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Ellen DeGeneres recently featured authors Kathy Freston and Tal Ronnen on her show for a vegan segment.

Freston helps one family make the gradual transition of adding more vegan meals into its diet to combat some health problems like high cholesterol.

This is a family that professes to eat meat every day and they’re completely open to the idea with one caveat: dad hopes his beer doesn’t get taken away.

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Like many people born in India, Padma Lakshmi grew up in a vegetarian family.

Unfortunately, that changed as a teenager when she lived in New York and gradually started eating the Standard American Diet of bologna, pizza and burgers.

The tragedy of good vegetarian girl gone bad came to its lowest point when Lakshmi did a food porn commercial for Hardee’s Thickburger.

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, March 28th, 2011 in Actresses, Birthdays, Models.

A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

Photo: PR Photos

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Saturday, March 26th, 2011 in Actors, Birthdays.

A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

Photo: PR Photos

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Bob’s Burgers got a lukewarm reaction from us, but the weekly alternative newspaper Boise Weekly has complaints its burger experience was served raw in an article titled, “Bob’s Burgers Might Make You Go Vegetarian.”

“Bob’s Burgers, about two months into its debut, is a show about Bob Belcher and his family­–a wife with a grating New York accent (voiced by a man), a dumb son who doesn’t understand anything and two dumb daughters who don’t understand anything. They’re trying to run a profitable hamburger shop.”

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Runway to Green is launching a collection of fashions created by some of the world’s top designers in order to raise awareness about environmental issues.

Each designer has created an item for the Runway to Green collection that will be available in retail stores nationwide. These same designers have made the commitment to investigate more sustainable manufacturing standards set forth by the Clean by Design intiative from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

All designers pledged to adhere to eco-friendly standards when creating the pieces, so it’s no surprise vegan designer John Bartlett made the decision to write to Salma Hayek, one of the hosts of the event, urging her to keep fur out.

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Alicia Silverstone Vegan Snacks Include Carob Chips

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, March 25th, 2011 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

Alicia Silverstone looks like she’s about to have a beautiful vegan baby any day now!

It’s a good bet she’s been snacking like crazy while expecting, and the actress took to her blog, The Kind Life, to share some of her favorite treats, sweet, crunchy and refreshing.

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John Salley To Appear At VegFest Michigan (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, March 25th, 2011 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Food & Drink, Videos.

John Salley is scheduled to make an appearance at Michigan’s VegFest taking place this Saturday on March 27 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

He stopped by the studio at WJBK to discuss his career in the NBA and the changes that led him to a vegan lifestyle.

Salley was asked if he missed “the porter steak” every once in awhile.

“I don’t miss a dead animal ever,” Salley said. “I don’t think an animal has to die for me to live”

Salley then went into the details of his family history with diabetes and his own problems with cholesterol that were solved when he stopped eating animal products.

“That porterhouse–you keep eating that dead animal–it’s going to kill you,” said Salley.

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