Exciting news for those of you eating vegan in Los Angeles! At your local “vegan” restaurants, a few of your entrées might not be so animal-free.
Trace amounts of animal protein in vegan restaurants? Nooooo, say it ain’t so!
Quarrygirl.com details their testing of specific dishes from seventeen area restaurants. It turns out that TEN had traces of animal protein (you know — eggs, milk, and shellfish) in their food.
Basically, you can say you’re a vegan restaurant even if you’re putting animal products in your food. No biggie.
It’s nice to know that even if you’re trying to please the PETA police by eating vegan or owning a vegan restaurant, someone out there will inevitably try to expose you.
Side note: Conducting this little scientific study to prove that vegan restaurants aren’t really animal-free cost these sweethearts $1,000. Of their own money. Great investment there, guys.
I hesitate to speak ill of one of the few remaining Golden Girls because between Estelle Getty and Bea Arthur, they’re dropping like flies this year (and on top of that it’s Celebrity Death Week, apparently). But Betty White is in possession of an epic flip-flop.
The 87-year-old actress just gave an interview to a Canadian news service in which she explains why she doesn’t trust PETA:
White has been active with animal organizations for more than 40 years. The Denver-based Morris Animal Foundation funds “humane” studies dealing with the health problems of dogs, cats, horses, zoo animals and wild life. “I’ve also been with the Los Angeles Zoo for 41 years. Life is divided in absolute half. Half is my show business work and half is my animal work.”
But she is not an “animal rights activist” - “health and welfare, that’s all I’m interested in” - and she is critical of militant bodies like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
“They play dirty. They not only give misinformation but disinformation . . . . They won’t listen, and it infuriates me. I’m sure they love animals but they should find out the facts.”
She sure is in good company around here.
But what’s that? She once starred in an anti-fur PSA for PETA? And pestered a Vogue editor on PETA’s behalf for having the audacity to wear fur to New York Fashion Week in February 2006?
PETA’s vocal campaigns against the zoos she loves should have been enough of a tip-off that this wasn’t a group she wanted to align herself with, but here’s hoping it maybe took a while before Betty saw the light. (Just as long as she doesn’t walk toward it.)
Even if you know nothing about PETA, you know that they hate fur, they hate people owning fur, and they hate people wearing fur. Or so we thought.
Virginian-Pilot writer Jamesetta Walker wrote about PETA’s request for French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to donate her furs to the less fortunate:
The PETA correspondence said it receives thousands of fur coats from people whose feelings about wearing real fur have changed. Because the animals can’t be brought back, PETA sends the coats to homeless shelters and refugee camps, uses them in educational displays and gives them to wildlife rehabilitators to use as bedding for orphaned animals.
Run that by me again: Homeless people and people in refugee camps are walking around wearing celebrities’ real fur coats?
Really? PETA will let me wear fur so long as they give it to me? Fascinating.
Where is the refugee sign-up sheet? I’d like some celebrity fur hand-me-downs to wear. (Mental note: Stay in refugee camp away from PETA paint throwers.)
How can you tell someone her fur coat is morally wrong and then give it to someone else, especially when nonanimal clothes come a dime a dozen?
And can you imagine what you’d look like — if you were to become homeless — standing on the street with a “Will Work for Food” sign but you’re wearing Mimi’s rigged fur coat?
I don’t think I have anything to add. Except that PETA = fail.
Apparently it’s a Deceiver Loves (AKA Hates) PETA kind of week.
With all the slander PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk throws at meat eaters and fur lovers, I was a little surprised to read Page Six this morning. In her new book, Ingrid says:
There was nothing I loved more than my fur jacket. In my 20s, I was eating my way through the animal kingdom, and what I didn’t eat I wore.
We all know PETA loves to deceive, but this is telling me that the woman who said she would still be against animal research even if it resulted in a cure for AIDS once wore fur?
Shocking.
I love it. And this picture.
Yesterday President Obama was giving an interview with some guy from CNBC, and suddenly the tedium was broken by this:
So much for an end to unilateral action against those who try to attack us! It’s good to know that in the midst of this economic crisissss and the unrest in Iran, he can still kick back and enjoy himself with a dead bug.
If you’re not mourning the senseless death of this innocent creature at the hands of the most powerful man in the world, Ingrid Newkirk and her nutty pals would like a word with you. According to TMZ:
PETA is finally going after President Barack Obama for delivering capital punishment to a housefly on the White House grounds yesterday — a death that was caught on tape.
When asked for comment, here’s the statement PETA released:
“He isn’t the Buddha, he’s a human being and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.”
Yeah, I don’t know what that means either. But I wonder what the Buddha would think about tricking people into giving up unwanted pets under the ruse that you’re going to find them new homes, and then killing them and leaving them in a dumpster behind the Piggly Wiggly?
Maybe PETA just wanted to do something nice for the flies.
Update: Turns out the White House is swarming with flies. Hey, they know what they like.
A Hills post not about Heidi and Spencer! Rejoice!
If you watch The Hills, you know that since Lauren Conrad up and floated away, the producers needed a new blonde to fill the void. And that blonde is Kristin Cavallari.
