Vegetarian Star

The self proclaimed “fish eating vegetarian” Jeremy Piven claims he had to withdraw from the production of a play, Speed-The-Plow, because he developed mercury poisoning.

However, it doesn’t appear as if he’s learned his lesson, as he’s still chowing down on Charlie Tuna and his little mermaid brothel.

He was recently spotted eating calamari salad and tuna tartare surrounded by the ladies, including Michael Phelps’ ex, Marina Katz, at the Mondrian Hotel’s Sunset Lounge.

“After recovering from mercury poisoning, a patient should be avoiding foods that are known to be contaminated with mercury, such as tuna, for at least three months,” Dr. Grace Keenan told OK!.

After recovering from mercury poisoning, you’d think a patient would be terrified to touch any tuna for more than three months. Sigh…

Source: OK! via Deceiver

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You bet she has issues. Like how to handle all the sudden fame and popularity!

Jane Velez-Mitchell, the vegan anchor who replaced Glenn Beck on CNN news spinoff HLN, is burning up the ratings chart.

During it’s third month on air, Jane’s “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” pulled in HLN’s largest 7PM audience since it launched in February 2005.

And in January 2009, “Issues” averaged 531,000 total viewers and 221,000 adults 25-54, a 50% increase in total viewers and a 46% increase in the demo over her predecessor’s January 2008 ratings.

If you remember us telling you, Jane has used her TV spotlight to highlight tons of animal issues, from puppy mills and adoption to spaying and neutering to California’s Proposition 2.

And if her popularity is rising, that can only mean a bigger chance for her to get these “issues” to the public so they’ll be more informed.

Congrats to Jane. Let us know when the vegan foods segment is airing. We’ll be Tivo-ing it, for sure!

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Julius-Louis Dreyfus is on the cover of the April issue of Shape magazine. Inside, the old “Seinfeld” sidekick and The New Adventures of Old Christine actress says she feels “guilty” for not being a vegetarian.

“I love vegetables— I should be a vegetarian, and I feel guilty saying I’m not,” says Julia. “But I like meat and chicken. So I buy organic foods whenever they’re available and shop at my local farmers’ market whenever I can. There’s something cozy about it. It’s a very friendly environment; you get to know the farmers. Plus, it’s better for the earth because the food is grown nearby, not flown in from some faraway place like South America.”

Has reading the teleprompter over all these years affected Julia’s vision? Has she not been to one of her “local” grocery stores and seen the abundant supply of fake chicken and other meats?

Thank goodness she’s at least getting her fruits and veggies local to help offset some of that meat and chicken carbon footprint.

“My biggest food vice is bacon,” she said. “In fact, I don’t keep bacon in my house — that would be way too tempting.”

There’s a substitute for that too, Julia.

Maybe the old Christine should go on some new adventures to the soy meat area the next time she goes shopping for some organic food.

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Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and singer, who like some in the entertainment business, dabbled in drugs. OK, not really dabbled, but made another part time career in it.

He once suffered a drug induced coma at Kate Moss’ 21st birthday party at the Viper Room, the same club where River Phoenix died two years before.

Once he and partner Angela Malloch had their eldest child, Jemma, he cleaned up his lifestyle, but has he become addicted to another pleasure? In an interview with the UK Times Online:

“We start here, and we toxify ourselves, we realise the damage we do, and we all become vegan f***ing soy bean addicts.”

A vegan soy bean addict sure sounds like fun. The drug is cheap, tasty, and is even good for you in moderate amounts.

While in some regions it may be hard to find, in others it’s on every street corner-at convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants, and food carts.

And you never have to worry about developing a code word to ask for it.

Show us a dealer. We wanna get hooked.

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A lot can change in two years. Joaquin Phoenix has undergone a transformation lately, and not just in his career. Some people are into that scruffy, hobo look. Some wish he would make an appointment with the barber. Don’t even get us started on that gansta rap thing. So between the two Joaquins, who would you rather do…

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Food writer and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman once said that “if pigs were raised in prison”, he “wouldn’t care as long as they tasted good.”

Ten years later, he tells what is seemingly a more caring storing about animal welfare.

“I don’t know if that means they’re subhuman or just different than humans, but there’s certainly no reason to mistreat them as badly as we do,” he told Josh Hardow and Michael Rau at the Library Journal.

“I guess if you’re going to kill them and eat them, you’re mistreating them to some extent anyway, but there are degrees of that.”

One has to question some of his motives for better animal welfare, as he added that if anything would affect the taste of meat, it would be the industry’s disregard for both animals and the environment through their mass production methods of bringing it to the supermarket.

But you must give him credit, as he’s including fewer and fewer meat meals in both his personal diet and his cookbooks.

While by no means a vegetarian (yet), in his newest book, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes, he’s advocated switching to a more plant based diet.

It all started while he was revising one of his How To Cook Everything books (one of which is vegetarian) in 2005-2006. “If I’m eating less meat, and I think everybody should be eating less meat, maybe I don’t need 600 or 700 recipes including meat,” he said of his revisions.

While going all the way is ideal, part time vegetarians or flexitarians still have much to gain in terms of reducing food costs and improving health, not to mention lessening environmental impact and animal suffering.

And Bittman seems to agree.

“It was going to be called The Food Matters Cookbook, but if I could get people using the word “lessmeatarian,” I’d be ecstatic.

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When Candice Bergen was asked by wowowow.com, “Are you eating more organic food than you were a year ago?” he response was:

“I haven’t eaten red meat for 40 years. I wish I could give up chicken (except free-range) but then I’m down to fish which seem a) tainted, and b) endangered. By the way, I don’t not eat meat mainly for health reasons but also because I had an epiphany walking through Les Halles at the age of 23 that eating meat is disgusting, arrogant, oblivious and unconscionably cruel. Moving on … I try increasingly to eat only organic veggies and fruit.”

Talk about wowowow! We’re glad she’s aiming for organic fruits and veggies, but does the former Murphy Brown and Boston Legal star actually think she only has chicken and fish left after red meat? What is it about some people that can only use one hand to count the number of protein source available to them? 

After chicken and fish, she’s down to seitan, tempeh, tofu, pasta, beans,yogurt, legumes, nut butters, grains, and not to mention the dozens of fake meats.

Surely, as famous as Candice is, she could even hire a personal vegan chef like Anthony Kiedis did to whip up all things completely vegetarian-not just excluding red meat-in her kitchen.

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Dita Von Teese was spotted having lunch at Tobey Maguire’s favorite vegan restaurant, Real Food Daily.

We have to give the burlesque beauty entertainer both a thumbs up and thumbs down.

Von Teese worked with PETA in a campaign to encourage pet owners to spay and neuter their animals and was also set to star in a Beauty Without Cruelty campaign in cooporation with Chanel, to show how animal cruelty was unnecessary in the cosmetic industry.

But she has a collection of vintage furs she’s not ashamed to discuss.

“PETA’s totally aware of me,” she once told PEOPLE. “I’m not working with PETA to tell people to be vegetarians or to stop wearing fur. I am there to strictly speak about spaying and neutering your pets.”

PETA had responded by saying, “She said she has some vintage furs she wears occasionally. PETA often works with a celebrity on an issue they feel comfortable supporting, whether it’s supporting spaying and neutering, or speaking out against products that are tested on animals. So they may not be an animal rights activist, but their contribution to any of our campaigns is appreciated.” 

Could her recent visit to a vegan restaurant mean she’s leaning towards vegetarianism and will feel comfortable supporting this issue in the future?

If so, this beauty could make a nude, pro-vegetarian ad that would make a habitual steak eater try tempeh.

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