Written by Vegetarian Star on February 23rd, 2009 in Food & Drink, Models.
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Heather Mills has been racking up the frequent flier miles taking trips from London to the U.S. and back.
According to the UK Daily Mail, Heather is interested in building a vegan food factory in the Bronx to help bring jobs to the impoverished area in which she is promoting her vegan charity with Hunts Point Alliance.
Heather has already donated a million dollars worth of vegan food and given vegan cooking lessons to families in the area.
Navigating your way through a city you’ve never visited is bad enough without having to worry about finding a restaurant that serves good vegetarian grub!
That has changed. iPhone users can now locate veg restaurants with the VegOut application, which pulls restaurant information based on city and state.
The application was created by Brooklyn musician and free-lance software developer Champ Bennett, who personally asked Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who’s been known to waver from being a vegan to vegetarian to pescetarian, for his opinion on the application. He did get some response from Mr. Jobs.
“I couldn’t think of a better candidate to beta test the app”, Bennett said, according to a press release received via email by the blogger of Vegtalk.
“I wrote to him, and days later he actually wrote back asking when he could try it out! I responded asking for his UUID so I could build him a beta application that he could run on his iPhone. The next day he announced his hiatus from Apple and I never heard back again. Oh, well.”
The idea came to him after having a hard time finding a good place to eat while touring in Europe in mid-2008.
As of today, version 1.1 of the app is on Apple’s AppStore or click on this link to go straight to the application. For now, VegOut will only locate vegetarian and vegan restaurants, but there are plans in the future to add a function allowing users to download recipes.
MTV will be showing a series of pro-vegetarian commercials running over the next five weeks.
The ads will give a behind the scenes view of what goes on in factory farms with the TryVeg.com web address displayed on the screen for those who want more information.
“Our 2009 MTV Pro-Veg Ad campaign launches tonight: viewers around the country will see, perhaps for their first time, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the cruel world of factory farming—and they’ll be further directed to visit our website TryVeg.com for more information.”
MTV is becoming more known for its skits and shows than music, so who knows where this initial vegetarian campaign might lead to. We’re thinking a “30 Days of Veg” for the hardcore steak eater might make for some interesting Reality TV.
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Brigitte Bardot, longtime vegetarian and animal activist and actress, is asking for U.S. President Barack Obama’s help in preventing the death of seals every season during Canada’s annual seal hunt.
Bardot said she has “immense hope” in Obama, “even if I know that he is in demand from all directions and he already has a lot to do in his own country.”
The timing of her letter writing coincided with Obama’s recent visit to Canada.
Several other celebrities have spoken in opposition to the hunt, such as Canadian natives Pamela Anderson and Bryan Adams, and most recently Nigel Barker documenting the lives of the animals before they are clubbed, in his film, A Sealed Fate.
Last year, the quota for clubbed seals was 275,000. After being killed, the seals are skinned for their pelts, which are later sold.
The United States has banned all Canadian seal products since 1972 and the European Union is considering a similar ban.
Times are tough, and most of you are probably pinching the pocketbook and food is no exception.
Beans, lentils, and pasta are a cheap way for veggies to survive, but have you considered grits? Better yet, grits with Morningstar Farms Veggie Bacon?
Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA has a song with Masta Killa and Allah Real from one of his albums, Birth of a Prince, called “Grits.”
RZA, like other members of Wu Tang Clan, is a vegetarian and he sings about hard times and cheap eatin’ while mentioning “Morningstar Veggie Bacon go good with the grits.”
Tim Martin, CEO and founder of iZO Cleanze, has just completed 100 days of juicing in an effort to transform his health.
iZO Cleanze products consist of 100% organic, vegan, raw and gluten-free juices, teas and cleansing elixirs and have helped Martin rid himself of Candida, lower his cholesterol, and drop 20 pounds.
Martin now plans to slowly add vegan foods to his diet, such as soups and salads and eat 80-90% raw.
Many celebrities have reported that iZO Cleanze does it for them as well, such as Patricia Heaton, Daisy Fuentes, Eva LaRue, and Tony Shaloub.
Sheryl Lee, actress in Dirty Sexy Money and Twin Peakssaid:
“I did 10 days of the IZO cleanze over the holiday season and it was one of the best Christmas presents that I could have gotten. I took it as an opportunity to go inside and to let go of some things that were no longer working in my life and to open myself up to more health and more space for the good stuff. I feel so much better all around and even though I was a fairly healthy eater before, I am now craving even healthier foods and mostly raw.”
You can follow the iZO Cleanze CEO’s’ juicing journey on his blog.
