Now, she’s giving more clues about what she looks for in another person by helping to promote PETA UK’s revised vegetarian and vegan starter kit at Covent Garden, a former fruit and vegetable market in England.
Dressed more modestly than some of her lettuce wearing predecessors who’ve donned skimpy cabbage bikinis, the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant and winner chose a short dress made of greens.
This year Farm Sanctuary celebrates 25 years of educating the public about animal welfare issues and pushing for reform.
In addition to its campaigns and acres of lands featuring free-roaming farm animals rescued from abused situations, Farm Sanctuary accomplished something significant to the vegetarian movement by convincing Burger King to put a vegetarian patty on the menu.
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Willie Nelson has recorded a song to draw attention to America’s wild horses.
A group called Willie & The Nelson Family has recorded a cover of the 1971 Rolling Stones hit “Wild Horses” that will benefit the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI). AWI works to end suffering of many types of animals, including wild horses.
Jonathan Mann is known for writing a different song each day, making anywhere from $100-$500 for the projects he does for other people, including one for Steve Jobs to explain what to do if you don’t like your iphone dropping calls.
Mann, a vegan, has penned song #810 titled, “Vegan Myths Debunked,” where he sings a duet with Ivory King discussing where to get protein, calcium and answers all the questions omnivores asks like, “Then, why I do I have these teeth,” referring to the assumption human mouths are best designed to tear meat apart.
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Knut, the famous polar bear reared by a zookeeper as a baby after his mother rejected him, died days ago and Berlin zoo officials have issued a statement citing brain damage as the likely cause.
According to autopsy results conducted by Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Game Animal Research, Knut suffered, “significant changes to the brain, which could be seen as the reason for the sudden death.” No other organ damage was visible, but more tests are being done.
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Biz Stone and his business partner and co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, are celebrating five years of saying it in 140 characters.
Stone was recently a guest on Conan O’Brien‘s show when the subject of some of Stone’s past Tweets came up. One of those Tweets was about Stone discovering Amtrak offered a vegan burger. Stone Tweeted,”Wow, Amtrak serves a vegan burger! Nice.”
“I would not have that burger,” Conan said while laughing.
Well, that’s surely his choice, but we think Conan will miss out on some serious foodie fun!
