Vegetarian Star

The ad sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine linking McDonald’s to heart disease by showing a dead man in a morgue with a hamburger in his hand has sparked a lot of discussion, particularly among those that may not feel vegetarianism is necessary for health or that the fast food giant alone isn’t responsible for the mass epidemic of health problems.

So says Rachael Ray, who recently chimed in her thoughts to Joy Behar on HLN. Ray has confidence that many people would walk right past the golden arches if they only had enough change in their pockets to purchase healthier options. Therefore, it’s not about just wiping McDonald’s off the planet, but giving people the resources to choose better.

“It’s our problem as a country to make good food more affordable and more accessible to everyone,” Ray tells Behar.

Hear the rest of Ray’s thoughts and her suggestions for taking strides for better health in the video of the interview below.

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CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories

CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories is meant to offer a behind the scenes look at the factory farms that sadly produce so much of America’s food, such as meat, poultry, fish and dairy. The book edited Daniel Imhoff is said to provide a behind the scenes look at these operations, illustrating the conditions with more than 400 photographs and over 30 essays written by experts in the food, sustainability and animal rights industry such as Wendell Berry, Wenonah Hauter, Fred Kirschenmann, Anna Lappé, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and Matthew Scully.

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Inspired by Lady Gaga’s meat attire, Private Practice actress Kate Walsh showed up for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno dressed in fish attire. From rings of sushi to prawn on the feet, Walsh dressed head to toe in imitation pieces of seafood. For the non-fish eating vegetarians, Walsh also stuck a few pieces of edamame on her body. There were no overfished species on the outfit, however, as she told the crowd.

“These are all totally sustainable fish, by the way. There’s no bluefin on here.”

Bluefin may be a popular fish used in sushi, but it’s being fished to extinction. Some have suggested replacing bluefin with Almaco jack, also known as kahala. Kahala is a distant relative of bluefin, but without the reddish hue and reproduces constantly throughout the year without hormones or environmental manipulations.

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Former Miss Panama Patricia De Leon conducted a Q & A session with PETA on the atrocities of killing bulls in Spain for tradition. The Catalonia region has already outlawed bullfighting, but in other parts of the country, there is still more work to be done.

“We have so many beautiful traditions in our culture. Beautiful stuff. Why identify our culture by killing?” De Leon asks.

While most people are familiar with bullfighting, some may not have heard of the equally brutal “El Toro de la Vega,” footage of which can be viewed below.

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Wouldn’t it be fantastic if one of the most popular former presidents of the United States was a spokesperson for the vegetarian and vegan diet? Well, he practically is.

As reported earlier, Bill Clinton has been sticking to a mainly vegetarian diet (he says once in awhile he’ll eat fish, but not very often) since discovering it worked so well for his weight loss before Chelsea’s wedding. In an interview for Yahoo News and the Huffington Post, Clinton brings up a study he read that showed people who followed a vegan diet and put no added cholesterol into their bodies from animal products had some pretty good health outcomes.

“Since 1986, several hundred people who have tried essentially a plant based diet–not ingesting cholesterol from any source–have seen their bodies start to heal themselves,” Bill said.

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“By the way, that’s not an ad for McDonald’s in case you missed that. The hamburger in a dead man’s hand. Yes, hamburgers kill. I just thought the Hamburglar stole stuff. He steals your life.”

—Glenn Beck, during a recent segment of his talk show on the new ad created by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine that’s airing in the Washington, D.C. area linking McDonald’s to heart disease. Not that Beck is championing the ad, of course. He later goes on to sarcastically suggest that people will automatically start running to carrots and suggests that although the ad is a “nudge” to encourage people to eat healthier, future initiatives could include punishment and jail time.

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Dating In The Dark

Dating in the Dark is getting rave reviews from Vegetarian Star this season just because they’re doing such a good job of showcasing meatless babes.

Earlier in the season, the show that lets couples get to know each other in a dark room (ha, ha, not what you’re thinking) to see if they’re compatible without taking looks into account featured a swim instructor who was vegetarian for ethical reasons.

And most recently, the show had two meatless gals, Kayla, a vegan and Kahleel, a vegetarian, trying to score carrots with the men on the show.

Kayla is the stereotypical preachy vegan who wants everybody on organic, whole grain seitan while Kahleel is happy to have people skip the chicken for faux nuggets.

What’s could possibly go wrong? The two veggies want the same guy! Who wins? Watch the episode below to find out.

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Jamie Oliver has an exclusive interview with the Huffington Post where he revealed he plans to take all of his vegetarian recipes and put them into one collection.

Although Oliver insists every one of his cookbooks have always been at least 60% vegetarian, he’s giving veggies something they’ve always asked for in not having to wade through the recipes that aren’t pertinent. It will also prevent him from being assaulted by vegetables from the vegetarians who are tired of thumbing through the index to find what they need.

“Often I get cornered out by vegetarians who are going to knock me out with a cucumber. I’m like “dude, look in the back of the book. Open up the index and there’s all these little v’s.” And they’ll go “Oh, right, but we want out own book.” For many years I just felt like, “C’mon, stop being so sensitive.” But actually this year we’re going to bundle all of my vegetarian recipes and vegan recipes into one big massive, mammoth book and give ’em that book. Because it’s right. You know, in the old days there wasn’t so many vegetarians and now there’s many. Vegetarian as a general concept is a brilliant thing. We’ve got to stop eating so much meat. We are eating too much meat.”

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