Written by Vegetarian Star on September 27th, 2010 in Actresses, Fashion.
Comments Off on Alicia Silverstone’s Style And San Francisco’s First Vegan Fashion Show
Alicia Silverstone is truly a model for vegan fashion, not only due to her classic screen looks and fit body, but through her compassionate animal rights values she’s promoted through her website, The Kind Life, and her vegan lifestyle and cookbook, The Kind Diet.
Collegefashion.net has compiled what is says are the actress’ favorite styles. Either the Billabong bag or Matt & Nat clutch (bottom: left and middle) complement the Chinese Laundry heels (top: left) and the black Mod Cloth bag (bottom: right) goes well with the Fashion-Conscience Ankle boots (top: right), but what do you pair with the Mod Cloth purple pumps (top: middle)? The answer could be a Steve Madden Katia Medium Eggplant Purple Vegan Satchel at Alternative Outfitters or at the first ever San Francisco Vegan Fashion Show on October 2nd.
Comments Off on Bill Clinton’s Doctors Talk To Wolf Blitzer On Reversing Heart Disease (Video)
You’ve heard it from Bill Clinton himself first. Now, the doctors behind his motivation for following almost a completely vegan diet are talking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on how more people should adopt the plan that can prevent and reverse heart disease.
Dr. Dean Ornish has been Clinton’s physician consultant since 1993 and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn is the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and the father of the Texas firefighter Rip Esselstyn who authored The Engine 2 Diet and convinced his fellow firemen at the station to eat veg to improve their health.
Dr. Esselstyn says, “When you do what President Clinton has done, when you completely try to remove any foods that are going to injure your vessel, the body has this remarkable capacity to begin to heal itself. And I’m afraid that as a medical profession we perhaps have fallen down and really emphasized too much the drugs and the procedures and the operations which really treat the symptoms. They do not treat the causes of these illnesses.”
The causes of these illnesses, Esselstyn insists, in continuing to eat “anything with a mother, anything with face.”
Katherine Heigl has pledged to donate $1 million dollars to spay and neuter programs in Los Angeles.
The “Life As We Know It” actress kicked off an initiative in collaboration with the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation called “The Compassion Revolution,” which aims to reduce the number of animals in LA area shelters.
If compassion for animals does not appeal to some, the costs of such a tragedy should be enough to make even the biggest cynic turn their head. According to The Hollywood Reporter, each year, 500,000 animals are sheltered and euthanized in California, which costs the state $250 million dollars. Heigl has emphasized to the media that many people are completely unaware of these numbers, as well as the statistics on how easily animals that aren’t fixed can multiply.
“They have no idea that a litter of 10 means a litter of, like, 400 in the future,” Heigl said. “We can tell them and educate them, and provide a way for them to spay and neuter their pets.”
Comments Off on Meatless Mouthful–Daniella Monet Is Proud Of PETA
“I could not be more proud and GRATEFUL for all that #PETA and friends of peta do to help protect the right of our voiceless animal friends.”
—Daniella Monet, from her Twitter account, on PETA’s 30th Anniversary celebration. A detailed description of the evening’s events can be found at green gossip site Ecorazzi, which includes quotes about fur and vegetarian diets from celebrities like Christian Serratos, James Cromwell, Pamela Anderson and Alec Baldwin.
Comments Off on Meatless Monday Recipe–Mark Bittman’s Giant Quinoa Tamale W/ Tomatillo Salsa
Giant Quinoa Tamale
Today’s Meatless Monday recipe is from Mark Bittman‘s latest cookbook released this month, the Food Matters Cookbook, which is described as a collection of “500, terrific, less meatatarian recipes.”
Bittman’s Giant Quinoa Tamale with Tomatillo Salsa is a completely no meatatarian dish from the book, which can easily be made vegan by either leaving off the Monterey Jack cheese or substituting with a vegan brand of Jack like Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet.
This recipe is actually 2 in 1, as the tomatillo salsa featuring the green or green-purple colored tomato can be saved for your favorite Mexican snacks later.
