Colfer seems to have a “beef” with vegetarians in general because he’s now admitting he blackmailed one in high school after learning she may have allegedly eaten meat on the down low.
The Food Network chef who’s mother’s vegetarianism inspired her to to create more plant-based meals recently expressed her appreciation for the Meatless Monday initiative, which encourages everyone to eat vegetarian once a week for better health.
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Rufus Wainwright has admitted to the press he’s succumbed his fleshly desires.
The singer who made OUT magazine’s top 100 celebrities and said he’d rather eat a seitan or tempeh reuben because he felt like the real thing was eating his pet dog apparently doesn’t have a pet lamb because he had no problem gobbling up Mary during an interview.
Fortunately, his better half still lets the lamb follow him back home without getting butchered.
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What do you get when you combine Borat‘s Sasha Baron Cohen as a Middle Eastern dictator with a vegan, co-op grocery store owner?
One would hope a completely organic produce section where anything genetically modified would be zapped by super military powers.
But in the case of a new film titled The Dictator, you only get actress Anna Faris as the “ultra-liberal vegan grocery store owner who inadvertently rescues a Saddam Hussein-esque tyrant”
Plus, a few good jokes about educated women looking like monkeys on roller skates.
Watch a clip below to see how disappointed Cohen’s character is to learn to organic store doesn’t sell any assault rifles.
“I think we have so much to learn from the animal kingdom. Instead, they are shot and gassed and farmed and eaten, and only humans do this to them! Animals don’t start wars or destroy the planet or create cancers or pollute or over-populate. Humans, by comparison, are a mess. You can also tell so much about a person by their treatment of animals. A woman in a fur-coat might as well carry a sign saying ‘I am an idiot.’ How women — and it’s usually women — can wear fur, whilst knowing how it’s manufactured, is absolutely bewildering to me. The human race is rarely humane.”
—Morrissey, during an interview discussing his views on vegetarianism and animal rights. The former member of The Smiths who sang “Meat Is Murder” has been vegetarian since age 11.
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Food and opinion writer for the New York TimesMark Bittman serves as a good example of how to live as a flexitarian for those that do not shun all animal products, for whatever reasons.
His self-invented “vegan until six p.m.” program helped him lose weight, lower cholesterol and incorporate a variety of plant-based meals into his diet, such as this Chickpea Salad with Arugula.
