Vegetarian Star

“Trying to change the world is a one-way ticket to a sore head. You just need to try to be a good human being. And if by dong that, you inadvertently change the world, then great. Try to be a decent person, it’s the easiest thing you can do. If everyone did that, we’d all be cool. We’d feel like we were living in a utopia.”

–Fran Healy, singer and song-writer for the Britpop band Travis. In late 2010, Healy released a solo album, Wreckorder, which featured Paul McCartney. As a thank you to McCartney for collaborating with him on the album, Healy went vegetarian. An interview with Healy on his new veg lifestyle and music career can be found in the March 2011 issue of Vegetarian Times.

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He wants them. He wants them so bad. It’s driving him mad, it’s driving him mad.

Paul McCartney has posted a video on his official website inviting fans to submit their recipes for a chance to be added to the Linda McCartney line of vegetarian foods, a brand founded by his late wife. The winner will also get some face time in everyone’s kitchen, as their photo will be placed on the package with the winning dish.

To enter, simply fill out the form on the website and upload any photos. Every week, favorites will be selected like American Idol. The three finalists will be selected this month and people will then vote on the three finalists.

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Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney is getting the thumbs up from top Hindu leaders in India for his proposal of implementing a vegetarian holiday in the nation.

Statesman Rajan Zed of the Universal Society of Hinduism, told WENN, “We, as Hindus, promote strict vegetarianism insisting on not harming living creatures and renouncing animal slaughter and meat eating.”

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Here are a few of the top vegetarian stories featuring the famous and those who rose to fame because of their stance on food, animals and the environment.

10. The Apprentice is vegetarian. Brandy Kuentzel ran an eco-friendly cupcake truck before she was hired as Trump’s leading business lady. She revealed to us during an interview that she’d love to host a show with her best friend about all things sustainable. That show can’t come soon enough as we need some anti Paula Deen sausage segments on daytime.

9. A vegan baker wins “Cupcake Wars.” Chloe Coscarelli showed the world vegan is tasty. Very tasty. She won the war on the Food Network with her recipes for Ginger Nutmeg Spice with Date Caramel Drizzle, Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake, Crème-filled Chocolate Orange with Candied Orange Peel, and Raspberry Tiramisu.

8. Bob Harper invites “The Biggest Loser” contestants in home for vegan meal. Yum. Everybody was a winner on that episode, including Harper’s fans, who could download the recipes from his website. Harper showed America one of the best ways to lose weight healthily without sacrificing good grub.

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Linda McCartney Foods, the vegetarian line of foods created by the late wife of Paul McCartney that is owned by Hain Celestial Group, is returning to television advertising for the first time in 15 years, in a quest to find the UK’s best vegetarian cook.

A new campaign created by Feel Agency, with media planning and buying by Total Media, kicks off on Monday in a contest where the winning recipe will become part of the Linda McCartney line.

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Actress Emma Stone had Paul McCartney design a matching tattoo for her and her mother to celebrate her mother’s recovery from breast cancer.

While she and Woody Harrelson were at McCartney’s home dining on veggie burgers, Stone asked McCartney to draw a tiny Blackbird, symbolizing the famous McCartney song that’s a favorite by both Emma and her mother.

The Easy A actress, who described the veggie burgers as “so good,” recently appeared on The Late Show and told David Letterman the decision to decorate her body was the first–and probably the last.

“We’ve never gotten tattoos before and probably never will again. Two years ago tomorrow she got diagnosed with breast cancer, and she’s out of the woods now, which is amazing. I wrote a letter to Paul McCartney asking him if he would draw two little bird feet – because he wrote the song – and yesterday he sent them to me.”

Just a reminder that continuing to eat those veggie burgers and soy products, as opposed to animal fat laden real ones, may one day spur your recovery from breast cancer. A study recently published in the Canadian Medical Journal found women who suffered from hormone sensitive cancers and were post-menopausal had a significantly lower risk of breast cancer recurrence if they consumed lots of soy isoflavones.

The clip of Stone with Letterman can be viewed below.

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Paul McCartney and his photographer, cookbook author daughter Mary paid a visit to the Linda McCartney Foods factory where frozen vegetarian entrees like pizza, cannelloni, lasagna, spicy bean and sausage casserole and veggie burgers are manufactured.

The purpose of the visit was to sample some of the new vegetarian options, including a new veggie burger, Linda McCartney Mozzarella Quarter Pounder Burger, that will launch later this month.

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Beatles "Yesterday and Today" album cover

According to some sources, Paul McCartney wasn’t introduced to vegetarianism by Linda McCartney until the mid 70s. Sounds true, cause there would be no way Paul would have posed with raw meat cuts for the Beatles’ Yesterday and Today album cover in 1966.

The Telegraph has a story on several artists who’ve pulled a raw meat Gaga stunt and when the album was created, the Beatles wanted to make a statement about the Vietnam war by posing as butchers with chunks of meat and butchered dolls.

Advanced copies of the album created too much controversy, so the record label’s management ordered a new cover, but many of the originals still remain.

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