Vegetarian Star

Fern Britton! You’ve just finished a 10 year run on Britain’s popular daytime TV show This Morning. What do you plan to do next?

I’m getting down and dirty in my garden!

Yes, Fern Britton doesn’t have Disney World in her plans after retiring from the ITV show that Heather Mills recently appeared on to promote her cooking skills.

But a vegetable garden sure is!

Along with learning to paint, play the piano, and speak Italian, Britton said she wants plant a vegetable garden at her Buckinghamshire home.

Michelle Obama planting arugula at the White House, The Queen of England and her leeks at Buckingham Palace…who’s next?

Is this a wonderful trend that many other well known names will follow?

There’s no better way to get back to basic, healthier ways for both your body and the planet than to grow and consume your own produce.

If you’re interested in developing a green thumb, check out these 7 Tips For Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden.

via UK Daily Mail

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Photo: Samantha Appleton

Recently Barack Obama hosted chef Bobby Flay and several men from local D.C. schools at the Kick Off Young Men’s barbecue on the White House South Lawn.

This makes, what, strike three?

Ray’s Hell burger visit with vice president Joe Biden, the Cheeseburger incident at Five Guys, and now a barbecue on the White House lawn.

Grilled steak, corn, and chicken were on the menu, but no where on the White House blog did it mention a veggie burger.

Mr. Obama doesn’t appear to be practicing what he preached last year on the campaign trail when he said encouraging Americans to eat more plant based foods can clean up the healthcare mess by reducing rates of obesity related diseases like diabetes.

At least First Lady Michelle Obama is promoting eating more vegetables.

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Today is Prince William’s birthday.

You may or may not care, depending on your fan meter, but you should know that his grandma wants to make the Royal Palace a little more green.

After meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama, where some scandalous touching took place, The Queen and Mrs. O hit it off. Queen Elizabeth has decided to follow her friend’s latest trend and plant organic vegetables in a 40 acre lot in the back of the Palace.

The garden will have runner beans, leeks, beetroot, and an endangered variety of climbing French beans called Blue Queen.

This will be the first time since World War II that plants have been grown at the Palace.

Mrs. Obama recently broke ground for the White House garden and last week invited local children to harvest and eat lettuce and snap peas.

via wowowow.com

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Great minds must think alike!

We recently gave props to Tila Tequila and First Ladies Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy for speaking out against the fur industry and proclaiming their fur-free status!

Now, Russell Simmons has blogged at the Huffington Post, giving praises to the above individuals for the actions.

“Our blogger, Tila Tequilla, trumped all of our other celebrity bloggers by handing in the most viewed and commented blog in the history of Global Grind on the subject of animal abuse.”

“…Michelle Obama and France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have declared themselves FUR FREE!!! Last week marks a shift in human consciousness.”

“We are finally, after years of going head to head with the fur industry, changing the way the world views fur. It is no longer being viewed as a way to floss and show off your status or bank account – it is now a billboard of cruelty on people’s back.”

Read the rest of Russell’s post at Huffingtonpost.com.

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France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy recently came out of the fur closet and revealed she doesn’t wear fur, and although she may have worn it back in her old modeling days, any fur that’s on her bod now is fake.

“I do not wear, buy or own fur,” wrote France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, in a letter obtained by G2, to Dan Mathews, senior vice president for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals U.S. “Every designer who kindly lends me clothes for public appearances can tell you that I do not accept to wear fur pieces, even when they’re only a small part of the outfit.”

Not to be one upped, U.S. First Lady, Michelle Obama, recently made a statement echoing Bruni-Sarkozy’s style. It was shorter, but still got the point across.

“Mrs. Obama does not wear fur,” Michelle’s deputy press secretary Semonti Mustaphi confirmed.

Now that’s a policy that doesn’t need debating!

via washingtontimes.com

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Dan Matthews, senior vice president of PETA, gave metro.co.uk a few minutes of his time to talk about dressing up as a vegetable, getting arrested, loving Pamela Anderson and hating Madonna.

Not to mention getting Mr. and Mrs. President Obama in the nude for a campaign against fur.

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Next celebrity he wants to get naked for PETA
Michelle Obama would be awesome. She doesn’t wear fur and she’s so cool. We could go for the two of them, her and Barack.

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My favourite was in Hong Kong. They brought us great vegan meals and then, because we didn’t have any clothes from the naked protest, they gave us Hong Kong police department T-shirts, which were really cool.

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I was a fan of Madonna in the 1980s but she became this middle-aged witch who thought her style should be defined by wearing fur coats and eating foie gras. We had a long argument over her glamorising bullfighting in her music videos.

Ouch!

Read who else is on Dan’s fur enemy list at metro.co.uk.

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The recipients of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People gathered together for dinner recently at Time Warner center.

Vegetarian fashion designer Stella McCartney was present and of course needed some adaptions from the standard fare served.

KFSM.com reported on this in a somewhat sarcastic way.

“The only star who asked for anything was designer Stella McCartney. She’s famously vegan and could not, would not, consume the lovely steak fillet. So a “special” vegetarian plate was done up for Stella. It looked exactly like everybody else’s meal. Except hers was a cleverly disguised Portobello mushroom. She was not shunned or mocked by the carnivores at her table. But, she could feel morally superior. (Then again, what do we really know about the inner-life of a mushroom?)”

Shunned or mocked? Oh, please. Stella McCartney could eat grass at the dinner table and no one would turn a head.

Other notables who attended the event were Barbara Walters, Anne Coulter, and Michelle Obama. 

If you’re interested in learning more about why Stella made Time’s top 100, read her bio elegantly written by Gwyneth Paltrow.

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There’s a lot of hoopla going around the web about Michelle Obama touching the Queen during a recent visit to Buckingham Palace.

We don’t know if there was any touching going on at this particular event, but a dinner where a famous British athlete preferred the veggie option is worth talking about.

Dame Kelly Holmes is a double Olympic gold medalist who has set British records in several middle distance running categories, including 600, 800, 1,000, and 1,500 meters distances.

She recently had lunch with First Lady Michelle Obama to celebrate the G20 summit.

Dame Kelly gave kudos to the vegetarian meal of goats cheese starter and potato dumpling.

We’re not sure if she sampled the meat dishes or if she doesn’t eat meat, but it’s cool she preferred the veggie option!

via kentnews.co.uk

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