Moby interviews with KCRW on his co-edited book Gristle, veganism and zoonotic diseases.

“Almost every big global pandemic starts with confined animal production,” he said.

A more recent example of this is swine flu–the disease used to make its way through pigs on farms before it got smarter and infected humans.

The musician also touches on the benefits of a plant based diet for athletes, stating that carbohydrates and protein are easier to use than those found in meat.

Moby’s interview starts at minute 22:14, but there are several clips during this program that are relevant to vegetarians, including a segment on school lunches, polenta and a restaurant that only serves mac and cheese.

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If you’ve ever attended a state or county fair, you may have felt left out after discovering all the selection of fried foods contained meat. Now, vegans can go downhill as well with fried cupcakes shown in this video.

Disturbingly delicious looking, this may be used as last resort to entice the otherwise animal product junk food addict to cross over to our side.

Mentioned in the clip is a scheduled appearance by environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill on Saturday, June 12 at 11:30AM at the Schlafly Tap Room in St Louis, Missouri. Hill became famous for living in a 1,500 year old tree in the Redwood Forest and has written the book, “The Legacy of Luna.”

The event includes vegetarian and vegan lunch and cupcakes from Sweet Art.

No word on if they’ll be fried but don’t count on it.

Visit here for more information and tickets.

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Rachael Ray joined a bi-partisan group on Thursday to help unveil changes to the Child Nutrition Act.

The bill proposes that more students have more access to school meals, including breakfasts, and would extend the umbrella for assistance for low-income students, making it easier to access meals without the hassles of paperwork that might otherwise deny them based on a small margin declaring them ineligible. It would also extend school lunch programs during the summer for certain programs like camps in rural areas.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said in a press release that although the program is a start, it doesn’t address the issue of high fat foods in school lunches or providing enough plant based options.

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Carrie Underwood has snagged yet another set of trophies from the CMT Music Awards and the vegetarian darling was the only winner to take home multiple awards.

In a competition where the fans pick the winners, Carrie received both video of the year for “Cowboy Casanova,” and CMT performance of the year for “Temporary Home.”

The singer’s most recent contributions to animals include donating $10,000 to a New York animal shelter.

Watch Carrie’s performance from the CMT awards below.

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Ellen DeGeneres brought her favorite right hand man in food, her personal chef Roberto Martin, on the show to demonstrate preparing vegetarian spring rolls.

Vegetarians just love dipping–ice cream, veggie dip, skinny dip…whoa, maybe too much information. But it’s always fun to make your own soy sauce, vinegar and spice dip for Asian treats like these and the recipe for such, along with the spring rolls can be found on Ellen’s page.

You discover something new every day and today’s lesson is black bean pasta, which is used in the creation.

“It’s so good for you. It’s really high in protein,” Martin comments on the pasta that’s a part of an entirely vegan meal.

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Lisa Bloom, an attorney and legal expert who hosted her own talk show on Court TV and has served as a legal analyst for CNN and CBS news, is a lifelong vegetarian who eventually became a vegan.

Bloom thinks the answer to climate change is to adopt a vegan diet, and discusses why in this clip taken during an interview when she attended a book signing event for Gristle, a collection of essays co-edited by Moby, on the effects of factory farms on the planet.

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Salma Hayek got a little nervous when a snake decided it wanted 15 minutes of fame and crawled onto the set during an interview. Watch as the hilarity ensues.

According to EcoViews, Salma should appreciate the slithering creature, as snakes are a part of a healthy ecosystem, since their presence as top of the food chain carnivores means other species numbers are being kept in check.

There are ways to recognize a poisonous snake from a friendly food chain checker looking for Hollywood attention, and a nice diagram that illustrates these differences can be found here. A summary of those differences, such as a triangular versus round head, according to a page from Colorado State University:

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Babies is a 2009 French documentary chronicling the lives of four children in different countries and cultures, from birth until one years of age.

The stars of Babies are Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia; Mari from Tokyo, Japan; Bayar from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia; and Hattie from San Francisco, USA.

Hattie is the child of two vegetarian parents who are very much into green living. Obviously their diet and lifestyle sets them apart from the majority of Americans, and in an interview with LilSugar, mom Susie Wise indicated the film has inspired her to allow her child to grow up thinking even more freely.

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