Vegetarian Star

Valentine’s Day is approaching and if you haven’t bought your sweetie something nice or planned for the evening, it’s time to get moving.

Carrie Underwood, being the competitive go getter she is, had no problem spelling it out as to what she wanted for Valentine’s Day, according to KBS Radio.

“It’s nice to go out, occasionally, but it’s nice to stay in, too. I’m more of a stay-in, probably, kind of girl. And I’ve never had a guy cook for me. So I think it’d be really awesome if the guy just kind of, you know, put a lot of thought into it. . . made the atmosphere nice. Maybe light some candles or make some decorations or something to sit around, and make me a good meal, a home-cooked meal.”

“I’m a vegetarian, too, so you’d know, it’d be like he went through some thought and looked up a recipe that he figured I would like, and you know, complete with dessert, of course.”

Is she dropping a big hint to Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher, the latest male candy she’s been romantically linked to?

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Suzanne Shaw is not the only Dancing on Ice contestant that knows a veggie diet’s good.

Model Melinda Messenger told the Swindon Advertiser how she’s dropped four dress sizes since she’s started her training for “Dancing on Ice”, a TV show in the UK where contestants do just that-dance in ice skates in the rink for the judges.

“I have never felt so physically fit and healthy, my skin is firmed and toned and I feel as though I have my 18-year-old body back,” Messenger said.

The grueling routine requires a top notch diet and Messenger stocks up on vegetarian foods like pasta, potatoes, and noodles when she’s training.

“I am a vegetarian so lots of healthy veg is great for keeping in shape.”

In a crazy world where people fear carbohydrates, it’s good to know Melinda recognizes keeping good complex carbs meat free is the secret to unlocking energy and staying fit.

Next time you’re hungry, follow Melinda’s direction and have some meatless meatballs over your spaghetti.

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Carrie Underwood was recently profiled on That’s Fit for her healthy eating habits and exercise routine.

Miss Underwood has been a vegetarian since 13 years of age, does a lot of cardio to stay fit, and practices what she calls “obsessive” food journaling, according to an interview with Glamour magazine.

Food journals are way people document what they’ve eaten and the nutritional content, cravings that come and go, and situations that made them eat more or less on a certain day.

While private journals of celebrities make for juicy reading info, you can bet if Carrie decided to publish hers, it wouldn’t sell well at bookstores in some states.

She said before that she’s learned to keep her vegetarianism to herself because in some parts of the country, when she’s announced she is one on stage during her performances, she gets booed.

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Actress Kristen Bell is really excited about the upcoming release of a new movie she’s in, Fanboys, where she plays a fanatic Star Wars fan.

But maybe not as excited as she is to cook with her crock pot.

The vegetarian actress revealed in an interview with Fandango that she’s even cooking meat…gasp…in it. Not to worry too much, as Kristen’s still veg all the way, but cooked something for her roommates:

“I’ve been really into using the crock pot lately, which is amazing because you can put anything fresh or frozen in there and it cooks for 10 hours and you have a stew. It’s fantastic! I actually cooked meat for the first time the other day. I made a dish that was somehow fried chicken with Italian dressing and A1 sauce. It was so weird and the reviews were stellar—I made it for my roommates and they really liked it. I didn’t eat it, but I figure it’s about time I learned to cook it.”

C’mom Kristen! Show your roommates how to really use that crock pot and cook up some veggie stews to serve alongside some seitan steak.

Wonder why she felt it was time to learn to cook meat? Does she anticipate having to cook meat for a future husband like Victoria Beckham does?

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When Ashley Judd announced her partnership with Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, Sarah Palin shot back criticizing both the vegetarian actress and the group.

Now Judd is firing back at Palin’s latest statements on Larry King Live, where she alleges Palin’s aerial wolf hunt policies are more to do with her “pet project” than concern for wildlife. Judd claims not only do the people who use moose and caribou not use planes to shoot wolves, but that Palin has voted in ways that has hurt the populations dependent on this practice and that Alaskans have voted against Palin’s policies several times.

Some quotes from the interview:

“What is really important is to maintain a healthy and natural ecological balance between predators and prey. And allowing wealthy humans, primarily urban hunters or those who are bounty hunters from out of state, to go to Alaska and for sport hire airplanes, hire private pilots to fly around and kill wolves in this incredibly savage manner, it’s not right. It is not ethical. It is not appropriate. It doesn’t make sense on any level.”

“I think what I find particularly galling in the governor’s statement is that somehow this is interfering with poor rural Alaskan’s ability to subsistence hunt. That is a distortion. In fact, there is a native tribe in the area who applied to be able to expand their subsistence hunting and she said no. This is for urban hunters. It’s for trophy hunters from out of state. And in terms of managing the population of caribou, hello, wolves do that best. That’s why the natives honor them as the animal that keeps genetic populations healthy.”

In response to Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s criticism of not paying attention to humans as much as animals:

“We can fight poverty and pollution at the same time. These things go hand in glove. Caring about human rights, caring about conservation, of course they fit together naturally. Look at Rwanda, stress on the environment, competition for resources due to overpopulation, genocide. It all works together. So it doesn’t — it’s not an either/or conversation anymore.”

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Ira Glass is the producer and host of NPR’s This American Life, who started playing poker after doing a story on professional poker players. That story wasn’t the only one that prompted Glass to make changes in his life.

A woman who ran a poultry advocacy group and rescued chickens from poultry trucks was upset because every year around Thanksgiving and Christmas (during higher consumptions of chicken), This American Life would feature a show about chickens called “The Poultry Slam,” a spin off of a poetry slam.

He featured a story on her and after visiting the United Poultry Concerns Chicken Sanctuary on the Eastern Shore, he started eating less and less chicken, eventually stopping altogether and becoming vegetarian.

Much like cartoonist Dan Piraro discovered after his visit to a Farm Sanctuary, Ira says he surprisingly found chickens with different personalities, such as the “shy” ones and the “outgoing” ones.

Here’s a video of Glass on the David Letterman Show discussing his visit, both humorously and seriously describing the events that led up to his vegetarianism.

When Glass asks Dave if he’s met any chickens, Dave sarcastically answers “not more than usually one sauteed breast at a time.”

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Sarah Palin is not a woman who sits back and takes it, and much to the disappointment of those who wanted her to go away after the Presidential election, she is one that will remain in the public eye for awhile.

He latest outcry is defending Alaska’s Wildlife Management policies and her approval of aerial wolf hunting.

She scolded the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund for their EyeonPalin.org campaign, which is meant to track what they insist is her record of ignoring scientific evidence in her decisions about wildlife and conservation.

“Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations,” Palin said in a statement, supporting her decision on aerial wolf hunting.

She referred to the group as being an “extreme fringe” one, and accused it of distorting the facts of Alaska’s Wildlife management program.

“Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times.”

Defenders of Wildlife has gotten support from vegetarian actress Ashley Judd, who recently filmed a video voicing her concern for Palin’s policies.

via Political Tickler

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Was there a particular person in your life that led you to go vegetarian?

Guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of punk rock band Anti-Flag, Justin Sane, was inspired by mom and dad.

His parents opened the first vegetarian restaurant in his home town and he was exposed to their activism as they participated in rallies while he was growing up.

Source: Radio.aol.co.uk

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