Vegetarian Star

Maxim recently unveiled its Hot 100 List and a vegan lady is numero uno!

Olivia Wilde, star on Fox’s House, tops the charts and beat out other meat eating woman like Megan Fox, Eliza Dushku, and Rhihanna.

Olivia made Maxim’s 100 Hottest women in 2008-but barely hanging on the ladder at #97.

We suspect her sudden rise to the top has something to do with her veganness. Really, we heard plant based foods do wonders for the hair and skin.

Olivia had been “mostly vegetarian” with the exception of a plateful of flipper here and there. Then, earlier this year, she made the announcement on Ellen DeGeneres she’d transitioned into a complete vegan.

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Who watched The Mentalist this weekend?

Unfortunately, it’s all business on the show and Owain Yeoman doesn’t strip down to his goodies like he did for his vegetarian public service announcement.

However, a little bit of veggieness snuck its way on a recent episode, Red John’s Friends.

After “The Mentalist” Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) helps an innocent man named Jared get out of jail, the agents drive away with the newly freed ex-prisoner, planning to utilize him to help them catch a serial killer, Red John.

The group gets slowed down as they drive through a huge mob of animal rights protesters with anti-fur signs.

Coincidence? Or is Owain putting his two cents in for suggested scenes?

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Nice little video of Rip Esselstyn, author of the Engine 2 Diet discussing how the firefighters of Austin, Texas’ Fire Engine Company #2 eat vegan during work shifts.

Rip encouraged the guys at Engine 2 to go veg after some were having medical problems like high cholesterol. According to the video, a study showed heart disease kills more firefighters than fire itself. 

Esselstyn’s book, which helped Newsweek’s David Noonan go vegan and lose weight, was written after he was inspired to go veg from his father’s research. His father, Dr. Caldwell Essestyn says, “Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.”

Esselstyn’s entire family eats vegan and it looks like the family favorite food is kale (Watch aunt Esselstyn rip the leaves off that plant, yo)

Best quote of the day starts at the beginning of the video when Rip says, “Real men eat plants and boys meat meat.”

Rip thinks in the next five years eating meat will be such a social disgrace, taking your tenderloin away from the picnic gathering will be equal to asking a smoker not to smoke inside.

While he may be a little overly optimistic, with more people choosing to at least flex or reduce some meats in their diet, Rip’s definitely onto some future trend.

via vegansoapbox.com

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Heather Mills cooked up some tasty vegan recipes at the Brighton Foodie Festival this weekend. Heather recently joined Twitter because she said she wanted to share vegan recipes and “tell it exactly like it is,” and that’s exactly what she did when she spoke about veganism at the festival.

“They just think that it’s boring nut roasts and lots of hippy people who they think haven’t washed for months but they do, but that’s not what being vegan is about,” Heather said, according to the UK Daily Mail.

“It’s about being animal friendly, saving the environment and the planet. The biggest contributor of global warming is the consumption of meat and dairy, but of course they are not going to tell you that.”

Chef Heather (yes, we can officially call her that, now) gave audience members samples of leafy green and soy beefy stir fry, creamy sweetcorn chowder, and creamy nut korma with faux chicken.

The dishes were just a taste of what Heather plans to put on the menu at V-Bites, her new vegan restaurant in the UK.

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Heather Mills has just signed up on Twitter!

Tired of others impersonating her on the social networking site, Mills said she plans to use the site to share both her vegan recipes and “feelings on any number of things,” with the intention to “tell it exactly like it is”.

You can follow Heather @heatherofficial, where she’s already put up a couple of Tweets, including one about her Brighton Foodie Festival appearance today.

“I have to prepare all the food for the Brighton Foodie festival, so psyched to be invited to cook alongside some top chefs.”

Yesterday, she also made humor to the fact that the birds were Tweeting outside the first day she started Tweeting.

“Funny on my first day of twittering, the birds in my garden wake me up at 5am, twittering.”

via dailystar.co.uk

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Although Ginnifer Goodwin used to be a cheeseburger lover, she doesn’t crave those anymore. But that doesn’t mean cares if someone else does. From the editor’s blog at W magazine:

“So many people say to me, ‘I tried, and it was too hard,’ or ‘I had to cheat,’ and I always think, ‘Then it’s not right for you,'” Ginnifer said.

“You shouldn’t have to try. For me there’s no “try” involved. There’s nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I’m being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It’s purely how I want to live my life. I don’t judge anyone.”

Ginnifer took some flack for posing in leather and silk for the W magazine shoot, which her cousin and Humane Society of the United States coordinator, JP Goodwin, explained to readers in the comments section on a post at supervegan.com.

What do you guys think of judgemental vegans? Should people make more effort to educate and change the diet of others. Or will this only turn people away?

via wmagazine.com

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We love our veggie athletes, like Georges Laraque, so much, we can’t stop talking about them.

Which is why we’re proud to bring you “10 Superstar Athletes Who Don’t Eat Meat”, courtesy of treehugger.com.

First base man Prince Fielder made the list, along with famed vegetarian bodybuilder Bill Pearl, football quarterback Joe Namath, and Iron Man champ Dave Scott.

“Dave Scott holds the record for most Iron Man World Championship victories ever (along with his rival Mark Allen, who managed to rack up an equal number of wins). The Iron Man competition, which consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a 26 mile marathon run, is one of the most strenuous physical feats in the world. And Scott won six of them, all while vegetarian. He even came out of retirement at 40 to compete again, and took second place. Today, at age 55, he still participates. In other words, this is one gnarly vegetarian dude.”

There’s just one problem, dude. Where’s Mac Danzig?

The Ultimate Fighter 6 winner and UFC contract holder has been a vegan since 2004 and has always been public about his diet to major media sources like Men’s Fitness. 

Ah, we get it. Someone must have drafted him before Treehugger got dibs.

Visit treehugger.com to view all 10 Superstar Athletes Who Don’t Eat Meat.

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Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie Sioux & The Banshees has two darling kitties she loves dearly, but can’t stand making homemade cat food for them because she has to handle chicken.

“One of them got ill and now he won’t eat cat food,” she told the Times Online.

“I’m a vegetarian and now I have to go to Waitrose and get corn-fed free-range chicken for the little f***er. That’s all he’ll eat. I’m just waiting for the day when he decides he’s off the chicken and it’s got to be duck!”

Siouxsie Sioux, whose real name is Susan Janet Ballion, says she’s trying to teach her cats to use the toilet via Litter Kwitter. Good luck with that one!

While it’s been traditionally thought that cats need meat to get essential nutrients in their diets, some vegan cat food products have hit the market, including those sold at Vegancats.com.

The key is that these foods contain taurine, which is vital to a cat’s health.

Of course any changes to an animal’s diet should be discussed with your vet.

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