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Meatless Mouthful–Angela Kinsey Wants Sea Turtles Off Plastic And The Hook

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, December 17th, 2010 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Meatless Mouthful.

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“I don’t want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, ‘There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.’ Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean. If you’re at a beach where there are sea turtles, just let them be. And don’t throw trash out on the street near coastlines. Pick it up!”

—Angela Kinsey from “The Office,” speaking about a new campaign she’s working on with Oceana to help conserve sea turtles, called Off The Hook.

It’s thought that sea turtles will often confuse plastic bags with their prey of jellyfish and try to ingest them, leading to partial or complete obstruction of the GI tract. The more plastic the sea turtle eats, the more likely it will die, but even smaller amounts can affect their health.

Defenders of Wildlife says fisheries are also a great threat to the creatures that can live up to 80 years old. The turtles will bite baited hooks or become entangled in lines or crushed by dredges.

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“The Office” Angela Kinsey And Jenna Fischer Vocal Cats And Science Of Feline Communication

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, October 21st, 2010 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Research + Science.

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HOLLYWOOD - SEPTEMBER 27: Actresses Jenna Fischer (L) and Angela Kinsey arrive at the NIVEA for Men premiere party for 'The Office' held at Boulevard 3 on September 27, 2007 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images for NIVEA)

The Office‘s Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer admit they both own pretty vocal cats.

“I’ve never had a cat who meows and chatters as much as he does,” Fischer told PEOPLEPets.com at the La Femme International Film Festival Celebrity Gala. “He’s a very vocal cat.”

Kinsey, whose character on the show is an eccentric cat owning woman, says her cat, Otter, sounds like he is always on the prowl for a female. “He’s chatty, but it kind of scares me,” she said. “It sounds like maybe a cat in heat. That’s just him [being] happy.”

Any cat owner knows felines have a way of communicating with humans, but is it actual language they’re getting across or mere vocal utterances? Regardless of the answer to that question, a graduate student at Cornell University found domesticated cat noises seem to be successful in one area in particular–getting the human to respond as needed.

In a study described as one where “no cats were harmed in the experiment, although a few human eardrums were stretched,” Nicholas Nicastro compiled dozens of vocal samples from cats and played them for human volunteers who were asked to rate them for pleasantness and appeal and examined what acoustic features accompanied each sound.

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“The Office” Jenna Fischer Hosts Kitten Rescue Furball Event

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Charitable Causes And Campaigns.

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The Office‘s Jenna Fischer hosted the 3rd annual Furball at the Skirball this weekend in Los Angeles. The event benefited Kitten Rescue, a Los Angeles based organization that aids in kitten rescue and adoption.

A vegetarian dinner was served to guests who also enjoyed live entertainment, a silent auction and a film about Kitten Rescue. This was Fischer’s 2nd time hosting the event, but she’s no stranger to cat rescue, having volunteered for the organization in the past.

“I started working with them [Kitten Rescue] in 2001,” Fischer said. “I worked with them for two or three years as a foster parent. You open up your home for a cat or kitten that’s been rescued from a shelter or abandoned, and you rehabilitate them and treat them like your own pet for a short period of time, and then the organization helps you find that cat a permanent home.”

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The Mentalist Owain Yeoman Shows His Meat Against Meat

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 in Actors.

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We had something for the guys earlier but today it’s a better ladies’ night than free cover and half off drinks.

Owain Yeoman, star in the CBS television series, The Mentalist, bares his chest for a PETA vegetarian ad.

The actor has recorded not one, but two different PSAs that you can watch, as well as an additional video over at peta.org.

Paula Abdul sang that opposites attract, but with Owain’s case, that seems to be false. He has an animal loving wife, Lucy Davis from The Office, who’s bared some skin for PETA’s Unbearable Cruelty campaign, meant to stop the use of bear fur in the hats worn by the Queen of England’s guards.

Ah, what beautiful activist children they will spawn.

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The Office’s Dwight Schrute Hates PETA

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 in Actors.

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15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Cocktail Party

On yet another hilarious episode of The Office recently, Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) decides to get even with the crew for not paying attention to his Power Point presentation on fire safety by setting up a fake fire to test their fire response and preparedness abilities.

You can watch the episode after reading this post, if you’d like.

After the room is filled with smoke and people are attempting to evacuate via the ceiling, Dwight reveals it was all just to test their fire safety knowledge.

Branch manager Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) offered to donate money to a charity Dwight hates in order to compensate for the failed experiment and Dwight picks PETA.

Safe to say Dwight’s not moving to implement any Meat-Free Mondays at the office soon.

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