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Chef Rick Moonen has long worked to educate about the dangers of overfishing and ocean conservation (while still cooking up fish in his restaurants) and told Eater while some people may not think of Las Vegas as being a heart of eco-friendly practices (think all that energy required for the lights on those strips), he encountered less resistance when preaching to chefs about removing certain seafood items from the menu.
“Las Vegas is closer to more organic farms than LA. True. And I’m not sure if this is timing or if it’s just a different mentality, but there’s more chef support—people actually making menu changes and making a movement towards being more sustainable on their menu—in Vegas than when I was in New York for twenty five years. True. The chefs sort of listened, but they weren’t motivated to take any action. You know, they’d sit there and listen to me and nod their heads but you look at their menu and: Chilean sea bass, red snapper, grouper, skate. I mean, what the? You don’t know why. I personally want to help to break the debauchering reputation of Las Vegas.”
Moonen’s restaurant, Mandalay Bay, isn’t the only sustainable outlet of Vegas, as Planet Green discusses. Ronald’s Donuts, for example, is said to have a menu of almost 90% vegan donuts. If you’re the type that eats dessert before dinner, you should then swing by the Go Raw Cafe for some pizza, a wrap or drink from the juice bar.
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Frankenburger
The KFC Double Down and McGangburger have had their 15 minutes of fame. Now the Frankenburger is hoping to win the hearts (by literally stopping them) of people with it’s trio of McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King food components.
Unlike other “killer” meat sandwich combos, the Frankenburger is not simply of piling of several patties of dead flesh onto a bun. Rather it takes the meat, cheese, vegetables, fries and other ingredients from several fast food meals to create the “perfect” burger. We are already salivating at a vegan version. Here is the formula for disaster, from Village Voice.
A vegetarian and leather company? No, this isn’t an oxymoron. Bardot is the inspiration behind the new eco-friendly bag, which currently can only be seen in sketches, as it’s just in the very earliest stages of development.
Since 1876 the company has been making handbags of the animal hide type, so this should come as refreshment and sign of yet another business recognizing the market for green and cruelty-free.
Still, some are already arguing it’s risky business, especially for Bardot’s reputation as Lancel’s main product is still leather.
Anthony Bourdain has admitted to knowingly sleeping with a vegetarian. This ended relationship must obviously be why he’s called them and vegans a “persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.”
Despite his hatred for bean lovers, there’s a potential bedtime fellow he’ll never seduce–that’s McDonald’s. The Guardian contains an edited abstract from Bourdain’s latest book, Medium Raw, which describes his hatred toward the giants that suck children into meals consisting of factory farmed meat bad for people, animals and the planet.
“They know exactly when and how to start building brand identification and loyalty with brightly coloured clowns and smoothly tied-in toys. From funding impoverished school districts to the instalment of playgrounds, McDonald’s has not shrunk from fucking with young minds in any way it can. But I want my little girl to see fast-food culture as I do. As the enemy.”
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Moby interviews with KCRW on his co-edited book Gristle, veganism and zoonotic diseases.
“Almost every big global pandemic starts with confined animal production,” he said.
A more recent example of this is swine flu–the disease used to make its way through pigs on farms before it got smarter and infected humans.
The musician also touches on the benefits of a plant based diet for athletes, stating that carbohydrates and protein are easier to use than those found in meat.
Moby’s interview starts at minute 22:14, but there are several clips during this program that are relevant to vegetarians, including a segment on school lunches, polenta and a restaurant that only serves mac and cheese.
Mary McCartney has designed 100% organic cotton t-shirts for the Danish children’s label Mini A Ture. The two shirts will benefit Sunway Children’s Home, an orphanage in India, which Mini A. Ture has supported since 2005.
The shirts are available at the Selfridges store in London, and can also be ordered online.
Choosing organic cotton to design the clothing aligns well with the McCartney family’s ideals to preserve the environment. It’s estimated that cotton crops use about a quarter of all agricultural insecticides applied globally each year and according to the EPA, 7 of the top 15 pesticides used on cotton crops are either known or potential human carcinogens.
