Vegetarian Star

Bob Barker is generally known in the animal rights movement as the spay and neuter guy, but he’s done much more for non-human creatures, and shows no signs of stopping.

The vegetarian has recently written to Principal Chief Hicks of  the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation in Cherokee, North Carolina, urging for an end to the tourist attraction there of bears being confined in caged pits.

“Cherokee has so much to offer, such as its beautiful mountains, museums, cultural and historical exhibits, Native American shops, friendly residents, and casino. The caged bears may have been a big attraction at one time but are now seen as an embarrassment to the community and should be permanently closed down.”

Barker isn’t the first to express dismay at the exhibit, as PETA says people have contacted them after viewing it with some of the following statements:

• “I was so upset with how sad these animals
looked.” —Visitor from Louisiana
• “This attraction is truly a disgrace to the town of
Cherokee and its tourist offerings.” —Visitor from
Illinois
• “[W]hat a sad life they live, with no access to
grass, dirt, trees, woods, etc.” —Visitor from
North Carolina

Barker himself is of Native American descent and spent many days of his youth at the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

via peta.org

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Cynics may claim Oprah Winfrey is doing damage control for her free Kentucky Fried Chicken for everyone stunt by featuring puppies for Chicago’s PAWS shelter on the June cover of her magazine.

But who cares? It gets the word out on adopting homeless four legged friends, doesn’t promote a kennel or breeder, and it’s history. That’s right, history, as this issue is one of the few that features another creature other than Oprah.

“That’s Sadie on O’s June cover, hugging my right shoulder, making her bid for a new life with me,” Oprah writes on Oprah.com. “Right before we shot the photo—at PAWS Chicago, the city’s largest no-kill humane shelter—she had licked my ear and whispered, “Please take me with you.””

Oprah is no stranger to doggie love, as she’s featured undercover footage of puppy mills on her show, urging viewers to adopt instead. She even dedicated an episode to her deceased cocker spaniel.

via pawnation.com

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More evidence that Jimmy Kimmel has love for veggies. Or at least the X-rated ones.

On a recent episode, he featured the story of a woman in Colorado who wanted to profess her love for tofu on her license plate, but the DMV’s dirty mind stopped her.

Vegdaily.com wrote up the story about Kelley Coffman-Lee wanting a license plate that read ILVTOFU, along with a video CNN did on the news.

Us clean minded folks know there’s nothing more to that than, “I love tofu.”

But the pervs at the DMV claim it violates their policies on naughty license plates and the plate could be interpreted by someone else as “I love to…” you fill in the blank.

Kimmel brought a prop version of the plate on stage and kept the audience in stitches as he continued to ask members of his crew why they thought the license plate was rejected. Apparently, Kimmel’s crew thinks clean thoughts too as they appeared completely dazed and confused, unable to see the hidden meaning in an innocent profession for soybean love.

As if we really believe that one…

Come out of the veg closet already, Jimmy. You know you love tofu too.

You can watch the clip of Jimmy and the X rated tofu license plate.

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Mmmm…who doesn’t love Indian buffets? All the naan, curry, and samosas your belly can hold. Not to mention most other Indian dishes are veggie too.

Vindaloo is usually made from pork, wine, and garlic. But actor and co-host of reality TV show Australian Idol, Andrew G., found a veggie version he shared with mom one evening.

“Dinner with Mum. A vegan vindaloo. I’m warm on the inside from both experiences.”

Can there be nothing better than a veg man who loves his mom? Ladies, unfortunately, he’s already taken and married to actress and producer Noa Tishby.

via twitter.com/_andrew_g

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Summer’s almost here. The sunny season marks lots of sunscreen, thongs, lemonade, and the F word. Uh, Gordon Ramsay’s F Word, that is.

The celebrity chef’s show, The F Word, follows Ramsay as he prepares three course meals at his F Word restaurant.

Rest assured Gordon will be doing much of his usual species slaughter during the show, including catching wild hogs and puffin, but at least one member of his celebrity cast moves away from the meat madness, if only for one episode.

Singer and TV personality Dannii Minogue whips up a lovely vegetarian risotto on episode 6, which is set to air on July 22nd at 9:00PM on UK Channel 4.

Gordon  may be open to the vegetarian dish, given the fact he’s expanding his horizons lately, agreeing to partake in a Reality TV show based entirely on creating plant based dishes.  Or he may critique it with his usual diatribe of profanities.

You’ll have to tune in and find out! Visit monstersandcritics.com for sneak previews of other F Word episodes.

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Ewan McGregor was recently on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Craig asked Ewan what he was doing to cope with living in LA. The Angels and Demons star replied, “Yoga and therapy.”

Craig started rambling off ways to be healthy and said, “Yoga, moisturize, therapy, and a vegan diet and you’ll live forever.”

Unless things have changed, we know Craig’s not vegan or even vegetarian yet and he might still have fears about soy and man boobs.

Many of you have the vegan thing going on. Russell Simmons likes a yoga studio that will hook you up in New York. We’re partial to Aubrey Organics moisturizers, as most of them are vegan and can be used by all veg folks. That leaves therapy….well…Dr. Phil did drop the V word on his show once.

Watch the clip of Ewan and Craig at cbs.com. The discussion which includes a vegan diet begins around minute 22.

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The votes are in! Tonight we’ll find out if Adam Lambert or Chris Allen is crowned the next American Idol.

Judge Kara DioGuardi has been crowned in her own right, receiving wings to wear for PETA’s Angels For Animals campaign.

Angels For Animals is meant to remind pet owners how dogs and cats (and any other pets, for that matter-pot belly pigs, anyone?) should be treated.

Fresh food and water every day, a clean spot to take care of Mother Nature’s duties, exercise, socializing, and lots of L-O-V-E are what Kara and PETA hope you’ll give your four legged child or friend.

Hey, if you really need to set it in your head, there’s a petition you can sign to remind yourself to do these things daily, as well as a video interview of Kara with her dog Tikki.

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King of mean American Idol judge Simon Cowell can no longer continue to play the Dr. Evil cause we know he’s just a big ol’ softie.

Simon recently gave an interview with PETA where he talked about everything doggy related-from buying purebreeds to adoption to animal care and cruelty. When the subject of past Idol contestant’s involvement in animal issues came up (like Carrie Underwood), Simon even joked that they’d have to put being good to animals on the audition questionnaire.

Here are a few tidbits:

We see a lot of dogs chained outside like bicycles, for life. What is your message to people who do that?

That’s disgraceful. The awful thing about what that person doesn’t realize is that in the dog’s mind, as he’s being chained up … that dog has put his trust in the person who’s chaining him. That dog would give up his life nine times out of 10 for the person who’s chaining him up. … For a dog, under those circumstances, just to be left alone, starving to death, lonely and thirsty, is about as low as a person can go. You’ve got to have a really warped, disgusting personality to want to do something like that. That really disgusts me.

Do you think it’s important to adopt a dog or cat rather than buying one from a pet store?

Well, I mean, if I was buying a dog, I wouldn’t buy it from a pet shop, I’d go to a rescue shelter. Or I’d go to a friend who couldn’t take care. … It’s not where the dog came from, it’s the dog. … I get really annoyed when people start telling me about the make and the model of their dog like [for] a car. … A dog is a dog, no matter what background they’ve got. … Often, the mutts, the strays have got more personality than a highly bred pedigree.

You can read Simon’s interview in its entirety here. In the meantime, check out the papparazi catching Simon in on the doggy love act.

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