Archive for the 'famous vegetarians' Category

PETA’s banned Super Bowl Advertisement

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Apparently this ad by PETA was rejected from being aired during the Super Bowl on account of being too risque. I’m not sure if I approve of PETA spending heaps of donations to air an ad during the Super Bowl, but a nice advertisement none the less. Vegans taste better

ICBTDEM! #5: The Black Kids

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I thought a little snippet in the latest peta2 E-mailout tied in quite nicely with charmedquark’s last post:
Win Signed Black Kids Stuff!
[peta2] catch up with Owen from Black Kids to chat about music and why he went vegan. Check out the video, and enter to [...]

ICBTDEM! #4: Terence Stamp

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Following the deviation from music in the ICBTDEM post about Oprah, I thought I would express my shock in finding out about Terence Stamp being vegan.
If the picture (from “Haunted Mansion”) on the left isn’t immediately recognisable, think “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” – in the film version, Stamp plays the drag queen turned transsexual, [...]

ICBTDEM! #3: Oprah..?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

For three weeks, everybody*s favourite day-time talkshow host, Oprah Winfrey is on what appears to be a caffeine-, gluten-, sugar- and alcohol-free vegan diet, as part of a 21-day spiritual cleanse:

“[T]aking your time, making healthy choices and chewing slowly—being conscious of every bite and not scarfing down a meal and then thinking about the next [...]

ICBTDEM! #2: Conor Oberst

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

By “weekly”, I didn’t actually mean “spontaneously, or on a schedule of whenever the fuck I can be bothered” – but internet access in my house has been non-existent (I came home and someone had buttraeped my router). Plus I’ve been having trouble with file hosting websites so you can just find and download the [...]

I-Can’t-Believe-They-Don’t-Eat-Meat! #1: Fiona Apple

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

First up: Fiona Apple
PeTA may use celebrity culture in the hopes of wooing the impressionable masses, which I can sort of see the value in, but it is a bit of a double-edged sword (who’s going to take Steve-O srsly?)
I’m not going to insult anybody’s intelligence or preach to the (sadly minority of) thinking [...]