Vegetarian Star

PETA’s president Ingrid Newkirk has a lot on her mind these days.

The recent horse meat scandal, hunting and faux meat are just a few of the issues she discussed with Forbes contributor Michael Charles Tobias.

Newkirk is not just informed and passionate about these animal welfare and food safety concerns.

The Forbes interview demonstrates she can also be quite quirky about them to prove a point.

Such was the case when asked to comment on horse meat making it into the food supply in Britain and other places.

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Matisyahu last made the vegan news with a declaration of his love for greens.

“I feel dark green vegetables are really important, so every day i try to have some type of dark greens, whether sauteed or grilled or steamed, or in a juice,” he told Vegetarian Times.

Potatoes wouldn’t be the same without the (faux) meat, and a reuben sandwich with tempeh can be made even healthier by substituting greens for the fries.

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“KFC needs to get its shit together, start treating their chickens with a lil R E S P E C T, let them go free and become a vegan restaurant.”

—Ireland Baldwin, in a recent Tweet suggesting she may want to take her flexitarian diet a bit further one day.

The model’s message was replied to by one follower with an idea for a new name for the restaurant: Kentucky Fried Cauliflower.

KFC needs to get its shit together, start treating their chickens with a lil R E S P E C T, let them go free and become a vegan restaurant

— Ireland B Baldwin (@IrelandBBaldwin) April 25, 2013

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Ashley Bell traveled to Cambodia to film Love and Bananas, a documentary about the plight of Asian elephants in captivity.

The country has its share of issues that adversely affect elephants and other animals in the wild, from circuses and zoos with poor welfare standards to deforestation.

But there is much being done to combat these problems. The Cambodian Wildlife Sanctuary that provides a home for rescued elephants and alternative jobs for loggers are being drafted.

And Cambodia’s culinary experience is a beautiful one in itself, especially when it comes to the fresh produce.

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Mike Tyson had a bad girlfriend experience that proves you should always choose a veggie mate.

The former boxing champion is known for his fondness of pigeons.

His former non-vegan girlfriend, however, is not.

While the two were living together, Tyson says she took one of his beloved pigeons and cooked it.

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“I’m vegetarian at the moment. I have been vegan in the past but I’ve found it a bit too hard with all the travelling I do. It is possible if your heart is really in it and you have a lot of discipline but I was just spending way too much time trying to find places that could serve me something vegan.”

—Missy Higgins, on her wavering plant-based diet. Not only is it hard to find vegan food on the road, it’s much easier to find Tim Tams. Higgins explained the chocolate covered desserts “might be half the reason why I find it so hard to be vegan!”

Photo: Eva Rinaldi/Creative Commons

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Brit Marling, actress, writer and producer of The East spoke with Glamour magazine about some of her adventures that are no so Hollywood.

Screen geniuses get their inspiration from a variety of settings, and for one of her films, she and another writer traveled across the country to get a feel of what it’s like to live free and unconventionally–even when it comes to finding your food.

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Gwyneth Paltrow may have won People’s Most Beautiful this year, but Portia de Rossi could have easily taken the crown as well.

The actress completed an interview in a behind the scenes shoot for the magazine where she discussed the factors she feels keep her looking so young in her forties.

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