Vegetarian Star

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

• Natalie Merchant (49)

Photo: Tandemracer @ Flickr/Creative Commons

Possibly Related Posts:

• Ellie Goulding Creates Protein Bar “Everlasting Joy” With GoMacro
• Best Vegetarian Stories Of 2015
• Meatless Monday Recipe–Kelis Spinach And Chickpea Fritters With Yogurt Cucumber Sauce
• Dawn Richard And PETA Know Vegan Looks Good Inside And Out
• Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Eating Animals was chosen by the College of Charleston as this year’s College Reads! selection. The College Reads! program chooses a book for incoming students to read that is then incorporated into various academic syllabi and discussed throughout the year.

Eating Animals touches on the livestock and meat industry, environmental impact of meat eating, animal welfare standards, vegetarianism and veganism and more.

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Jon Stewart and Wife Tracey Stewart Adopt Horse
• Chrissy Teigen Failed Vegan Experiment
• Mia Evans Is A “Masterchef Junior” Vegetarian Star
• Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Elephants Retire To Sanctuary
• Holly Madison Enjoys Vegan Smoothie From M Cafe In Beverly Hills

Pamela Anderson spends her Thanksgiving holidays with turkey like everyone else. She just doesn’t put it on her plate. The longtime vegetarian and former Baywatch actress revealed she enjoys going to a farm sanctuary and spending time with the birds who’ll never become someone’s dinner.

‘I go to the Gentle Barn and hang out with turkeys,” Anderson told NY Post’s Page Six. “I tickle them under the wings and I sit them on my lap, and I feed them pumpkin pie.”

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Jon Stewart and Wife Tracey Stewart Adopt Horse
• Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Elephants Retire To Sanctuary
• Jaimie King Creates Vegan-Friendly Makeup Alchemy From ColourPop
• SeaWorld Phasing Out Whale Breeding Program
• Pamela Anderson Launches Vegan Shoes

Bob Barker has a feature in Vegetarian Times where he discusses what made him go vegetarian and his devotion to animal charities for the past several decades.

His favorite dish is pasta primavera, which sounds like the perfect food to throw his favorite vegetables of broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, and asparagus in.

Here’s what motivated him to change his diet 35 years ago.

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Jon Stewart and Wife Tracey Stewart Adopt Horse
• Chrissy Teigen Failed Vegan Experiment
• Mia Evans Is A “Masterchef Junior” Vegetarian Star
• Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Elephants Retire To Sanctuary
• Holly Madison Enjoys Vegan Smoothie From M Cafe In Beverly Hills

A Spanish version of Paul McCartney‘s Glass Walls narrated video was shown to a group of students at Los Angeles’ predominately Latino Roosevelt High School. The film illustrates what goes on behind the closed doors of the meat industry and encourages people to adopt a vegetarian diet.

Vegan and TV host Marco Antonio Regil was there to discuss veganism and present the video, which motivated 15 students to sign a pledge to go vegetarian that day.

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Jon Stewart and Wife Tracey Stewart Adopt Horse
• Chrissy Teigen Failed Vegan Experiment
• Mia Evans Is A “Masterchef Junior” Vegetarian Star
• Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Elephants Retire To Sanctuary
• Holly Madison Enjoys Vegan Smoothie From M Cafe In Beverly Hills

“These cute adorable baby calves jumping around, playing around, would be on someone’s plate someday. And I said, ‘Wait, so people can eat them?’ Mom just shook her head because she knew what was going to happen. I couldn’t eat those precious cows. They were my babies. I bottle-fed some of them. And now I knew where they went.”

—Carrie Underwood, during a VH1 Behind the Music interview on the lighbulb moment she experienced that prompted her to become a vegetarian.

Photo: Keith Hinkle/Creative Commons

Possibly Related Posts:

• Chrissy Teigen Failed Vegan Experiment
• Mia Evans Is A “Masterchef Junior” Vegetarian Star
• Holly Madison Enjoys Vegan Smoothie From M Cafe In Beverly Hills
• Controversy Over Pro-Vegeterian Curriculum In Schools
• Ellie Goulding Creates Protein Bar “Everlasting Joy” With GoMacro

Americans may not be decided on who’s best to run the country yet, but they’re pretty sure who they’d rather have a burger with.

In a poll of 2094 Americans by chain restaurant Smashburger, 59% said they’d pick Barack Obama to dine with versus 41% for Mitt Romney.

(more…)

Possibly Related Posts:

• Chrissy Teigen Failed Vegan Experiment
• Mia Evans Is A “Masterchef Junior” Vegetarian Star
• Holly Madison Enjoys Vegan Smoothie From M Cafe In Beverly Hills
• Controversy Over Pro-Vegeterian Curriculum In Schools
• Ellie Goulding Creates Protein Bar “Everlasting Joy” With GoMacro

‘I’m a vegetarian, although my husband isn’t. I’m not a fanatic, as that can put people off. I didn’t want anything to die so that I could live, it didn’t seem right. No matter what people say, animals face an appalling end, and somehow colluding with that makes me unhappy.”

—Joanna Lumley on her diet with The Daily Mail. During the interview she and writer Liz Jones also touched on the topic of rescuing cats and dogs.

Photo: crashandspin/Creative Commons

Possibly Related Posts:

• Chrissy Teigen Failed Vegan Experiment
• Mia Evans Is A “Masterchef Junior” Vegetarian Star
• Holly Madison Enjoys Vegan Smoothie From M Cafe In Beverly Hills
• Controversy Over Pro-Vegeterian Curriculum In Schools
• Ellie Goulding Creates Protein Bar “Everlasting Joy” With GoMacro