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Michelle Obama is penning a book about the White House Garden and her efforts to ingrain healthier eating habits in Americans.

The book is untitled as of now and Crown Publishing Group, a unit of Random House publishers, has set a release date for April 2012. Inside readers will find Obama family recipes and photos of not only the White House Garden, but gardens from communities and schools all over the United States.

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The Biggest Loser‘s vegan coach Bob Harper has created his own line of nutritional supplements.

Expect to see Bob Harper’s Smart Success on the shelves sometime in April.

Vegetarians and vegans can also expect not to be disappointed, as Harper says on his blog he was careful to work with a manufacturer who adhered to his strict, animal-free standards.

“When I first started thinking about this project I had a very long laundry list of what I wanted for my products. Namely, I was looking for clinically proven key ingredients. I wanted it to be vegan and vegetarian friendly. It needed to be gluten free and dairy free. I wanted veggie caps. I wanted supportive ingredients like natural goji berry & pomegranate. The list went on and on – and the world-class company I teamed up with delivered on every single item.”

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It’s only March, and there have already been two vegan books on the New York Time’s best sellers list.

Kris Carr and Kathy Freston can both teach you how to live a healthy, plant-based life.

Wanna be a Veganist? Or would you rather make juice and not war?

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Alicia Silverstone kicked off the tour for the paperback edition of her vegan diet and cookbook, The Kind Diet, at Barnes & Nobles bookstore in Los Angeles.

Along with displaying her book, Silverstone showed off her baby bump in a Rebecca Taylor dress paired with House of Lavande jewelry and Aldo “Capecoral” pumps.

The actress is expecting her first child with husband Christopher Jarecki and has taken to her blog to talk about vegan pregnancies and breastfeeding.

Nothing gives the vegan diet a better advertisment than a vegan woman with the biggest pregnant glow on earth!

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What does Matt + Nat equal? Great looking, cruelty-free handbags that help get clean drinking water to those in need.

For each purchase of the company’s limited edition Ikat bag, Mat & Nat will donate $21 to Charity Water, an organization helping people in developing countries access clean water.

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Alicia Silverstone shot a video for The Doctors television show in which she shares some tips for her vegan diet book, The Kind Life, which has just been released in paperback.

Sore throat or runny nose? It’s time for Miso Soup For The Soul!

Silverstone says the dish containing the Japanese seasoning made from fermenting soybeans, rice and barley will make you feel as good as you did when mom gave you the bird version of the get-better-soon soup.

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Play Defensive Omnivore Bingo

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 in Food & Drink, Humor, Offbeat.

A super funny creation by Brian VanderVeen, Defensive Omnivore Bingo has the announcer ditching the “B7” and “O63” for “Begins To Wax Sentimental Over Some Variety of Meat They Could Never Give Up,” “Mentions Canine Teeth,” and “Expresses Concern For Plant Suffering.”

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Mark Bittman

When a 19-year old woman slammed her sister’s pet hamster onto the floor, ASPCA animal police arrested her, charges were filed and she spent a night at Riker’s Island prison.

Yet this type of behavior occurs in farms around the country routinely. One group’s random undercover cruelty investigation found abuse in all 10 of the chosen farms or slaughterhouses it chose to visit.

Mark Bittman discussed this irony in one of his recent New York Times column, “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.”

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