Having never watched Laguna Beach, I didn’t know jack about Kristin Cav until the teasers for Season 6 of The Hills started airing, noting her arrival with the tagline “The Bitch Is Back.” Curious, I did some googling.
I learned she’s done some print and video ads for PETA, because she would never wear fur because it might mean hurting the adorable white bunny she’s holding.
But she’s also one of the faces of Until There’s A Cure, an HIV/AIDS awareness charity. Here’s her PSA. To quote:
Why Does Kristin Cavallari Wear The Bracelet?
She wears it to raise desperately needed funds for HIV/AIDS care services, education and vaccine development. Over half a million people have chosen to wear The Bracelet. What about you?
So how do you think they develop vaccines? Hint: Bad news for little white bunnies.
Obligatory bonus footage of Kristin carrying a $600 leather bag, wearing a $900 leather jacket, teetering on her favorite $700 leather heels, blah blah blah. You know the drill.
A leader of a free nation should know you don’t reason with terrorists. But for some reason French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy tried to play nice with PETA by promising not to wear fur or leather unless the animals were raised for food purposes:
“I do not wear, buy or own fur or animal skin other than leather or skin of animals raised for feeding purposes. I am not a vegetarian and I don’t find it illogical to wear skins of animals whose meat is also eaten.” She adds: “I would gladly consider giving away sable, fox and other fur coats — if I owned any.”
PETA slobbered all over themselves sending her a pair of vegan shoes, but they seem to be willing to overlook Bruni-Sarkozy’s big fat bad memory.
Don’t you love her bag here? It’s Dior. It’s also crocodile. She must love croc because she has another one just like it. She has quite the silk collection too, including a silk georgette Dior dress she wore to a British state dinner last year and a whole host of silk tops and Hermès scarves she wore when the Obamas were visiting (doesn’t anyone think of the silkworms?).
Now I know the French eat a lot of crazy things, but crocodile and silkworms? Mon oeil.
Ahhh, how different (read: better) our lives would be without the faux-celeb stars of The Hills running around.
According to People, Audrina Patridge recently finished shooting a commercial for the Carl’s Jr. Teriyaki Six Dollar Burger. Audrina said of the shoot:
I had an absolute blast shooting. It was my first experience shooting a spot with food, and when I pulled up, I was literally salivating looking at all the rows and rows of perfect burgers waiting for me!
She doesn’t claim to be a vegetarian, but posing in a PETA adoption ad generally means you are against killing animals. Especially when the ad says “Buying animals means killing animals.”
But don’t worry, if the animal only costs six bucks (in teriyaki burger form of course) it won’t be a problem.
We’re thrilled that Audrina has joined Padma and Paris in the burger commercial club. They’re just so…juicy.
The ad and burgers launch June 24th. I know I’ll be in line, six bucks in hand.
I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here (yes, I’ve been watching trash) makes fools out of D-list celebrities living in the jungle. But the show already has an added bonus: making a fool out of Deceiver Madness Champion PETA!
Basketball star (like a million freaking years ago) and PETA activist John Salley professed his commitment to veganism even before entering the jungle.
Yeah, I’m a Vegan and part of what I do is promote lifestyles, healthy lifestyles…the best thing about this is they’re going to put me in a jungle around a lot of green foliage and I can show you what the raw diet will do for your body.
Nice sentiment, Mr. Salley. Eating jungle leaves sounds delicious.
During the first food challenge contestants were forced to eat weird jungle-ish things (not foliage). Salley won both rounds for the boys team by eating a rat’s tail (mmm chewy) and three scorpions (spicy?).
In his PETA “Veggie Testimonial,” he touts that being a vegetarian is:
“the best damn way to eat – period”
Last I checked rats and scorpions were animals too (and they definitely have feelings). Don’t worry, John. By the end of this show (that’s on for somewhere around 100 hours a week) no one will remember that you were a vegan. PETA already forgot.
Pretenders screech-whore Chrissie Hynde is a big PETA backer. She can’t stand fur. Hates the rodeo. Even complains about the Running of the Bulls. (I always thought a half-ton side of beef could pretty much take care of itself…)
So I did a momentary WTF double-take yesterday when I saw that Hynde and her group will be doing an August 19 concert this summer — at the Minnesota Zoo.
PETA and its whole world of bunny huggers don’t like zoos. (Oops: I meant to say that they “don’t like institutionalized imprisonment of our wild animal friends.”) And it’s not like Chrissie is unaware of this fact. Check out this snippet from a 2004 interview she gave to the Australian activist group “Animal Liberation”:
June: “I despise zoos and circuses with animals. What about you Chrissie?”
Chrissie: “The animals have got to be free.”
Oh, sure … the animals have got to be free. But the concert tickets? Not so much. The Star-Tribune notes:
The concert is commanding the highest zoo ticket price ever — $68. The previous high was $54 for Hootie and the Blowfish in 2008.
$68 to hear a washed-up PETA-worshiping rock band — at a zoo? For that kind of money, Chrissie Hynde had better personally meet me backstage draped in mink, riding a rodeo bull, and drinking the blood of an endangered marsupial.
Of course, for the right amount of money, perhaps her prohibition against supporting zoos is, shall we say, “flexible”? So I wouldn’t put the mink coat past her.
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