Vegetarian Star

Insert joke or snide remark here, but Michael Vick says he believes his activities with dog fighting now enables God to use him as an agent of change. Or something grandiose like that.

“I think I’m being used by God,” Vick said, according to the LA Times. “because all the laws have changed since my incident.”

In fairness to the truthfulness of Vick’s statement, laws have changed since he was charged, convicted and spent time behind bars for his involvement with Bad Newz Kennels.

The Humane Society of the United States writes on its website:

“In the last two years, we’ve upgraded 26 laws (state and federal) on animal fighting. The HSUS has trained more than 1,000 law enforcement officers on investigating animal fighting and paid out 50 rewards for tips leading to arrests in animal fighting cases. We have worked with law enforcement on more than 200 raids on animal fighting operations.”

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Dr. Michael Greger

Dr. Michael Greger is the director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture for the Humane Society of the United States. He publishes DVDs in quiz show formats that give loads of information on the latest findings in diet, health and nutrition.

These may be purchased and 100% of the proceeds benefit the HSUS. In case you didn’t already know it, vegetarian and especially vegans need to remember to take B12 supplements if you’re not eating foods that are rich in the vitamin, which are usually meat and dairy.

That’s right. You heard it. That wasn’t a hallucination, but you might have some if you don’t take that B12.

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Ellen DeGeneres "Laugh.Dance.Rescue" V-Neck"

Animal activists could buy this shirt for themselves to celebrate Missouri passing Prop B puppy mill legislation.

Ellen DeGeneres is selling a V-neck t-shirt through her show’s website that benefits the Humane Society of the United States.

The “Laugh.Dance.Rescue.” shirt is available in sizes small to XX-Large, all sizes priced at only $20.

Laugh.Dance.Rescue. features an outline of a puppy with the tee’s signature title printed on the pup’s head.

A portion of the net proceeds of sales from the 100% pre-washed cotton shirt benefits HSUS.

Order. Then Laugh.Dance. and be thankful for the opportunity to help an organization that works to change laws to protect millions of pets, farm and wild animals.

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Moby has donated a few pieces of original artwork for an auction that benefits the Humane Society of the United States.

The art, which can be viewed at Townsend Records, is part of a series of 16 drawings the vegan musician completed around the time of his “Wait for Me,” album release and were originally on display at the Neu Museum in London in July 2009.

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The Humane Society of the United States recently hosted a benefit gala featuring Moby as the emcee. Several stars had dog stories to tell that evening, including American Ballet Theater principal Marcelo Gomes, who once pulled a dog’s tail so hard, it fractured. Gomes was only a child and didn’t know any better and thankfully the dog’s parts healed quickly. Gomes was also probably thankful his hand was able to be reattached after the irate dog bit it off and buried it in the backyard.

Moby has the best dog story of all that evening, as he told of how his dachshund became a surrogate mother to an abandoned kitten.

“When I was about ten years old, I was walking by my town dump in Darien, Connecticut… And I heard a little mew. And I looked in a box and in this box were five dead kittens who were about ten days old, and one barely-alive kitten,” Moby said.

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Talbots

When a company reverses or ignores a previously established policy, it loses creditability. Talbots, a clothing store specializing in women’s fashions, has been on the Humane Society’s fur-free retailers list for a decade. However, the company recently listed an $89 rabbit fur collar for sale as part of its fall collection.

Word of this got out and the company received a deluge of phone calls, emails and posts on Facebook from unhappy consumers regarding the decision to reinstate fur. As a result, the company has dropped the fur offering and declared itself fur-free again. For now.

“Thank you for your concern.,” a statement from the company read. “Talbots always seeks to operate under the highest ethical standards. We have heard our customers’ concerns regarding the items offered that contained real fur. These items have been pulled from stores and are no longer available for sale. Talbots remains committed to its policy against the use of real fur in our collection.”

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Lady Gaga‘s meat dress for the MTV VMAs not only looked disgusting, but smell the part too.

The dress, designed by Franc Fernandez, was designed from REAL raw meat cuts from a local butcher (hey, hey, should we at least give him credit for not making it travel and using more emissions?). Gaga may be hot, but she’s not warm enough to cook meat, and as you may suspect, the raw dead flesh began to smell almost instantly, much to Eminem‘s displeasure.

The rapper refused to sit by Gaga and a source told The Mirror, “Marshall said he didn’t want to be sat next to a pile of raw meat all night. He said it smelled pretty bad.”

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Moby‘s interview with BlogCritics mentions his work with the Humane Society of the United States. The musician cites the organization as his favorite because of their work to protect animals at the legislative level.

“What I like about the Humane Society is how big and effective they are, especially on a legislative level. I mean, there are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.”

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