“I’m 68, but if you saw me you’d think I’m 45. That’s because I’ve been a vegan for eight years. My wife and I walk every night two miles from this vegan restaurant home. I eat there about four times a week. Something about being a vegan; it’s life-prolonging.”
Like Alyssa Milano, Cloris stripped bare-only to cover back up again with a blended red cabbage, beet, and iceberg lettuce dress for the “Let Vegetarianism Grow on You” campaign.
And she gets to drink a margarita while doing so!
“It feels comfortable and fits me too,” she told Access Hollywood. “You realize you feel wonderful…fresh, new, healthy. And you didn’t have to kill any animals to feel this way.”
She said that once you find out about something, you want to tell everyone about it. She feels people still “don’t know” the benefits of vegetarianism and they’re encouraged to eat meat by the meat industries and advertising.
Cloris has two strip shows, so be sure to watch Video 1 and Video 2.
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After Ellen
On a recent Top Chef Elimination Challenge, the chefs had it easy-serve up whatever you want that best showcases your talent.
Contestant Carla really wanted to serve a vegetarian dish, but thought not having a protein would make her lose points.
Maybe it’s time for Carla to take a basic nutrition course as well as cooking classes. Although the judges might not be tofu and tempeh fans, there are plenty of plant based proteins that would have made her dish shine like beans, lentils, or whole grain pasta. If vegan was good enough for the Foo Fighters, it most certainly would have impressed the judges that day.
But she settled for tossing scallops into a mint risotto.
This was double elimination night, so Carla, Melissa, and Eugene were put on the front line and Carla was rescued for another week. Saved by the scallop? Nah, she could have shined otherwise.
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Professional motocross racer Adam Jones played the role of smart-aleck recently.
The History Channel is hosting Armageddon week and Ryan Leyba at ESPN wanted to get Jones’ opinion on how the world will come to an end.
Leyba: I’d like to think that it’s going to rain hot dogs, pizza and candy and everyone is going to eat themselves to death.
Jones: Well if hot dogs, pizza and candy fell from the sky the only way the world would end is if we had a massive celebration until we ate so much pizza and hot dogs our hearts stopped beating.
Of course then some vegan burgers would also have to fall from the sky to kill all our non-carnivorous friends.
Not sure if Adam thinks gorging on vegan burgers produces the same health effect as the real thing or not. Maybe he just thinks they’ll fall from the sky and knock us on the head.
If given the choice between death by heart failure from hot dogs or vegan burgers knocking you out cold, a vegan burger asteroid has got to be the better option. It’s quick, painless, and you’ll never know what hit you.
It doesn’t matter anyway, because according to Jones, Joaquin Phoenix and Mel Gibson, who would normally be around to save us, will be absent and the aliens will eat us.
All the more reason to be killed by a falling vegan burger. We hear cannibalistic death is horrible.
Chef Michael Ginor of Hudson Valley Foie Gras in New York and author of Foie Gras: A Passion is weighing in on PETA’s The Fine Faux Gras Challenge appears to have a Gordon Ramsay split personality when it comes to creating a vegetarian version of foie gras and the challenge presented by PETA for chefs to do so.
He thinks it’s a great idea. But no serious chef would do it. It provides another option. But chefs aren’t supposed to make substitutions. An excerpt from The National Post:
I think it’s great. People should always have alternatives. I also think it’s ridiculous in a sense, because you can find substitutes for steak. It’s another vegetarian thing. It’s not going to be foie gras, it’s obviously another PR campaign to try and get people to not eat foie gras. They’re not going to find an alternative to foie gras because there just isn’t one.
Ginor then went on to say that he hasn’t been asked to enter the competition and “no serious high end chef would want to do this.”
No, a faux foie gras chef isn’t a hardcore chef. And chefs have better things to do.
Before you know it, there will be a substitution for quail, a substitution for squab and a substitution for steak. That’s not the point of a restaurant.
Looking forward to hearing his response when he tries the winner’s faux foie gras. We’re sure it will probably be something along the lines of “It tastes the same, but no serious chef should ever admit it.”
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“The destruction to the environment by using large areas of land to feed cattle or pigs is actually taking up an awful lot of land that could be used to produce far more protein, if it was vegetable protein. Making animal protein is wasteful.”
—-Vegetarian renowned primatologist and author Dr. Jane Goodall. She, like actress Emily Deschanel, is featured in a video series by SupremeMasterTV.
Written by Vegetarian Star on January 10th, 2009 in Actresses, Children.
Comments Off on Lisa Bonet: Bringing Baby Up Vegetarian?
Congratulations to Life on Mars actress Lisa Bonet! She recently gave birth to baby boy, Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa.
Yes, he’ll have to put a few more hours into kindergarten homework to master how to spell that. Unless he just goes by Wolf.
The actress is 40, but you’d never be able to tell from looking at her. Not to mention she used fantastic cougar skills to grab herself a 29 year old man!
No doubt her vegetarian lifestyle has kept her looking good since her “Cosby Show” days, so we’re wondering if baby Wolf will be reared veg as well.
