.”

“As a token of our appreciation, we will be sending you some vegan-chocolate seals.”

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