Those three finalists starred in their own commercials that were aired during ITV1’s This Morning Show, cooking their dishes and asking viewers to vote for them.
In the end, between Kate Ford’s hearty mushroom, ale and puy lentil pie, Susan Edward’s butternut squash and spinach lasagne and Robert Stordy’s vegetarian moussaka, only one was chosen to be included in the food line.
Watch Paul McCartney himself announce the winning dish, which will hit the stores in August, below.
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Ricky Gervais would like the National Institutes of Health to return several chimpanzees who were almost retired back to a sanctuary after being moved into a medical research laboratory in Texas.
Gervais was born in England, where licenses for experiments on chimpanzees were banned over a decade ago. Since then, several countries have followed this lead, including New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Belgium.
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A few months ago, it was announced that Steve Wynn had welcomed famous vegan chef and cookbook author Tal Ronnen to help create vegan items for the menus at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore dining establishments
QuarryGirl has been tipped off that one of Steve Wynn’s restaurants, La Cave, is already on board with its vegan menu.
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“I was assisting in autopsies, and we’d opened up the chest of a man who had died of a heart attack. Later, I went to the cafeteria and they were serving ribs for lunch, and the smell of it and the look of it really got me. It made me think about what I was really eating.”
—Dr. Neal Barnard, Founder and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), on what motivated him to go vegetarian, then vegan. When Barnard saw the amount of fat around the man’s ribs, it was clear he’d eaten a lot of saturated fat, the kind of fat found primarily in animals products, during his lifetime.
The PCRM advocates a vegan diet for health. Besides being published in several medical journals, Dr. Barnard is the author of several books promoting a vegan diet, including 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart and Get Healthy, Go Vegan Cookbook.
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CNN has an article titled “7 Woman Who Turned Food Into Careers” which highlights a maker of raw, vegan, fruit and nut bars.
Veronica Bosgraaf’s daughter announced at the tender age of six that she was going veg after she figured out the meal on her plate was the animal she played with earlier at the petting zoo.
If you want her body, and you think she’s sexy, come on sugar and go veg.
As the NBA’s first female scout, Bonnie-Jill Laflin may have spent some time in the locker room, but never like this.
These days Laflin is recruiting for a different team. She trying to convince more people to adopt a vegan and vegetarian diet through her latest PETA ad.
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Wayne Pacelle, CEO and President of the Humane Society of the United States was on Ellen DeGeneres to discuss several animal related issues, including the HSUS’s partnership with Michael Vick and Missouri’s Proposition B, a ballot initative that aims to stop puppy mills.
Missouri residents voted to approve Prop B, but it has since been overturned.
