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What advice would you give to an overly concerned grandmother who, against mom’s wishes, feeds her grandchild a Happy Meal and thinks tofu over ground beef is cause for a call to the Child Protection authorities?

“Dear Prudence”, a regular feature at Slate, is suggesting granny take her Centrum Silver and any other supplements that help the elderly think because “lack of ham and Swiss doesn’t rise to the same level of concern as beating and molestation” and “probably half the children in Berkeley, Calif. would be removed from their homes if this constituted child abuse.”

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A video of Bill Gates praising the efforts of companies that create plant-based alternatives to animal products has been uploaded to YouTube.

According to Gates, the rise of faux meat and dairy products is “quite a phenomenal thing.”

“So all these companies that are taking these animal products — the milk, the eggs, the chicken, the beef — and actually coming up with a way using largely plant-based material to make these things that are both cheaper, probably more healthy, less cruelty involved, less greenhouse gas emissions.”

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The June 2012 issue of Vegetarian Times features two athletes who power their Olympic training sessions with plant-based meals.

Mary Whipple is a champion coxswain who’s scored both a Gold and Silver medal in previous Olympic games. Dotsie Bausch is a seven-time U.S. National bike racer who says, “It makes no sense to me that anything would have to undergo one second of suffering so that I could enjoy it.”

The Olympic team hopefuls shared a pre and post workout snack they might enjoy as part of preparing for the July 2012 games.

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“Imagine a world where mothers would not feed bottles of Coca-Cola to babies, where the ingredients would not read like scientific equations, where children and parents gardened veggies together. My wish is that in the next three years, a real, real food revolution will happen. My uncompromised belief is that, whether we are British, American, or any dude on the planet, we can make great decisions if we are informed properly. That gives me hope.”

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

• Siouxsie Sioux (55)
• Andre 3000 (37)

Photo: Brocco/Creative Commons

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Chloe Coscarelli has created another unique and memorable cupcake flavor that she showcased on Seattle’s New Day.

If you remember the days of buying Hostess cupcakes with your remaining lunch money after school, you may be pleasantly surprised by Chloe’s “Chloestess Cakes.”

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Kellie Pickler is one of several vegetarian women who’ve been placed on Maxim‘s Hot 100 list for 2012.

Pickler finished six in the fifth season of American Idol and Maxim chose to chide the country for not voting her performance on the show as “hotter.”

“Seriously, America: You chose Taylor Hicks over Kellie on Season 5 of American Idol? We’re moving to France.”

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Jillian Michaels is on the cover of the June 2012 issue of Women’s Health magazine showing off what limiting dairy can do for your belly.

The former Biggest Loser coach who recently started a nutrition advice column says she recommends going easy on the moo.

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