We knew we were going to love Biz Stone once we found out he was vegan. But who knew we’d be jumping and cheering for the Twitter co-founder this much.
Biz is following Wyntergrace Williams‘ lead and lobbying Congress to ensure vegetarian meals are included in school lunches.
Biz sent a letter to Rep. George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee to support the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, which would add a vegetarian friendly option to children’s school lunches.
It took a little more than 140 characters for Biz to express himself, but we think he’s done it well based on this excerpt.
“Hundreds of thousands of students across the country don’t eat meat, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. However, these young vegetarians often can’t find healthy, meatless meals in the school cafeteria … Even students who aren’t vegetarian would benefit from having low-fat, high-fiber vegetarian options.”
The world’s most famous Skinny Bitch, isn’t stingy when it comes to causes she cares about.
Rory Freedman, co-author of the famous Skinny Bitch series, has offered to donate $5,000 to peta2 in her mother’s honor, but only if you help her out.
Rory will match donations, dollar for dollar, up to $5,000 for every bit you donate to Peta2.
Let’s say you found a machined washed $10 bill in your winter coat after giving it the final cleaning for the season. Like Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers would say, “Give it away, give it away, give it away now.” Rory will donate her $10 (although maybe not as washed out and wrinkled) to match your money!
Mother’s Day doesn’t last year round and neither does this donation challenge. You have three days to dig those coins from the couch cushions.
Although her vegan diet book, The Kind Diet, isn’t set to debut until the fall, Alicia just couldn’t wait to spill the vegan refried beans to Fitsguar.com about some of the recipes in it.
“One of the recipes in my book is leftover nori (a type of seaweed) wraps,” Silverstone said. “Anything in the fridge I want to use up, I shove into nori. It’s delicious.”
“It makes your skin look amazing and your hair really strong.”
Yep, Nori is full of good for you stuff like calcium, iron, and magnesium. You can make yourself some awesome veggie sushi or wrap it up and stuff it with veggies and dressing.
And who doesn’t like eating like a star?
If you have a good idea for using Nori or any other seaweed, you know the drill. You must speak now!
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and you slackers better head to the mall quick.
Even if your mom isn’t the best in the world, she still deserves some love this weekend as she can’t possibly be worst than the television mothers featured at televisionwithoutpity.com.
They’ve compiled a top 10 list of TV’s worst moms and Desperate Housewive’s Marcia Cross‘ character, Bree Van De Kamp is on the list.
Yep, that definitely marks her off our Hallmark and FTD list. No vegan chocolates either. She’s lucky if she gets a phone call. And even that will be collect.
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 8th, 2009 in Actresses.
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So she screwed up her vegan icing. Big deal! The cupcakes were still delicious nosh and Jessica Alba made a good effort to give baby Honor Marie Warren a healthier, non-dairy sweet. This woman deserves a vegan Mother’s Day basket!
“When people consume a diet filled with super nutrient-dense foods, they can maximize their genetic potential for health and well-being,” said B?KU™ Master Formulator, Dr. BJ Adrezin. “B?KU™ Super Food is formulated to give people a potent boost in the right direction.”
Other celeb moms selected to receive their superboost are Angelina Jolie, Tori Spelling, Nicole Richie, Camila Alve, Gwen Stefani, Minnie Driver, Rebecca Romijn and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz.
What do you think of all these “superfoods” anyway? Are items enriched with particular nutrients any better than seeking out plain, regular food that’s naturally filled with vitamins and minerals?
If you haven’t heard already, Oprah Winfrey has both shocked and angered animal rights activists across the nation by teaming up with Kentucky Fried Chicken to offer free chicken dinners to every home in America.
KFC is on the “naughty” and not “nice” list with organizations like PETA, due to the way the chickens it uses are treated.
Now, we can add one more sin Oprah is contributing to now that she’s signed a pact with the Colonel devil: swine flu.
Brian Merchant atTreehugger.com has this to say on the matter:
“I was dismayed to hear that Oprah was helping to push KFC’s free chicken promotion. Wasn’t quite sure why, initially—after all, ‘free food for everyone’ is generally a pretty positive notion. But then I recalled that KFC buys its chicken from Tyson—one of the US’s biggest factory farmers and perpetrator of shady health practices. And then I remembered that Oprah herself did an expose on the cruelty of factory farms , essentially condemning them. And then I realized that the ploy couldn’t have come at a worse time: US factory farms have been confirmed to have played a role in the origin of swine flu.”
“The point isn’t that Oprah screwed up–it’s that we should all be more aware of the practices that lead to the food on our table (or in the takeout window).”
Read what else Brian has to say on Oprah at treehugger.com.
“My favorite website that I can’t live without is GirlieGirlArmy.com because it has fashion and eco-fashion and a recipe every week. They send out a newsletter so you can find out what’s going on. That’s the one I love.”
Watch the video to hear what else Emily can’t do without.
The recipients of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People gathered together for dinner recently at Time Warner center.
Vegetarian fashion designer Stella McCartney was present and of course needed some adaptions from the standard fare served.
KFSM.com reported on this in a somewhat sarcastic way.
“The only star who asked for anything was designer Stella McCartney. She’s famously vegan and could not, would not, consume the lovely steak fillet. So a “special” vegetarian plate was done up for Stella. It looked exactly like everybody else’s meal. Except hers was a cleverly disguised Portobello mushroom. She was not shunned or mocked by the carnivores at her table. But, she could feel morally superior. (Then again, what do we really know about the inner-life of a mushroom?)”
Shunned or mocked? Oh, please. Stella McCartney could eat grass at the dinner table and no one would turn a head.
