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Maggie Q Fights Climate Change In PETA Ad (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, January 25th, 2013 in Actresses, Environment-Eco-Green, Food & Drink, Videos.

Maggie Q PETA Climate Change

Maggie Q has the weight of the world on her–literally.

In a new ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Maggie appears in what is either a body wrap or a paint job of the earth around her body.

“Fight Climate Change With Diet Change: Go Veg,” reads the ad that pleads all of Maggie’s fans to do the same as the vegetarian actress does.

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, January 25th, 2013 in Actresses, Birthdays, Female Musicians, Female Singers.

Ana Ortiz

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

Photo: The Heart Truth/Creative Commons

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Alicia Silverstone Kristen Wiig Great Bathroom Moments

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

Alicia Silverstone

Being a potty mouthed actor or actress will usually get you in a movie with an R rating, but when it comes to potty talk in the bathroom, it gets an exclusive slide show at the Huffington Post.

“Celebrity Potty Talk: Stars’ Most Memorable Bathroom Quotes” has all the details on the bathroom habits of the rich and famous.

Thanks to her vegan diet, Alicia Silverstone‘s toilet time is so great, she doesn’t even need a cue card.

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Paula Deen Family All Lose Big In Healthy Food Makeover

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 in Chefs, Food & Drink, pescatarian.

Paula Dean People Cover

Paula Deen‘s diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes was all it took for the Queen of Butter to put a little less bacon in every dish and replace it with more greens and grains.

But she’s not the only member of the Deen family to lose weight and gain health benefits.

Paula and sons Bobby and Jamie join her on the cover of People, each showing their respective pounds lost.

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Jamie Kilstein Uses Google To Find Tofu Avoid Vegan Hate Crimes

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 in Comedians, Food & Drink.

Jamie Kilstein

Jamie Kilstein has a recent interview with PETA2.

The comedian has an upcoming tour in the UK and although he is known for inserting his animal rights and vegetarian beliefs into a few of his routines, that doesn’t mean meat eaters will get a tongue lashing.

“A lot of people who eat animals aren’t the monsters we like to imagine. Many of them are ignorant like we once were,” he said. “They don’t think of a McNugget as a baby chick. They think of it as a McNugget, whatever the f*** that is. Most people love animals. We treat our dogs and cats like members of the family, but the cognitive dissonance is unbelievable when it comes to the dead animals we put in our mouths.”

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Rooney Mara Is Girl With The Vegan Food At Sundance

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara celebrated her most recent film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, over a vegan dinner at a private dinner that included several cast members from the movie.

Mara, a vegan, enjoyed a meal of “cabbage spring rolls, green tea sorbet with berries and forbidden tofu, which is made with crispy tofu, aromatic black rice, coconut eggplant, thai basil and lychee vinaigrette,” according to People.

Mara’s is best known for her role in the crime drama The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Photo: Elen Nivrae/Creative Commons

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“The Onion” Publishes Letter From Humane Meat Farmer

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 in Animal Issues, Food & Drink, Not So Vegetarian.

The Onion

The Onion has published a hilarious piece mocking the “humane meat” industry.

In “We Raise All Our Beef Humanely On Open Pasture And Then We Hang Them Upside Down And Slash Their Throats,” livestock farmers pledge to deliver many things to today’s environmentally conscious consumer and animal welfare advocate, including the, “highest quality beef from cows that are healthy, active, and eventually suspended fully conscious inside a facility thick with hot, blood-choked air and the frantic bellows of dangling, profoundly fearful animals.”

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“Portlandia” Vegan Book Shopping And Best Of 2012 (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 in Actors, Actresses, Books, Film & TV, Videos.

Portlandia‘s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein visited New York City’s independent bookstore Bluestockings with podcaster/comedian Julie Klausner where they had the chance to look and chit chat about a few vegan cookbooks among other works of literature.

January is almost over and it’s hard to believe an entire year has gone by with another round a great vegan books you can find at independent stores, online, secondhand shops and even yard sales.

If vegan book shopping is on your to-do list anytime soon, start with some suggestions from One Green Planet.

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