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"Carrie Underwood: A Biography"

A book detailing Carrie Underwood‘s rise to fame, Carrie Underwood: A Biography, has been published by Greenwood Publishing.

The author of the biography, Vernell Hackett, is of course impressed with Carrie’s country music stardom, but what touched her the most was her animal activism, especially given the fact she too is interested in helping animals.

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Faux meat mixes are fun to play with in the kitchen. You get to make a patty as big or small as you want and shape it to desired thickness. And who can beat an easier mix than one that requires you only add water?

Harmony Valley Vegetarian Burger and Sausage Mixes are soy based, vegan certified, kosher certified, high in protein and contain 0 grams of cholesterol and trans fat.

We’re giving away 5 pairs of faux burger and faux sausage mixes. Think of it as matching his and hers gifts, only these fauxs are a lot classier than the cubic zirconia he tried to pull off for an anniversary gift instead of that eco-friendly mined rock she asked for.

To enter to win one of the 5 sets of faux burger and faux sausage mixes, you may do the following:

• For 1 chance to win, leave a comment on this post saying why you want Harmony Valley Vegetarian Burger and Vegetarian Sausage mixes.

• For 2 chances to win, leave a comment on this post saying why you want Harmony Valley Vegetarian Burger and Vegetarian Sausage mixes AND RT this post on Twitter (e.g. RT@vegetarianstar Harmony Valley Vegetarian Burger and Sausage Mix). If you’re Re-Tweeting this post, you must also include your Twitter handler in the comment. If you’re Re-Tweeting this post and you also want to win the faux mixes, you must leave a comment too.

Contest ends on Tuesday, October 5th at midnight Pacific Time. Winners will be chosen at random and notified by October 11th.

Launched in 2009, Harmony Valley is based in Fort Collins, Colorado and their mixes are currently served in the hot bar/deli section of Whole Foods Markets in the Rocky Mountain area. The mixes are produced in an energy efficient facility that utilizes wind power. For more information and recipes, visit HarmonyValleyFoods.com.

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Russell Simmons has gone  from founding a hip hop music label to creating an urban clothing line to now a reality TV show featuring the ins and outs of his daily life.

Running Russell Simmons premiers November 2nd on the Oxygen channel and chronicles Russell’s life and his staff, including one of his closest assistants Simone Reyes.

Reyes, like Russell, is a vegan and animal rights activist who’s used her publicity to draw attention to various causes, whether that’d be Tweeting about the delicious meal of tempeh hash, vegan frittata, soy buttermilk biscuits and tofu scramble from Sacred Chow restaurant to getting the message out about lost animals and yes, commenting on Lady Gaga‘s meat outfit. Read what Reyes had to say about it and see a sneak premier of Running Russell Simmons below.

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Kevin Bacon is edible. Even for the vegetarians. Even for the kosher vegetarians.

Dave Lefkow is one of the faux pork powers behind Bacon Salt, an imitation bacon flavor from J & D Foods, which has infused bacon flavor in mayonnaise, popcorn and other foods. Lefkow has created a bust of Kevin Bacon from the bits of Bacon Salt and the creation is being auctioned off on ebay to raise money for Ashley’s Team, a charity for children with cancer.

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

• Kate Winslet (35)

Photo: PR Photos

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Nellie McKay has an extensive interview with Broadway World where she spills her heart on issues like animal rights and global warming, vegan food, favorite celebrities and that never going away topic of Lady Gaga‘s meat dress.

A song on her latest CD, Home Sweet Mobile Home, titled “Unknown Reggae,” is about animals being consumed for meat.

“For animal rights, it would be “Unknown Reggae” on the new record. It is about the meat, in particular. But, animal products – including dairy and eggs, although I know it is difficult to get off of them – that’s the quickest way to end global warming. It really has a terrible impact on the earth, eating higher up on the food chain like that. If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains – the things closer to the earth – it’s a lot better for the earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.”

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Growing up in her Italian family, actress Lea Michele‘s meals must have consisted of lots of formaggio, but no carne.

Even though today she’s pretty much vegan, the Glee star also confesses she’s never eaten a piece of red meat in her life. Michele, who was scheduled to get a glimpse of Stella McCartney‘s vegetarian fashions in Paris, France recently, said, “I do a lot of work with PETA. I’m mostly vegan and I’ve never eaten red meat, so a brand that is beautiful without harming animals is my idea of fashion-forward.”

You could say she already had a significant lighter footprint before she gave up other animal products. While it’s ideal to give up all meat, just giving up red meat can have a major beneficial impact on the environment.

Good.is recently highlighted a graph included in a paper by Weber and Mathews of Carnegie Mellon University, which lists the impact of various forms of food and beverage on the environment, from the production to delivery to retail end. From the graph below, you can see that red meat produces more carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane emissions.

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Delaware Republican candidate for Senate Christine O’Donnell has made some controversial headlines in the news for her comments about topics such as sex, masturbation and now meat. Thankfully, the last term has never been grouped with the first two.

O’Donnell, who now is a conservative Christian, has an interview from 1999 with Bill Maher where she discusses the many different religions she tried before committing to Christianity. The only thing that kept O’Donnell from becoming Hare Krishna was the fact she didn’t want to become vegetarian.

Some transcript notes from the interview:

O’Donnell: “I was dabbling into every other kind of religion before I became a Christian.”

Maher: “You were a witch!”

O’Donnell: “I was! I was!”

Maher: “You were.”

O’Donnell: “I was dabbling in witchcraft. I’ve dabbled in Buddhism. I wanted to become a Hare Krishna but I didn’t want to become a vegetarian. And that is honestly the reason why – because I’m Italian, I love meatballs.”

Maher: “Boy, are you spiritual

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