Vegetarian Star

When Ashley Judd announced her partnership with Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, Sarah Palin shot back criticizing both the vegetarian actress and the group.

Now Judd is firing back at Palin’s latest statements on Larry King Live, where she alleges Palin’s aerial wolf hunt policies are more to do with her “pet project” than concern for wildlife. Judd claims not only do the people who use moose and caribou not use planes to shoot wolves, but that Palin has voted in ways that has hurt the populations dependent on this practice and that Alaskans have voted against Palin’s policies several times.

Some quotes from the interview:

“What is really important is to maintain a healthy and natural ecological balance between predators and prey. And allowing wealthy humans, primarily urban hunters or those who are bounty hunters from out of state, to go to Alaska and for sport hire airplanes, hire private pilots to fly around and kill wolves in this incredibly savage manner, it’s not right. It is not ethical. It is not appropriate. It doesn’t make sense on any level.”

“I think what I find particularly galling in the governor’s statement is that somehow this is interfering with poor rural Alaskan’s ability to subsistence hunt. That is a distortion. In fact, there is a native tribe in the area who applied to be able to expand their subsistence hunting and she said no. This is for urban hunters. It’s for trophy hunters from out of state. And in terms of managing the population of caribou, hello, wolves do that best. That’s why the natives honor them as the animal that keeps genetic populations healthy.”

In response to Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s criticism of not paying attention to humans as much as animals:

“We can fight poverty and pollution at the same time. These things go hand in glove. Caring about human rights, caring about conservation, of course they fit together naturally. Look at Rwanda, stress on the environment, competition for resources due to overpopulation, genocide. It all works together. So it doesn’t — it’s not an either/or conversation anymore.”

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Ira Glass is the producer and host of NPR’s This American Life, who started playing poker after doing a story on professional poker players. That story wasn’t the only one that prompted Glass to make changes in his life.

A woman who ran a poultry advocacy group and rescued chickens from poultry trucks was upset because every year around Thanksgiving and Christmas (during higher consumptions of chicken), This American Life would feature a show about chickens called “The Poultry Slam,” a spin off of a poetry slam.

He featured a story on her and after visiting the United Poultry Concerns Chicken Sanctuary on the Eastern Shore, he started eating less and less chicken, eventually stopping altogether and becoming vegetarian.

Much like cartoonist Dan Piraro discovered after his visit to a Farm Sanctuary, Ira says he surprisingly found chickens with different personalities, such as the “shy” ones and the “outgoing” ones.

Here’s a video of Glass on the David Letterman Show discussing his visit, both humorously and seriously describing the events that led up to his vegetarianism.

When Glass asks Dave if he’s met any chickens, Dave sarcastically answers “not more than usually one sauteed breast at a time.”

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Sarah Palin is not a woman who sits back and takes it, and much to the disappointment of those who wanted her to go away after the Presidential election, she is one that will remain in the public eye for awhile.

He latest outcry is defending Alaska’s Wildlife Management policies and her approval of aerial wolf hunting.

She scolded the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund for their EyeonPalin.org campaign, which is meant to track what they insist is her record of ignoring scientific evidence in her decisions about wildlife and conservation.

“Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations,” Palin said in a statement, supporting her decision on aerial wolf hunting.

She referred to the group as being an “extreme fringe” one, and accused it of distorting the facts of Alaska’s Wildlife management program.

“Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times.”

Defenders of Wildlife has gotten support from vegetarian actress Ashley Judd, who recently filmed a video voicing her concern for Palin’s policies.

via Political Tickler

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Was there a particular person in your life that led you to go vegetarian?

Guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of punk rock band Anti-Flag, Justin Sane, was inspired by mom and dad.

His parents opened the first vegetarian restaurant in his home town and he was exposed to their activism as they participated in rallies while he was growing up.

Source: Radio.aol.co.uk

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PETA

Canadian gluttons unite! Silverstein band is challenging you to eat as many KFC vegan faux chicken sandwiches and tell them about it.

The guys in the band held their own eating competition between themselves and video taped the experience. Guitarist Josh Bradford took home to pig-out trophy with a whopping six sandwiches.

