Vegetarian Star

Surfer Anastasia Ashley was recently featured on MTV’s World of Jenks, a documentary that explores the lifestyles, views and careers of different people.

Ashley is a vegetarian who’s done a PETA ad for the diet and lifestyle, Ocean Creatures are Too Beautiful to Kill.

World of Jenks followed her as she prepared for the 2010 US Open of Surfing in August.

“I always felt tired when I used to eat meat—I got sick of that,” Ashley explained to Peta2 during an interview. “Also, I wanted to start a serious training/nutritional program for my surfing competitions. I tried it out (not eating meat) and loved it—I felt so healthy and energetic. I’ve never looked back since!”

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Daniella Monet PETA

Daniella Monet recalls the day she had to dissect an animal in class.

“The one memory I have, as far as dissecting goes, is in elementary school. I cried—a lot—and I was actually sent to the nurse’s office, and I used the phone to call my mom and say that I couldn’t do it.”

“It’s gross. It’s sad. I do think teachers should provide an alternative…And if kids stand up for themselves … it’ll definitely make a world’s difference.”

Hoping other adolescents won’t go through the same experience, Monet is posing in this PETA ad titled, “I Choose Not To Dissect.”

If you’re looking for an alternative to dissect for yourself, your child or students, you should know…there’s an app for that!

The Frog Dissection application by Emantras Inc. gives the educational experience of science class minus the guts and flesh of a real animal and having to fight with your ethics or the school board on making the decision to dissect.

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Now that Vanilla Ice is into vegetarian and more sustainable eating, he might consider resurrecting his rap career by busting rhymes in favor of organic products, like Yeo Valley (and yes, pronounced “Yo Valley”) Organic in the UK has done to promote its organic dairy.

Featuring sexy, pasture fed cows, good looking gents and an attractive female doing a solo, this Yeo Valley commercial promotes organic milk like it’s the new bling.

Lyrics like, “I’m rollin’ in my Massey (a type of tractor) on a summer’s day/chugging cold milk while I’m baling hay” and “approach is common sense/harmony in nature takes precedence,” explain Yeo Valley’s business principles in a catchy, hip-hop manner.

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Australian twin sisters and singing duo The Veronicas posed with some props you’ll probably never find with them on stage–skinned, dead animals representing what’s left after the material obtained for making a fur coat is ripped off them.

“[W]earing fur is unnecessary and unacceptable,” explained Jess Origliasso.

With so many fur-free retailers located at your local mall or shopping center, is it really that hard to choose compassion over killing?

A behind the scenes interview with the sisters can be viewed below.

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Biz Stone is talking to himself in Stolichnaya Vodka‘s new ad campaign featuring the tagline, “Would You Have A Drink With You?”

Stone’s alter ego is much like Moby in a similar video where his evil twin derides his every accomplishment.

“Did it ever occur to you that Twitter is just a constant stream of meaningless babble?” Stone asks Stone.

“You’re not seeing the big picture,” Stone said. “Astronauts are tweeting from space. And the pace of business changed forever.”

Several celebrities who have starred in the Stoli campaign include Julia Stiles and Hugh Hefner.

Stolichnaya Vodka, like the Twitter co-founder, is vegan-friendly.

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Pippa Black, actress on NBC’s Outsourced, is voicing her concern for factory farms in her PSA for vegetarianism done for PETA.

“Factory farming is a breeding ground for disease,” Black says. “These animals are living in their own wastes.”

And that’s just the beginning.

Like many PETA videos, Black’s testimony is mixed with images from real farms, demonstrating the horrors that animals endure, such as chickens being de-beaked and cows being branded.

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In an interview on The Leonard Lopate Show (the audio of which can be heard below), food author and flexitarian Mark Bittman shares a concern about getting sick from prepared, bagged produce that most of the public would naturally have after hearing of the outbreaks of illnesses over the years. Although he recommends a salad a day, he’s not so sure that salad should come from a bag.

“My only concern with the bagged stuff is whether or not it’s going to poison you or not. The convenience of cut up vegetables…what could be more convenient than that, as long as you’re not going to get salmonella from that. And I can’t answer that. I’d like to see our food safety system in a place where if people want to buy more conveniently prepared vegetables, they could do so without worrying about it.”

The convenience of bagged fruits and veggies have not come without consequence. There’s the occasional found frog leg in the frozen vegetables. The inedible glass pieces found in frozen peas. However, it’s usually contamination with e. coli or salmonella that leads to widespread sickness and fear of eating things good for you. Just when you thought it was okay to eat bagged spinach again, Consumer Reports recently conducted tests of 16 brands commonly found in stores and found, in the sanitation and contamination levels, there’s room for improvement.

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Stewie, a 5-year old Maine Coone, has just made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Longest Cat. At 48 1/2 inches, Stewie is just a tad over 4 feet, making him as tall as your average 10 year old boy and long enough to ride the exciting rides at the carnival.

Stewie’s owner, Robin Hendrickson of Reno, Nevada, says Stewie’s fame and presence make him the perfect candidate to teach children and others about caring for animals. For some children, it will at least scare them into being nice to kitties.

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