Vegetarian Star

Rory Freedman, co-author of the Skinny Bitch book series, spent her Earth Day hiking with her dog and friends and enjoying a vegan meal from the Veggie Grill restaurant in West Hollywood.

“True environmentalists are vegans,” she told MNN.

Freedman has been a vegetarian for 16 years and a vegan for the past five.

When a manure Lagoon burst at the Marks Dairy farm located in upstate New York several years ago, the result of 3 million gallons of liquid manure being forced into the waters killed several hundred thousand bass, pickerel, pike, trout and walleye fish as it depleted the water of Oxygen while depositing toxic ammonia.

The event also forced nearby towns to redirect the source of their water supply.

Meat’s not green and neither is dairy.

Try swapping the 2% for an almond milk instead and put soy cheese on that pizza next time!

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Although McDonald’s in Europe has committed to going cage-free for its eggs by the end of 2012, U.S. McDonald’s show no signs of letting the birds out the wire, citing rising prices for consumers for the more humane and better quality product as the reason.

However, as Wallet Pop points out, with the average cost of a dozen cage-free eggs being only sixty cents more, this would translate to an extra nickel to customers.

According to a poll on WP’s website, over half of people are willing to pay more for cage-free eggs, with 22% willing to pay $0.05, 21% willing to pay $0.25 and 7% willing to pay $1.00.

Of course, we’re not getting into the debate of raising the Canadian bacon pig more ethically (or better yet, doing away with the bacon altogether).

That too should be the next step in making the Egg McMuffin more humane, and keeping up and maybe even getting ahead of our European fast food loving  brothers and sisters.

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Papa Johns

Papa John’s is holding a challenge for its fans to create and name the next specialty pizza.

The contest started April 26 and runs through June 14.

Customers can go online to facebook.com/papajohns and create a specialty 14 inch pie with up to 7 ingredients.

According to Pizza Market Place, there are over 250 suggestions and healthier options are being favored.

For example, one customer suggested a Vegan Hawaiian Barbecue.

“With extra barbecue sauce and double pineapple, this specialty pizza becomes a Hawaiian luau in your mouth. No cheese and no meats makes this a delicious, healthy vegan alternative for your family.”

Papa Johns is one of the more vegetarian friendlier pizza companies for several reasons.

Their website clearly indicates which products contain meat, dairy and poultry.

In addition, most of their cheeses are made with synthetic or microbial enzymes versus animal.

So a vegetarian cheese pizza can be made more ethical by choosing any crust but pan and any pizza except the Tuscan Six Cheese one, both of which contain animal enzymes.

And for a vegan pizza, leave cheese off completely and follow recommendations for the crust.

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Martha Stewart will feature gluten-free, vegan products on her show on Thursday April 29.

Martha will host the founder of NoNuttin, a line of granola bars, snacks and baking ingredients that are dairy free, egg free, nut free and gluten free.

And according to NoNuttin’s website at NoNuttin.com, there are absolutely no animal by-products in the foods, including honey and gelatin.

The Canadian based company sent a sample of their granola bars to the producers of the Martha Stewart show who were impressed with what they tasted and decided a segment about allergy friendly granola bars would work.

Yeah, business deals often go over well when there’s a full stomach of goodness at the table.

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

• Jenna Ushkowitz (24)

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Singer Prince was spotted at San Francisco’s Farmer Brown restaurant eating vegetable jambalaya.

The celebrity stalker, or, uh, the person who spotted him posted a picture of the text that was sent to someone else as the event took place.

“Actually…vegan. He is eatin veggie jambalaya.”

“Wow, that’s so tight. Jealous right now!”

Here’s the picture for the entire conversation.

Prince Farmer Brown restaurant

If Prince got everything according to the menu, the veggie jambalaya comes with portobello mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower and baby carrots.

According to its website, Farmer Brown is a soul food restaurant, with an emphasis in supporting local, African-American farmers that produce organic and sustainable foods.

Apparently, it’s also where all the sexy MFs dine.

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“To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we’re also going to be a lot healthier.”

—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, in an article from CNN on Meatless Mondays.

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Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry

When Bryant Terry, author of Vegan Soul Kitchen and co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, with Anna Lappe became vegetarian, he was one of the most militant people in the world.

“It caused so much stress and conflict in my home,” he said at the Changing Courses: Race, Class, Sustainability and Food lecture at Arizona State University.

He went so far as to bury a whole chicken in his mother’s front yard so she couldn’t cook it.

Wow.

It’s recommended you eat “foods from the ground” to be healthy, but you can never make chicken grow from it.

Terry said that when cooking with oils, put spices like garlic in the oil before heating it.

And don’t expect to substitute tofu for every meat recipe–sometimes you have to get creative.

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