KFC Canada is so far the only KFC to offer the vegetarian version of their classic chicken sandwich, this coming after protests from many, including Pamela Anderson, to treat chickens more humanely before and during slaughter.

If you think you can beat Josh, or even if you come close, then take a photograph of yourself in action stuffing your face with a vegan KFC sandwich in a most creative way and enter to win by emailing the photos to StreetTeam@peta2.com by March 31st or snail mail them to

peta2’s Silverstein Contest
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510
USA

If you can’t make it to KFC, you can fix vegan food at home and capture yourself being a glutton and send them to the same address.

The owner of the most creative photo wins a Hitachi DZGX5020A DVD Camcorder.

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Citysearch.com is the place to go to find out where all the restaurants, clubs, and hot business you’ll need in whatever city you’re dwelling in or passing through. It never hurts to have a personal recommendation, though, and Cobra Starship hottie Gabe Saporta has given his top picks.

The vegetarian singer who recently posed with a bunny in an anti-fur ad admits he can only eat a couple of meals at the restaurant he’s an investor of, Employees Only, a New York city establishment fashioned after a Prohibition-era speakeasy, where all you see is a psychic you must walk past before approaching a door labeled “Employees Only,” that leads to the food.

He can, however, eat more than a couple of dishes at Red Bamboo in NY.

“I wouldn’t be doing myself justice if I omitted a vegetarian spot from my list (after all, there are only two dishes I can eat at my own restaurant). Veggie food is usually bland and annoyingly health-conscious. Red Bamboo, however, serves veggie ‘soul-food.’ Seriously. Creole soul chicken, Cajun fried shrimp and barbecue buffalo wings–all meatless! Even non-vegetarians will love this food.”

Gabe loves both LA and NY spots, so visit his City Search list to learn the WWGG-Where Would Gabe Go?.

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PETA is known for its double and triple dipping. They have several Sexiest Vegetarian Contests yearly and crowned both Oprah and Leona Lewis as Person of the Year by their U.S. and UK divisions, respectively.

Now, Pink has taken the title of yet another Person of The Year, this time in the Libby Awards held by peta2.org.

The vegetarian singer has been an animal rights activist in many causes, such as appearing on a Billboard in Times Square to protest the horse drawn carriage industry to having a beef with Prince William for his habit of shooting animals for sport.

Other celebrities that were winners in the contest include Murs, for best hip hop artist, Rise Against for Most Animal Friendly band, and Mac Danzig for Most Animal Friendly athlete.

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Some of you were disappointed in our Barbie Orr/Kristine Reinhard posts. We got responses anywhere from “Who cares?” to “Take that crap down!”

But where would a celebrity blog be without posting something off color every now and then? And folks, there is a true vegetarian theme here!

Vegetarian John Cleese broke up with vegan Barbie by leaving a message on her answering machine after she blabbed all their intimate (or shall we say his intimate) details to the media.

A response to which she replied in a text message, “Look, at least it wasn’t a sex tape.”

Everyone went after Barbie (including us) after her true age was revealed to be 45 and not 27. Now Barbie is fighting back and telling people to give it a rest.

“I am a good, caring person, who does work for charity and looks after animals,” she told the UK Mirror. “I do not deserve this!”

You can view pictures of her own animals on her website.

The mob attacked Barbie for several reasons, including faulting her for exposing John’s personal life and lying about her age. However, we’d like to know why she felt she had to lie about her age to begin with.

If you look at her photos, you’ll see she’s quite an attractive woman, who’s lean, radiant, and healthy looking. Personally, we’d love to see Barbie capitalize on this and start talking more about how her vegan lifestyle keeps her looking great at 45. If she really wants publicity, she should pose for the famous organization that only works with women when they’re naked-PETA.

That’s right. Take it off, Barbie! Woohoo…Okay, back to seriousness.

Really Barbie, start talking about the vegan package and all of its health and beauty benefits just as much as you talked about John’s package.

Okay, enough of this. No more Barbie. Unless she decides to talk to us, of course. It’s time to start ragging on Skipper.

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