Vegetarian Star

Jane Velez-Mitchell, one of several speakers featured at Farm Sanctuary’s Walk For Animals this past weekend, brings her dog for support as she stands up and gives a riling speech to the crowd.

Wow!

Jane sounds just like she does on TV when she’s giving someone the diatribe!

Jane uses the story of the woman paralyzed from eating an e. coli tainted burger to make her point.

“When are people going to get it?” she asked. “What is bad and cruel to animals is bad and cruel to us.”

Right on, Jane!

“And why is it so many highly intelligent, sophisticated intellectuals can’t figure this out?”

“Because people don’t want to look in the mirror and face the truth about themselves.”

Ouch!

Watch the entire clip above and be sure to watch Part 1 on Jane’s speech too.

Thanks a bunch to Tracie.

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Works Progress Administration: (Back row L-R) Greg Leisz, Sean Watkins, Pete Thomas, Luke Bulla, Benmont Tench (Front row L-R) Glen Phillips, Sara Watkins

The Works Progress Administration is a folk band named after FDR’s New Deal agency, with singer Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket) at the helm.

Phillips says one of his favorite things to do in LA is visit Inaka Natural Foods Restaurant.

“There is something about the coffee at King’s Road that makes me really happy. And Benmont took us to a great macrobiotic vegan quasi-Japanese place called Inaka. But my favorite thing to do in LA is just catch up with friends. And again, as far as favorite places go, it doesn’t get better than Largo!”

Looking up a link to Inaka, the restaurant is under Yelp.com‘s “Japanese” and “Seafood” categories.

Reviewers have made comments like:

“I highly recommend their chocolate tofu mousse.”

So we take it some of Inaka is vegan.

But it gets real comically confusing as another reviewer expressed content with seafood and “tofu on the side.”

“Don’t miss their salmon (ask for it pan-fried with their light/dee-lish teriyaki on the side, OR try their incredible salmon patty and ask for their tofu dressing on the side for it…YUM!!!)”

Tofu dressing sounds delicious. Salmon patty…that’s another story.

Check out the entire interview with Glen and listen to a sample track of the Works Progress Administration at laist.com.

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Alton Brown | Credit Jen Segrest Wikimedia Commons

Celebrity chef Alton Brown is no stranger to sustainable eating, taking interest after his then five year old daughter figured out chicken on the plate used to be her cute friend.

Good for children and all their hundreds of endless questions, because Alton describes himself as 80% vegetarian.

So what’s holding Alton back?

The Piven Syndrome.

At mnn.com, Alton says he encourages eating more sustainable fish and claims to keep a can of sardines in his suitcase.

Eww! Bet that suitcase smells worse than his dirty laundry.

Still, 80% is better than nothing and Alton would like to see more people adopt “diversification and seasonality when it comes to choosing vegetables.”

There’s no better way to do seasonal than the Farmer’s Market.

Alton’s new Food Network show, The Next Iron Chef, premiered October 4.

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Terence Gerchberg was the poor vegetarian soul on The Amazing Race who ate sheep rear during an eating challenge-only to throw it up moments later and be disgusted with the whole ordeal.

Since his stint on Amazing Race, he’s become vegan, according to The “V” Word, and made an appearance at this weekend’s Farm Sanctuary Walk For Animals.

“There was a surprise visit from Terence Gerchberg who competed on The Amazing Race last season. Gerchberg was a vegetarian who faced a challenge to eat meat for money. Today Terence is a vegan who says if ever faced with such a challenge again, he would never go against his ethics and values. Inspiring!”

Way to go Terence!

Besides Terence, Jane Velez-Mitchell gave a speech on her rescue dogs, New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal spoke on pets and domestic violence situations, and Shawn Sweeney from the Jane Goodall Institute shared his experiences from the Institute.

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Pristine Beauty

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we thought it’d be a great opportunity to highlight the business genius of Pristine Beauty.

Created by a breast cancer survivor, Pristine Beauty Products are certified vegan and cruelty-free, not to mention free of nasty chemicals that have been linked to cancer, such as sulfates, silicones and parabens.

Pristine Beauty features deodrant (The “Take a Whiff” shown here), scar treatment and hair serum and range from $22-$36.

When you purchase your goods from either shoppristinebeauty.com or a retail establishment, a portion of the proceeds go towards Young Survival Coalition® and the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

For more information, visit shoppristinebeauty.com.

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No, Alcohol for Sustainable Living doesn’t mean ensuring the wine bar is stocked throughout your college days.

It’s the way of thinking that we can use ethanol for a variety of purposes-from powering cars to heating homes.

Veggie stars Daryl Hannah and Ed Begley Jr. were present at the recent Alcohol For Sustainable Living Press Conference in LA, where both talked about their views on using ethanol as fuel for vehicles.

“I’m a big fan of non-petroleum ways of moving ourselves around,” Hannah said, “including electric cars running on renewable energy and biofuels, which is why I was a cofounder of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance.”

Hannah showed off the 6.6-liter Trans-Am from Kill Bill, which she converted to alcohol with David Blume‘s, who wrote Alcohol can be a Gas, help.

According to Blume, driving your own drunken Kill Bill (but not driving drunk, as that’s irresponsible and dangerous) with E85 ethanol could eliminate the need for oil dependency in a few years.

via mnn.com

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Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro is protesting Bioculture‘s plans to build a massive monkey breeding facility, where the company’s products will be sold to laboratories that use primates for testing.

According to peta.org, the plan is to capture the monkeys in Mauritius, hold them captive in Puerto Rico, and then sell them and their offspring to labs all over the world.

The Sin City actor wrote a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico, asking him to halt the construction plans for the facility.

“I am disappointed to learn from my friends at PETA that a company called Bioculture is proposing to build a large monkey facility in Guayama, where it plans to breed thousands of these intelligent animals and lock them in cages before sending them off to laboratories around the world to be used in painful, deadly experiments. Won’t you please use your influence as governor and stop this from happening on our beautiful island?”

It appears the mayor of Guayama has already encouraged its citizens to protest the captures.

“Even the mayor of Guayama, Glorimari Jaime, has expressed her concern: “If my people do civil disobedience against this [Bioculture] project, I will be there to support them.…I want you to know that I have never given a sign to endorse this project. Everything was done by the previous administration.” Please don’t allow Puerto Rico to be associated with a facility that profits from extreme animal abuse.”

Go Glorimari!

Read Benicio’s entire letter at peta.org.

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Model Elle MacPherson was snapped coming from a school, more than likely after dropping her children off for the day.

Elle’s fashion sense consisted of sunglasses and this jacket with furry sleeves and collar.

Not all supermodels are vain, but we sure hope Elle’s a fake and she’s not wearing real fur.

Elle was criticized in the past for signing a deal with Blackglama, and was reportedly terrified of anti-fur activist so much she wanted Blackglama to cancel the shoot and not publicize the photographs.

Want do you think?

Is Elle fur real? Or is she faking it?

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