Vegetarian Star

We’re sure Jamie Oliver likes naked women, but probably not attacking him in this manner.

When we told you British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s “Save Our Bacon” television show would educate people on the conditions some farm animals live in, we thought it might be a UK Prop2 2-like step forward in encouraging better treatment of animals before slaughter.

Oliver advocates buying British pork, versus cheaper pork produced elsewhere where animal welfare isn’t considered.

While some may be thankful for this small potential advancement, PETA is not satisfied and has targeted the celebrity chef for protests.

“The answer to saving pigs is not to buy British pork, it’s to go vegetarian,” PETA said, according to the UK Telegraph.

A spokesperson for Oliver, however, is defending him, saying Oliver is a “big supporter of animal welfare.”

“They do seem to be protesting against somebody who is trying to help the situation,” he said. “It’s a slightly odd place for them to be protesting but nonetheless they are welcome to do that. My main concern was that they would get cold. In the programme we never said that the British pig farming industry is completely whiter than white, we did a very balanced programme.”

His reference to “getting cold” refers to the naked, pregnant mothers who were caged outside his Fifteen Restaurant, meant to mimic conditions pigs often endure on animal farms.

Is there any truth to Oliver’s spokesperson’s statements? Could it be that PETA bares down too hard at times in their quest to make everyone vegetarian that they compromise efforts of those who at least are trying to improve some parts of the meat industry? Is it unrealistic to expect everyone to go completely veg and should activists spend equal efforts ensuring those animals that will eventually be eaten be treated as humanely as possible before and killed without pain?

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New York Magazine recently did a recap of a Real Housewives of New York City episode, a reality TV show on the Bravo network featuring healthy foods chef Bethenny Frankel.

In a classic Siskel & Roeper deal, each housewife got the thumbs up or down, but Bethenny won columnists Chris Rovzar and Jessica Pressler over.

Her vegan baking didn’t, though.

“Bethenny suffered through everyone’s dating advice (“Why does everyone think I’m like Shrek or something?”), behaved through her drinks date with LuAnn, and amazingly, did not visibly dry heave when Alex told her she met Simon when she was trolling online for sex. She was matter-of-fact about her fellow housewives’ shortcomings (“I think that Ramona’s a little competitive with LuAnn”) and kind in that she didn’t reveal the reasons for her non-feelings for the guy from STK on-camera. (We’ll say it for her: He’s not hot enough. There.) Plus, her eye makeup was really well applied. So Bethenny, you won this round. Please don’t send us any more vegan cupcakes, though.“

Aw, come on guys. Who doesn’t love a vegan cupcake?

Bethenny’s company, Bethenny Bakes, offers a wide variety of egg and dairy free goodies. Not to mention she’s promoted veggie dips with Pepperidge Farm for the Super Bowl and made videos demonstrating tofu with eggless spread and open faced Boca Burger sandwiches with pesto.

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OMG! Don’t watch this while you’re hungry.

Bethenny Frankel showed us how to combine Pepperidge Farm products with hummus for healthier dips for the Super Bowl not long ago, and we dug up a video in the archives of her demonstrating quick and easy vegetarian lunches.

The Real Housewives of New York City star says these are the foods she eats everyday, which include Open Faced Pesto Boca Cheeseburger with soy cheese on sprouted grain bread and Tofu Salad Sandwich with Greens with vegan mayonnaise and Spike Seasoning.

If you aren’t in the kitchen raiding your refrigerator by now, you can watch the video to see how Bethenny demonstrates making these foods before you attempt them.

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We featured a post earlier today on “Real Housewives” star Bethenny Frankel teaming up with Pepperage Farm foods to reinvent traditional party dips to healthier versions.

Here’s a video of Bethenny talking about two of the dips, Hummus and Blue Cheese. The secret ingredient to the hummus dip? Soy sauce!

Thanks to Scott for the heads up on the tip!

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Bethenny Frankel, celebrity natural food chef and star of Bravo Network’s, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” has teamed up with Pepperidge Farms to encourage football fanatics to have healthy, wholesome snacks on game day.

Too bad they won’t get to watch the veggie porn ad as well.

Frankel, although not known as a vegetarian, has long been an advocate for healthier eating choices and started Bethenny Bakes, a company that offers egg and dairy free baked goods and custom tailored meals for clients with special diets, such as vegan.

One of the recipes she’s offered for Game Day is a vegan Lemon Basil Hummus Dip served with Pepperidge Farm® Baked Naturals Toasted Wheat Crisps.

It’s great that Bethenny has chosen to make a traditionally vegetarian dish mainstream by suggesting it as Super Bowl grub.

Now maybe more husky, burly men will include chickpeas on the shopping list with Coors beer during the next big sports night.

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The vegan dinner provided at the screening of Nigel Barker’s A Sealed Fate was catered by none other than Iron Chef Cat Cora, according to HollyScoop.

Months ago, Cat teamed up with Morningstar Farms, a vegetarian Frozen food brand, to teach her fans how to incorporate healthier, quick meals into their diets.

“Morningstar Farms and I have come up with some easy ways to make eating well more manageable for the home cook,” she had said. “I want families to understand that good food doesn’t require hours in the kitchen.”

Looks like Cat can do more with vegetarian than just toss a soy sausage into the oven to bake. We’re sure the big vegan dinner took more than 15 minutes to create.

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If you love to be up at 2:00 in the morning with your credit card on hand in case Time Life is offering their latest collection of [Insert Music From Genre X] for five easy payments and you’re chowing down on an avocado and seaweed wrap at the same time, we’ve got an infomercial for you.

Celebrity Chef Bryan Au, adored by many vegan celebrities like Anthony Kiedis and Alicia Silverstone now has the very first raw food infomercial.

The author of several raw cookbooks that you can check out on his Raw In Ten website, will be demonstrating creating raw food dishes on Jan 23 2009 at 8am and 3pm on WTCN in West Palm Beach in Florida on Comcast 15. But even if you’re not in Florida, you can still call 1-800-970-2281 to make a purchase and keep Bryan’s raw show going!

Television devoted to vegan and raw is long overdue. Good luck to Bryan on making this mainstream. What’s next, a vegan Food Network Iron Chef?

For more info, visit Raw In Ten.

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The UK show Jamie Saves Our Bacon featuring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver may have a man behind the wheel, but there’s a female giving some directions as well.

Actress Joanna Lumley (The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel), both vegetarian and animal lover, will be demonstrating what pigs who are crated endure by joining students who will live in the farrowing crates for 24 hours.

Farrowing crates are the narrow cages pigs are kept in while giving birth and feeding their litters.

“The conditions they face are both physically and psychologically harrowing,” the actress told the Times Online.

The program is meant to educate on how pigs are treated on farms and to let consumers know where their food is coming from. While some have argued that it doesn’t solve the problem of animal abuse because it’s not advocating vegetarianism, it’s at least trying to incite the creation of more humane standards for the animals, which is a step forward.

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