Vegetarian Star

Richard Linklater is an Academy award nominated film director and screen writer who’s credits include Fast Food Nation and School of Rock.

If you know Fast Food Nation, you know the story of the poor marketing director who, after discovering some good ol’ fecal matter in his company’s meat product, learns what other horrors come packaged in a “Value Meal.”

Linklater’s no fan of fast food, as he prefers “healthy mexican,” specifically, a restaurant in Austin, Texas called Mr. Natural.

“It’s this veggie Mexican food place, a healthy Mexican place, just about a mile on the East side on Cesar Chavez Avenue. It’s called Mr. Natural. It’s a healthy Mexican little buffet. It’s wonderful. It’s been there forever. It’s too good to be true. It’s a quick little buffet, you’re eating within like four minutes of when you walk in the door.”

Heading to Austin anytime soon? Mr. Natural’s menu offers vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, and wheat free dishes like Potato Flautas, Picadillo de Soya, Cabbage Rolls, Tofu a la Mexicana, and Tamales.

via blackbookmag.com

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Paul McGuigan is the director of Push, a sci-fi thriller about young American ex-Pats with telekinetic powers running from the U.S. Government. Some have compared the film to the NBC television show “Heroes.”

One scene of Push involves an explosion in a market where water and fish are thrown everywhere. McGuigan described how he and the crew discussed creating the scene to Movies Online.

“So we have a fish tank here and it’s going to blow up and then the fish is going to fly in the air or something and then I want you to come around here and then you go around that way and then, see this bit here?” he said.

One problem. There are live fish in the tank. One possibly bigger problem. McGuigan is vegetarian, had no problem blowing up live fish for the movie and only stopped because the actors (who were probably non vegetarian) protested.

“Oh no, we couldn’t blow up [the fish]. I wanted to do it. Did you hear that story? I’m a vegetarian and I had fish in the tank and all the actors came over and went, “Why are the fish still here?” and I went, “I’m just going to blow them up.” And they went, “What?!” I went, “Well, we’re in Hong Kong. Have you seen the markets on the corners?” Because you know all the fish are fresh and so they just take them out and go “Boom, boom.””

“So it never dawned on me and then suddenly when it dawned on me, I thought actually these guys are right. So we took all the fish out and we had no fish. So the only people harmed during this movie were the actors, not the fish. There’s actually no fish there if you look at the sequence, there’s no fish flying about. I actually wanted fish to be flying about but I was told no.”

Good to know the omnivores are watching the animals’ backs when us vegetarians suddenly develop moral schizophrenia and rationalize making fish bombs even though we don’t eat them.

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Shortly after the Madonna-Guy Ritchie split, we learned that Madge set forth some pretty strict rules about what the children could and could not do while visiting Guy, including only eating organic, vegetarian, macrobiotic food.

Now Guy is paying her back, but it might be the children who are suffering in the process.

As part of the deal for getting to crash at Guy’s UK mansion he previously banned her from, she must behave-no temper tantrums or bullying the staff. Fair enough. But she also must allow the children to eat a “traditional” Christmas dinner of ham and turkey!

For a parent who’s been insisting on organic, vegetarian food, this has to be her worst nightmare. Not to mention the possible physical reactions that might happen to the children when eating greasy pig and bird after months of eating wholesome, organic vegetarian food.

Not to worry, though. Madonna is already planning her next move. As soon as she arrived in the UK, a source said the first thing she did was met with her divorce lawyer.

It’s probably safe to say this Christmas dinner deal will be annulled by next year.

via Female First

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“If you’re a vegetarian, you could not go to a better place in the world. I’m not a vegetarian, but it is wonderful, and there’s more choice there than anywhere, because it’s a vegetarian nation, although they do eat meats. That food is extraordinary.”
—-Danny Boyle, in an interview with Black Book Mag. Boyle was the director for the movie, Trainspotting, and well as his new cinema project, Slumdog Millionaire, about a young, poor Indian boy who gets a slot on a gameshow.

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