The word is that American Idol season 2 winner Ruben Studdard is back on the veg wagon, after gossip that he had fallen off.
According to Ruben, he’s feeling better than ever and in great health, despite not having a 32 inch waistline.
“I am a vegetarian now and I think that’s the one thing that saved me from being over the top. I also work out every day and have a trainer on the road with me. I saw pictures of myself at the beginning of ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Ruben Studdard CD and I look like a whole other person now. I’m down like five or six pants sizes. I’ve been a vegetarian for about two and a half years now. I probably miss fried chicken the most. I feel better. You can’t pay for the way you feel after you start. I’m not saying that people who eat meat don’t feel great because I’m sure they do, but it works for me. I don’t want people that sell meat to be knocking on my door saying, ‘You’re still fat. You ain’t lost that much weight.'”
Hey, who said going veg was about going thin?
Are you a “pleasantly plump” or “thick” veg who still has low cholesterol and a kick ass resting heart rate? Did dropping the hot dog bring you health benefits, even if it didn’t bring you six pack abs or a size 2 dress?
Just a day after we posed the question of whether or not vegetarians and vegans should make more efforts stay away from substances, vegan singer Chrissie Hynde announces she’s giving up alcohol. Again.
“I last drank two weeks ago and I’ve put the cork in the bottle – I’m never drinking again. I’ve said it a few hundred times before, but I mean it this time.”
The decision came after a night of several drinks and wild times.
Apparently Chrissie did some Katy Perry thing with a girl and it surprised her.
“I think I tried to snog a girl. I woke up and thought, ‘I can’t be doing stuff like that!'”
Several celebrities have recorded PSAs that deal with issues discussed in Food Inc., a movie where filmmaker Robert Kenner exposes the truths about our nation’s food supply, from the pitfalls of factory farming to safety of workers harvesting food in the fields.
NBA legend John Salley has recorded a clip titled “Animals As Food”, where he discusses the unpleasant realities of factory farmed meat.
“Believe it or not, most supermarket food does not grow on that pretty little farm you see on the package,” John says, as he makes a pitch for vegetarianism, citing the pollution caused from livestock gases.
Here’s a little PSA Simon Cowell did awhile back about never leaving Fido or Fluffy in a parked car because the temperatures can rise so quickly.
“From be it from me to be critical,” Simon sarcastically says, “But I find it really abhorring that this year, thousands of dogs will die of heat stroke inside parked cars.”
It doesn’t matter if think you’re going to be a minute-you never know what delay could happen!
Take your four-legged friend with you when you leave the car and you both will get through the summer together.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta used to be a hard core partyer like the rest of his bandmates.
Then, when one ex member, Jeremy Ward, died of an overdose of drugs in 2003, Omar and the rest of Mars Volta were scared into straight edge vegans who won’t even drink coffee.
Now, you don’t have to be a coffee abstainer to be a vegan or a vegetarian. You can still have your beer.
But could the vegetarian and vegan community benefit its members from promoting a substance free lifestyle that uses even legal substances sparingly?
The late River Phoenix was known as a hippie, easy go lucky vegan. But behind his clean diet was a drug habit that led to his death.
Vegans may be stereotyped as pot smoking people, but is it time for that to change? Should the abstinence of drugs and alcohol and the avoidance of heavy medications even if they are legal be pushed as much as not buying leather?
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 10th, 2009 in Fur, Models.
Comments Off on Model Suzanne McCabe Will Pose In PETA’s First Irish Anti-Fur Ad
PETA is definitely the type of organization that looks for world domination.
They’ve recruited dozens of US and European celebrities to front anti-fur, vegetarian, and other animal rights campaigns and are inching in on South America with Lydia Guerra. Now, Irish animal lovers will be proud to call Suzanne McCabe their own as she’ll be starring in PETA’s first “I’d Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur” campaign in the country.
McCabe recently turned vegetarian as well, so it couldn’t get any better!
“It’s not tacky at all; it’s very tastefully done,” McCabe said. “You can’t really see anything, but it still gets the message across, which is the most important thing.”
“My parents weren’t overly delighted when they heard about the nudity, but they know how important the cause is to me and I know once they see the pictures they will be happy.”
“It’s incredibly exciting because this is the first time this PETA campaign has ever been done here.”
McCabe’s ad is expected to go public by the end of the summer.
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 10th, 2009 in Humor, Videos.
Comments Off on Gerald Goode Gets Surprise Chicken In Vegetarian Chili
Have you ever taken a sip of cheesy potato soup only to find it has undisclosed bacon in it?
The Goode Family is an ABC comedy that features the politically correct, eco-loving vegan family, the Goodes.
Tonight the father, Gerald Goode, is in for an unpleasant surprise when he finds out his “meatless” chili actually contains chicken in the episode, “A Goode Game of Chicken.”
He decides to confront a local celebrity chef named “Cranky” about the issue. In the meantime, the Goode vegan dog, Che, who secretly eats neighborhood animals, goes missing.
Above is a clip from “Be Yourself Moment.”
The Goode Family is on ABC tonight and every Fridays at 8:30/7:30c.
Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters, both vegetarian women who love animals, will once again host the 11th annual Broadway Barks, a celebrity rich cat and dog adopt-a-thon benefiting New York city’s animal shelters and adoption agencies.
Twenty four-legged creatures will be up for adoption at the event this Saturday, July 11 between 3:30 and 6:30 PM at Schubert Alley in New York City.
If you think this is just another reason for celebrities to get their faces in the press, think again. This deal saves lives!
“According to recent statistics, we learned that we are making a difference,” said Mary Tyler Moore. “In 2002, the rate of euthanasia among shelter animals was at 74% of total intake. We are proud that as a result of our efforts, in 2008, the number of animals killed in NYC shelters has dropped to 39% of total intake. That means nearly 15,000 fewer animals have been euthanized in our city’s shelters compared to 2003.”
Visit Broadwaybarks.com for more information on this weekend’s event.
