Vegetarian Star

Russell Simmons was recently honored with a Stevie Award at the American Business Awards at the Mariott Marquis near  Times Square in New York.  Simmons won the honor of being the first person to receive the honorary Difference Maker Award.

With so much bad news about the ethics in business these days, it’s refreshing to hear someone who focuses on principles as well as profit. During the awards, Simmons took time to discuss the importance of keeping one’s values when offering solutions in the business world, which may require a little bit of creative thinking.

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Ricky Gervais has joined fellow actor Owain Yeoman in the fight to convince British store Fortnum and Mason to remove foie gras from its shelves.

Gervais has written a letter to officials at Fortnum, asking them to stop selling the delicacy that is obtained by forcing ducks and geese to overeat so much their livers swell abnormally.

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Vaute Couture founder and president Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart has an interview with From A To Vegan where she discusses her lifelong interest in fashion and the events that led her to start a vegan clothing company.

“I always just had a really strong, gut reaction whenever someone is being picked on or exploited or something’s not fair,”Hilgart said. “When I was a kid…[I thought] there’s just something not quite right about how we were treating animals.”

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Vegan recipes have stolen the spotlight in the USDA’s Healthy Kids Contest.

Tasty Tots and Central Valley Harvest Bake were the winners in the popular choice award and the dark orange and green vegetable categories, respectively.

Tasty Tots replaces white potatoes with yams and chickpeas for a baked version of the traditional tater tot. Central Valley Harvest Bake pairs quinoa with butternut squash and red bell peppers.

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An annual art show benefiting Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will once again open its doors this weekend to expose dozens of creative artists, live music and a chance to speak with marine life activist and star of Animal Planet’s Whale Wars, Paul Watson.

The Sea No Evil Art show will take place at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, California on Saturday June 25th, 2011.

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Rich Roll, named one of the “25 Fittest Guys in the World” by Fitness Magazine, fuels his ultra-marathons with nothing but plants, with the occasional indulgence in vegan junk, potato chips being his biggest vice.

Roll, an endurance athlete in his 40s, has written an ebook, Jai Seed, that contains 77 pages of recipes, color photos and original artwork by his wife Julie Piatt for vegan dish ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Long before Lisa Edelstein and Omar Epps became stars on House, there was Noah Wyle, America’s favorite television doctor who happens to be a longtime vegetarian, environmental activist and human rights supporter.

Wyle’s back on a new TNT drama called Falling Skies, where he stars as a history professor turned alien fighter forced to not only defend himself from those of the other world, but free his son from capture as well.

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Owain Yeoman is not just a pretty face who plays a crime investigator on television. The Mentalist actor knows when something smells fowl in real life too.

Like when geese are forced to eat to the point of discomfort and physical trauma for someone’s plate of foie gras.

Yeoman recently protested a popular British store’s decision to keep foie gras on the shelves, even though many food stores in the country like Selfridges have banned it.

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