Comments Off on Top Chef Delivers Winning Tofu Dish
Top Chef included a gender bending vegan challenge during a recent elimination.
The guys had to cook for the bride and the women had to cook for the groom.
The bride’s entourage required the cheftestants to cook for a vegetarian in the bunch.
Scott Tobias, at avclub.com, made light of this situation by poking fun of the pescatarian bride:
“Meanwhile, the bride is more troublesome: She’s a pescatarian (Swim, Nemo, swim! Faster! Faster!) and one of her friends is a vegan, so plenty of fish and at least one non-animal-based dish are an absolute must.”
In the end, the guys won and cheftestant Hector got praise for his tofu dish.
Which is nice, Tobias pointed out, since seitan got the ax last time.
We won’t ask what happened to Flipper. It might be too hard to handle.
Comments Off on Jason Mraz Resists Corn Dogs At Indiana State Fair
County and state fairs are the hub for vegetarian food, right?
Ha!
And Jimmy Dean makes soy sausages.
Unfortunately fairs are often filled with greased bathed, crusted delicacies of beef, pork and chicken, not to mention all the sugar that would give even a non diabetic problems.
Imagine how out of place raw vegan Jason Mraz felt while playing for the Indiana State Fair recently, where there are copious amounts of midwestern farm exhibits (live pigs, cows-which sometimes are placed near beef samples. How rude!) in addition to your standard meat fare.
When a reporter asked him about resisting all the “tempting” foods, Jason answered, “No problem. I think I missed the pig races as well.”
However, we shouldn’t stereotype fairs, as the ISF has plenty of corn on the cob (this is Indiana, remember. Corn is like, the official state vegetable) and last year’s fair had, you guessed it, fried broccoli, onions, and other wholesome veggies.
Have you attend a local fair that surprised you with the amounts of vegetarian or even vegan foods?
Note: The writer of this post has lived in Indiana and attended the state fair once. Hence, the sarcasm. No offense Hoosiers.
The nation is mourning the death of what has been called the last of the great Kennedy “dynasty,” as Senator Ted Kennedy lost his battle with brain cancer Tuesday evening.
Senator Kennedy was an animal lover who owned two dogs, Splash and Sunny, who were at his side on Capitol Hill like a personal assistant or intern would be.
He was influential in several legislative measures to improve animal treatment, including ending commercial whaling, limiting antibiotic use in farm animals and increasing the penalty for dog and rooster fighting from a misdemeanor to a felony just to name a few.
We’ve not only lost a great politician and a Kennedy, we’ve lost an advocate and champion for those who can’t speak for themselves.
Comments Off on Leilani Munter Plus Ecobabble Equals Eco Friendly Race Merchandise
Everybody’s favorite “Vegetarian Hippie Chick” in race car driving has teamed up with a company that produces eco friendly t-shirts to produce her racing merchandise.
Leilani Munter will be driving the Firestone Indy Lights car at the season finale at Chicagoland Speedway on August 29.
Ecobabble has signed up to be one of Leilani’s partners in her quest to make race car driving more environmentally friendly.
A recycle bin will be placed in Leilani’s pit at the track for fans to place their soda and water bottles, which Ecobabble will use to manufacture 50/50 cotton/polyester t-shirts.
“I am excited to be working with Ecobabble to offer eco friendly merchandise,” said Leilani, “And I’d also like to thank Chicagoland Speedway for allowing me to have a recycle bin in my pit. Together we are teaming up to help make a greener world and I am just proud to be a part of it.”
Cool fact: It takes 5 plastic bottles to make one t-shirt.
If you started saving your cola bottles, you might never need to shop at The Gap again.
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“They torture these chickens. No one else is defending these animals.”
“If people are still going to McDonald’s, can McDonald’s stop torturing these beautiful animals that they’re making their profits out of?”
—-Chrissie Hynde, during recent protests against McDonald’s in Utah for the way the PETA alleges the company slaughters its chickens, including having their legs broken, throats slashed, and scalded in de-feathering tanks.
PETA wants McDonald’s to switch to chickens that are killed via Controlled Atmosphere Killing-a process that cuts off the animal’s oxygen until it dies.
Comments Off on Wyntergrace Williams Veg School Lunches Ad Hits Primetime
Do you tune into The Secret Life of the American Teenager?
If so, you might have caught Montell Williams’ daughter, Wyntergrace Williams, in a primetime ad meant to urge Congress to ensure vegetarian options are always available in school lunches.
Wyntergrace is now giving dad a run for his daytime talk show money!
The campaign brought to you by the folks at the Physicians’ Committee For Responsible Medicine, is an effort to get changes made to the Child Nutrition Act, which sets the standards for school lunches.
Other vegetarian names like actor Tobey Maguire and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone have lobbied Congress for these changes as well.
David Mirkin, executive producer for The Simpsons has pulled in some great celebrities to guest star on the show including Leonard DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, and Paul McCartney.
McCartney was quite adamant about the conditions of his appearance, though.
He agreed to only do it if Mirkin kept Lisa Simpson a vegetarian for every episode.
“It’s actually Paul McCartney who was responsible for another permanent change,” Mirkin said. “When I asked him to do the vegetarian episode, he agreed but made me promise to keep Lisa as a vegetarian – and I was happy to comply with that because I’m a vegetarian too! Every time I see him, he always checks – and he’s always surrounded by nine or ten lawyers, so it’s quite frightening!”
Lisa is a veg. Apu is a veg. David is a veg. We’re hoping Marge’s twin sisters make the plunge next!
