Written by Vegetarian Star on August 31st, 2009 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Flexitarian.
Tony Gonzalez insists that his success on the football field is most closely tied with adopting “vegan principles,” according to usatoday.com.
Not a complete vegan-not even a complete vegetarian-Gonzalez still eats seafood and chicken occasionally, but has given red meat the permanent punt off his plate.
“You have to put good stuff in your body. Everybody should, but especially athletes. We’re high-performance machines. You wouldn’t put regular gas in a race car. Jimmie Johnson is going to put the high-octane, good stuff in there. It’s the same thing for football players. You’d be surprised by how many players don’t do it. But I’ve seen the results.”
Tony’s trying to get the wifey on board too, but she’s not the best willing participant.
Uh-oh.
Does she need a Skinny Bitch to keep her in line?
“She’s having trouble. When I cook, she’s eating good. But if she has to do it on her own, she might not make the best choices.”
Tony made the switch to a mainly vegetarian diet after sitting next to a man who ordered a vegan meal on a plane flight and bugging the heck out of him with questions, which led Tony to read The China Study, which outlines how diseases that drive health care costs up can be prevented with a plant based diet.
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 31st, 2009 in Animal Issues, Female Singers.
Comments Off on Bif Naked Song “Sick” Addresses Puppy Mills, Seal Hunting
Bif Naked has a new album out, The Promise, that was created during her fight with cancer and energy zapping chemotherapy.
So most people would think that a song from the album titled “Sick,” would detail Bif’s tumultuous battle with the disease.
Not entirely.
Bif, a raw vegan, is also an animal activist and used to song as a vehicle to express her disgust with some animal industries.
“Sick” is just another word to describe many of the injustices the weaker have to endure.
“‘Sick’ also addresses how I feel about the seal hunt and the puppy mills on Vancouver Island,” said Bif, according to straight.com.
“Obviously, docetaxel and carboplatin made me sick, but the premise of the song, for sure, is there’s just so many travesties and injustices that we have to outrun all the time.”
Bif got so sick during her treatment, she had to temporarily eat something not vegan-yam rolls-because they were the only things she could keep down.
Blah! Sounds horrible.
Happy return to vegan foods, Bif!
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 28th, 2009 in Animal Issues, TV Hosts.
Comments Off on Layla Kayleigh PETA Cruelty Free Cosmetics Ad
PETA has unveiled its latest ad against animal testing.
Layla Kayleigh, the star of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, is asking you to think before buying lipstick or mascara that may have been worn on a rabbit or rat first.
“I don’t think people are purposely buying cosmetics and household products that are tested on animals. I just don’t think they think twice. … It really takes such a small thing to make such big impact, you know, and I feel like the more people get involved, the more it can make a difference.”
Check to see that your makeup is cruelty-free at caringconsumer.com.
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 28th, 2009 in Actresses, Food & Drink.
Has one of our favorite vegan actresses fallen to the scoop?
During an interview with Jake Gyllenhaal for Interview magazine, Jake asked Natalie Portman what her favorite food was.
Natalie said she not only loved “Carvel Ice Cream,” but there was no way you could make it any better.
PORTMAN: Well, I don’t think you can really improve upon Carvel ice cream cake.
GYLLENHAAL: I’m more Baskin-Robbins style myself.
PORTMAN: Oh really? I am so Carvel. Did I just bring us back to 1985 Long Island?
From the dialogue provided, it looks like Natalie was thinking back in the days…when she still ate dairy.
1985? Wasn’t she still sporting her training wheels while eating that Carvel ice cream?
What do you think? Is Nat milking the cow while she listens to obscene hip hop music?
We’d hate to think so, given the fact there are so many vegan ice cream brands out there.
via Ecorazzi.com
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 28th, 2009 in Actresses, Film & TV, Food & Drink.
Comments Off on Halloween 2 Gave Sheri Moon Zombie Food Horror Stories
Sheri Moon Zombie, wife of director and musician Rob Zombie, learned the hard way it’s not always easy to get veg food in every part of the country.
While filming for Halloween 2 in Georgia, Sherri said she had the choice of either fast food or Walmart.
“I did not like Georgia at all. We stayed in this town called Covington and, whenever I had a day off, it was Walmart or fast food. I’m a vegetarian, so I don’t eat fast food. And, I said, “If I go into Walmart again, I’m going to shoot myself.”
Sounds like a true horror story.
Rob’s a veggie too and he’s even included two main characters that are vegetarian in Halloween 2, which hit the theatres today.
via iesb.net
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 28th, 2009 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Food & Drink, Models, Reality TV.
Comments Off on Torrie Wilson: The Semi-Vegetarian
We told you how wrestling champion and model Torrie Wilson was convinced to go vegetarian after spending some quality time with John Salley in the jungle.
Uh, in the jungle for I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.
Always important to explain yourself fully.
Anyway, turns out Torrie is not completely veg-she still eats birds.
But at least she’s dramatically cut a lot of meat from her diet.
From Diva-Dirt.com:
You noted that you’ve become a vegetarian since leaving the jungle, how did that come about?
Torrie: I have become semi-vegetarian. I cut out most meat but do still eat a small amount of turkey and chicken here and there. John Salley taught me a lot about the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle and I took lots of mental notes! I also felt great after not eating meat for 30 days, so I figured something must be right!
Does she realize how great she’ll feel after cutting all meat from her diet?
C’mon Torrie, we know you can do it!
Think of it as a challenge competition to smoke Sanjaya.
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 28th, 2009 in Female Musicians, Female Singers, Food & Drink.
Comments Off on Chrissie Hynde Tells Meat Eaters To [Expletive] Themselves
Hilarious!
Chrissie Hynde is normally quite calm, but still opinionated when sharing her views on vegetarianism and animals.
We think all the excitement from one of her recent performance made her a little less inhibited.
In Toronto, Chrissie grabbed the mic and yelled:
“Meat eaters, go [expletive]yourselves.”
Fiona Morrow at theglobeandmail.com wanted to keep her column clean.
You can fill in the blank as to what you think Chrissie said.
Poor Chrissie had to say something after she smelled something coming from the barbecue stand.
Wonder why she didn’t just ban meat like she’s done before?
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Written by Vegetarian Star on August 27th, 2009 in Food & Drink, TV Hosts.
You’ve probably heard by now that PETA has replaced it’s controversial “Save The Whales” billboard featuring an obese woman with one less offensive, but still advocating vegetarianism.
Talk show host Montell Williams recently sat down with PETA’s president Ingrid Newkirk to discuss the billboard.
Williams’ questions whether PETA went too far.
MW: Ingrid, you have admit, come on, I’ve got it, you were controversial, you hit your home run, it went out of the park, I’m talking about it for three days. And the rest of America is going to keep talking about it. But the truth is, I think Joseph is right. Any child who would use that as a reason, or anybody who now says ‘those fat people are people who pick on animals,’ come on, we’ve got to slow down a little bit.
IN: I wish more than anything you can ever imagine that we could not be controversial, and we could not be provocative. I really do.
Montell even suggests why not make it equal opportunity and put men on the billboard versus targeting women.
His daughter, Wyntergrace, is veggie.
Maybe he’s afraid one day she’ll get naked for a campaign!
Visit airamerica.com to hear the entire commentary.
via deceiver.com
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