Written by Vegetarian Star on January 5th, 2009 in Fashion, Fur, Not So Vegetarian.
Where is Tim Gunn and his anti-fur video when you need him?
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld recently defended the use of fur in the industry.
“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish,” he told The Telegraph.
Although he doesn’t personally wear fur, he insists that people make a living from hunting and “killing those beasts who would kill us if they could.”
Lagerfeld’s statements might make sense if we all lived in caveman days. But someone should inform him that fur today is produced in factories and much of it comes from countries with no ethical standards whatsoever as to how the animals are treated.
It’s a pretty sure thing that today’s Hollywood starlets aren’t thinking, “Darn it, that fox is going to eat me. Make me a coat, quick!” Not to mention how ferocious the 4 lb. mink are.
He agrees that animals should be killed “nicely” as much as possible and admits he’s a wuss when it comes to eating them.
“I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive,” he said.
The last time we checked, fur looks the same on or off the original live animal.
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 5th, 2009 in Fashion.
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Hushoes.com
Last month, vegan shoe lovers cried a river after learning the news that our dear Natalie Portman’s line of Te Casan shoes had ceased production due to a bad economy.
But Stella McCartney, her UK sole sister (pun intended), is still steppin’ strong and you can wear her gorgeous brown suedette boot this winter, looking sharp with a clear conscious.
Be ritzy, yet comfortable with a combination of a spike heel and slouchy ankle.
Best of all, you know the only skin ever involved with them is your own.
via Stylelist
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 5th, 2009 in Male Musicians.
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Bollywood actor Rajneesh Duggal was stuck eating veggies and rice every day after discovering France wasn’t the vegetarian mecca of the world during his visit.
He’s not the only one who feels the pain of trying to stick to your eating habits while overseas.
Larry Mullen, Jr., drummer for the band U2, described the food as being less than pleasant when he visited Morocco years ago.
“Bono had been talking about this religious festival and he mentioned it to me, thinking that I’d shoot it down. And I said, “Actually, that’s a good idea, I’d like to go back to Morocco.” The last time I was there the food was shite. I was vegetarian, full-blown, verging on vegan, and so it was a difficult time. But underneath all the cultural shock I enjoyed it. So i was happy to go back. I felt musically it would be a very good thing.”
via U2 France
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 5th, 2009 in Actresses, Fashion.
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Tis the season for returns.
The giving and receiving phase is over. Now it’s time to gather those gift receipts, switch and swap, and yes, even re-gift everything you got last month that you don’t like. Ideally, you got what you wanted. Wonder if Pamela Anderson did as well…
Last month she told Female First that all she wanted for Christmas was Stella McCartney. Now before you guys go drooling at the thought of what this might mean, we’ll set the record straight: she’s talking about cruelty-free fashion.
“You feel very alive wearing her clothes and knowing nothing has been killed,” she said.
Pamela once said she felt bad at the thought of starting the trend of wearing Ugg boots-which are made of sheepskin-that she eventually stopped wearing.
“I feel so guilty for that craze being started around my ‘Baywatch’ days – I used to wear them with my red swimsuit to keep warm – never realising that they were SKIN! I thought they were shaved kindly. People like to tell me all the time that I started that trend – yikes!”
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 4th, 2009 in Authors, Chefs, Food & Drink.
Update 1/7/09: Ani actually won 3 categories, as her book, Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen, placed first for best raw vegan book of the year. Woohoo!
Remember that awesome vegan chef, Ani Phyo, who catered Maroon 5’s vegan Halloween party? Who knew that most of the guys in Maroon 5 were vegan before she came along? We sure didn’t!
She’s won two categories in the Best of Raw 2008 poll!
Ani won for Best Raw Chef and Sexiest Raw Vegan Woman (hubba, hubba, giggity, giggity). And although she is sexy, brains are what really count, and she won second place for her intellectual efforts as a Raw Vegan Educator.
Congrats to Ani!
With celebrities like Eva Longoria and Fergie making New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier and raw, Ani just might find herself catering more vegan parties to the stars soon.
via Ani Phyo
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 3rd, 2009 in Actors, Actresses, Authors.
On the TV series “Gossip Girl”, John Patrick Amedori plays the player Aaron Rose, who dates both Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) and Blake Lively’s character, Serena van der Woodsen.
But according to the author of the books the series was based on, Cecily von Ziegesar, the real life Serena would never fall for Aaron, who she describes as “ick.”
“I do not believe that Serena would go for icky Aaron as he is portrayed on the show,” she said. “He’s so slimy!”
Book Aaron is also VEGAN, smokes herbal cigarettes, and has mini-dreadlocks.
And although plots on the big screen can carry on for weeks and weeks, book love is quite short.
She adds, “He and Serena fall in love, but it only lasts for about one book.”
via New York Mag
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 3rd, 2009 in Actors.
The vegetarian vampires of the Twilight saga are like vegetarian humans who call themselves vegetarian but say they eat chicken. Yeah…not really.
But if you’re a vampire living in Forks, Washington, then refraining from eating humans and eating forest creatures instead is vegetarian. Vampire readers in Forks, you know what we’re talking about right? Never mind, we don’t really want that question answered.
Robert Pattinson plays vegetarian vampire Edward Cullen, who thanks to his “vegetarian” diet, has topaz colored eyes. The producers couldn’t find a real human with topaz colored eyes, so when Robert got the part, they forced him to wear topaz colored contact lenses. And they can make a vegetarian vampire quite grumpy.
He told Britain’s Ok Magazine he isn’t looking forward to shooting the sequel New Moon, because he has to wear the lenses.
“It was like I constantly had sand in my eyes. I was wearing them for three months constantly and my eyes never ever accepted them! It took me 20 minutes per eye every single day and I ended up having to literally fold it into my eyeball.”
Not only that, but they inhibit vampire seductive skills.
“It was frustrating as well because normally your eyes are saying something, but if you’ve got two orange blobs in your face it’s so annoying! The director would say, ‘Look at her (Kristen Stewart) like you love her,’ and I’d be like, ‘I’m trying!'”
At least he gets the reward of munching on some forest critters in his trailer between scenes.
via Female First
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Written by Vegetarian Star on January 3rd, 2009 in Female Musicians, Female Singers.
Cause she’s got one hand in her pocket, and the other one grabbing a soy milk.
Once upon a time, Canadian diva Alanis Morissette was a strict vegetarian. Then she started to indulge in processed food here and there thinking as long as she kept everything in moderation, she’d be okay.
Fast forward 20 pounds later and feeling sluggish in the morning, Alanis decided it was time to go back, this time going all the way to being vegan.
She followed an eating plan outlined in the book Eat to Live, by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a physician associated with the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, which recommends shunning meat and dairy.
She spoke to Ok! Magazine about her new body which she said makes her feel 12 years old again about how she happened to discover Dr. Fuhrman’s book.
“I went to my favorite bookstore, Banyen Books and Sound, in Vancouver. I saw this book, Eat to Live, and I thought, that’s exactly what I want to do. I wasn’t interested in some fad diet that was unsustainable, like “lose 10 pounds in two weeks.” I don’t believe in diets; I think they’re short-term and a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. So I opened it and flipped through and thought the weight loss is incidental. The primary focus is disease prevention.”
Read Alanis’ entire interview with Ok! Magazine.
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