Vegetarian Star

Actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. will be the Keynote speaker at the Carnegie Science Awards in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this Friday.

Ed plans to tell everyone to get involved with science, as awareness of the discipline can help the environment tremendously.

“If we had a good scientific awareness … I think the environment would fare better,” Begley said, according to pittsburghlive.com.

He cited numerous activities he took up to save money as a young adult that inadvertently lessened his environmental impact, including going vegetarian, riding a bike, and recycling. Doing these activities, he claimed, can really help you “move up the ladder.”

“When you save money from that, as I did, then you can move up the ladder and maybe buy some attic insulation, double-pane windows or a rain barrel,” he said. “It took me 20 years to be able to afford solar panels.”

Go veg now and in the next 20 years you might be able to show off your flashy solar panels to your envious neighbors.

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Elijah Wood is such a meat eating fraud.

The actor was printing photos at Cosco when a fan approached him and complimented him on sticking to his vegetarian diet for so long.

Elijah isn’t a vegetarian, and later he realized the fan had mistaken him for Tobey Maguire.

Elijah went along with it anyway.

Boo, boo, and triple boo!

Elijah is no Tobey Maguire. He is not an obsessive Real Food Daily patron. He does not hang at Prop 2 parties with his fellow veggie and animal rights peeps.

If Elijah wants his vegetarian compliments, he should earn it like every other meatless celeb does: Go veg!

via blogs.indiewire.com

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We know Kristen Bell won’t mind cooking crockpot chicken for her friends and Kelly Clarkson stuffs dead bird for the family at Thanksgiving. Now we know Eric Roberts won’t mind cooking chicken for his carnivorous friends and family.

The actor and brother of Julia Roberts spent some time in Tuscon, Arizona with his sister and a family friend where he was spotted at Mexican restaurant Senor Sammy’s helping out with the chicken cooking.

Sure, Eric may be a nice guy for helping and all, but couldn’t he have just helped with the bean burritos, instead?

via People.com

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Jonathan Slavin

Jonathan Slavin plays a nerdy research scientist on the ABC television series Better Off Ted.

You may recall us telling you that one of the best know vegan lesbians, Portia de Rossi, stars on the show as well.

But Portia isn’t the only gay/lesbian on the set of Better Off Ted who leaves cheese off her pizza if the cast and crew are ordering in. Plus, Portia’s forced to make room for him at their home when he has pizza with Ellen.

“Ellen’s been amazingly supportive of the show, so we all got together and watched the premiere there,” Slavin told Advocate.com. “They have a beautiful home that’s first and foremost a home; it feels very comfortable. There was lots of vegan pizzas, and vegan this, vegan that. I never go to a dinner party where I can eat everything on the table, so I was thrilled.”

Slavin, who’s been working as an actor since the early 90s, has played roles in Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Caroline in the City, Wings, and My Name Is Earl.

Visit advocate.com to read what Slavin has to say about Hollywood and his sexuality and how Zac Effron and Jesse McCartney are not cute.

“Those are still little boys to me.”

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Who says traveling abroad makes for difficulty in keeping your diet veg? Forest Whitaker traveled to Africa, ate vegetarian, and got crowned a chief in the process. Talk about a lucky dog!

He and actor Danny Glover recently traveled to Nigeria where they both received chieftaincy titles.

Whitaker was able to receive his title, Nwannedinamba of Nkwere in Imo State, which means “a brother in foreign land,” after using DNA testing to trace his father’s ancestral lineage.

And while Nigeria is far from Whitaker’s home in the US, he was still able to feast on several vegetarian dishes, including several rices and pastas.

“Whitaker and Glover took to the dance floor and moved their bodies to local music proudly by live performers. Soon afterwards, they settled for lunch and each savoured locally prepared dishes of Jollof rice, Semolina and Egusi soup. Whitaker, who is a vegetarian, stayed off meat but enjoyed the other dishes displayed on the table.”

Sounds like a meal made for a chief.

Do we have any African culinary experts out there? What are some great African dishes us non chiefs can whip up in the kitchen?

via newswatchngr.com

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Spoiler alert. If you didn’t watch this week’s episode of House, you might not want to read this.

Resident Lawrence Kutner, played by Kal Penn, tragically killed himself. So why did the Fox network writers need to take Kutner out? That’s because Penn’s leaving to work at the White House!

Penn worked on the Obama campaign last year and was offered a job as associate director in the White House Office of Public Liaison (OPL). From tv.yahoo.com:

“Growing up I always had two interests and two passions, one being public service and the other being arts and acting, so it’s always been on my mind, I always try to engage in different public service projects, and in the last 18 months having had the opportunity to serve on the Obama campaign, I certainly started thinking about that possibility…”

“What they [OPL] try and do is take the administration itself out of Washington, so they go into communities across the country, continue the sorts of dialogue people had started during the campaign and basically ensure that a bunch of citizens’ views about their elected officials, about their government are all happening and that they’re working effectively.”

Pennsylvania Street is far from Hollywood and so is the pay rate. Although Penn won’t be bringing in movie star bucks, he’s excited and grateful for the opportunity. 

While this is wonderful news for Kal, it’s a little sad for House fans, especially considering there’s one less vegetarian on the show. Kal leaves behind Lisa Edelstein, Olivia Wilde, and Omar Epps to share a veggie pizza during long days on the set.

Kal played Kumar in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. At the end, where Harold and Kumar ate White Castle burgers, Kal bit into veggie burgers instead.

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

• Leona Lewis (24)
• Alec Baldwin (51)

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It’s no secret that environmentalism and vegetarian go hand in hand, and what other Hollywood star to demonstrate this than Ed Begley, Jr. After all, it is his name Bones actress Emily Deschanel screams in the dark in the name of saving energy.

He recently discussed his motivations for going green as well as vegetarian.

You’ve been green before green became trendy. What made you decide to get involved in sustainable living?
It was growing up in smoggy L.A. I started in 1970 because I’d lived for 20 years, from 1949-1970, with horrible, choking smog and I got fed up with it one day. I wanted to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. So I bought an electric car for $950, started recycling, composting, I rode my bike, took the bus, shut out the lights, turned off the water. I did as many things as I could on a very modest budget. What happened next I didn’t count on. I was doing it for the environment and realized I was saving money. I was a broke actor in 1970 and couldn’t afford fancy solar panels or something like that, so I just did cheap stuff and I realized I was saving dough. I liked that, obviously. Who doesn’t like that? And I did more and I saved more dough, and so 39 years late, I’m still doing it.

I read that you are a vegetarian. Was becoming a vegetarian something you did prior to green living, or was it a part of it?
It was part of the whole environmental choice. It was a 1970 choice to be green, to eat lower on the food chain. I had heard it was better for the environment. It took less water, less land, less energy to grow 1 pound of broccoli than a pound of beef. So, for that reason, and in a humane world, the kinds of things that go on in slaughterhouses. It’s not like the old days of raising cows out in a pasture and I’m sorry Bessie but you’ve got to die so we can live. It’s not like that anymore. It’s very bad conditions in these factory farms. The hogs, chickens, cows and I don’t want to be a part of that. But for my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I’m going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good so I’m all for it.

Read the entire interview with Ed at The Examiner.

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