Vegetarian Star

Leilani Munter fans will soon cheer her on as she drives her VegNation race car meant to promote a vegetarian diet for better health for people, the planet and animals.

But it will take more than a pro-veg banner on a race car to convince fans to go meatless.

They eventually will have to taste a veggie burger, sausage link or faux deli slice themselves.

“Obviously I know I’m not going to turn the NASCAR community vegan by doing this car,” the 37-year-old Munter said.

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Leilani Munter will soon circle the racetrack at over 100 miles per hour in a car that advertises the plant-based lifestyle.

Munter has partnered with 1% for the Planet, VegNews Magazine and Wildlife Works to get obtain the “VegNation” racecar.

The vegetarian driver will use the car to encourage fans to adopt more meatless meals in their diet for their health, animal health and human health.

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Leilani Munter is NASCAR’s green star.

A vegetarian with a background in Biology, she’s well aware of the consequences of meat consumption on the environment and is always doing her part to campaign for more eco-friendly lifestyles, such as her campaigns to get renewable fuels into race cars and recycling tubs at every track.

She’s now getting ready to promote Meatless Monday to her fans.

She’s sure to win more over with her Wild Mushroom Risotto, featured in the July/August issue of the Humane Society of the United State’s All Animals magazine.

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NASCAR and IndyCar owners are being praised by PETA for teaming up with Levy Restaurants to offer vegan food to its fans at several racing tracks, including Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

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NASCAR Pets Calendar

Greyhounds aren’t as fast as Tony Stewart‘s car, but they’re still impressive little creatures.

Greg Biffle is a NASCAR driver who, along with his wife Nicole, founded the Greg Biffle Foundation to promote the well-being of animals through the automotive racing industry.

Biffle has published a NASCAR Pets calendar featuring drivers like Biffle, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Tony Stewart with their non-human family members. Proceeds go to a variety of animal welfare organizations, such as spay and neuter clinics, the Humane Society and no-kill shelters.

The calendar sells for $13.99 and is available from Biffle’s Foundation site.

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“The race fans forgive me for being an environmentalist because I have a race car. That’s why they’re listening to me; I have a race car underneath me. If I was just a biology graduate, trying to ask them to do these things, I don’t think any of them would hear me.”

—Leilani Munter, to the Department of Energy, on how she is able to connect with NASCAR fans on environmental issues and not turn them off by stereotypes of environmentalists and vegetarians.

In the ARCA race on September 30th, Munter will drive a car sponsored by Operation Free, a group of military veterans who advocate energy independence and action on climate change.

via The Pitch

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Sporting News magazine is featuring one of NASCAR’s 50 Most Beautiful People, Leilani Munter.

Leilani is famous for her motto, “Never underestimate a vegetarian hippie chick with a racecar.”

Leilani set a goal to make what some would call one of the most environmentally unfriendly sports green.

Her goal is to power her racecar to speeds at 200mph with biofuel and take those dangerous curves on the track with recycled tires.

She’s placed recycling bins at the track and frequently speaks out about the benefits a vegetarian diet has on the environment.

She also maintains a blog containing earth friendly ideas and education.

Oh,  yeah, there’s also her racing history.

From Sporting News:

“Munter has been racing since 2001 and last year became the fourth woman in history to race in the then-Indy Pro Series, the development league of Indy-Car. Prior to running in the then-Indy Pro Series, she spent six years in stock car racing, earning 19 top-10 finishes and nine top-five finishes in 39 starts. In 2004, Munter also set the record at Texas Motor Speedway for the highest finish for a female driver at the 1.5-mile speedway with a fourth-place showing.”

Did you know she’s also a master at battling the chocolate war?

During an interview, Vegetarian Star learned she never craves sweets.

Now you really have a reason to be jealous.

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Last month Leilani Munter Tweeted about grabbing some vegan grub at California Vegan Restaurant in L.A.

The NASCAR and IndyCar driver who calls herself a “vegetarian hippie chick” is an active environmentalist, so it’s no wonder she knows the best thing for the planet is to go meatless.

California Vegan has been hooking folks up in the LA region since 2003.

It has several menus, including lunch and dinner, that give the vegan eatery bragging rights with offerings such as California soy chicken, the Pepper Steak “Burger,” and Thai curries featuring all colors of the rainbow-red, yellow, and green.

You don’t hear much about celebrities dropping by California Vegan as you do with other LA vegan eateries like Real Food Daily.

Maybe now that Leilani’s giving it some press, it will become the next hotspot for the vegetarian celebrities to hang.

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