Here’s my confession: I’m not any kind of animal rights activist, and yet I love animals. I love eating meat, but I know I wouldn’t want to if I saw how it was made. I know so many livestock animals are treated poorly, but you’ll only take this chicken wing from my cold, dead hand. I know so many animal rights people have their hearts in the right place, and when they start in about one of my most beloved meats, I get upset. So it is with Ginnifer Goodwin.

Ginnifer is trying to destroy Thanksgiving. Instead of eating a juicy turkey with fluffy mashed potatoes, all slathered in gravy, Ginnifer wants us to skip the whole bird-slaughter stuff. She’s become a vegan, and she thinks we should adopt a motherf-cking turkey. Now… here’s the thing. I don’t hate vegans, and I don’t hate Ginnifer for adopting all of the turkeys her little heart desires. But asking me to skip the turkey? On Thanksgiving? Seriously?

Thanksgiving may be weeks away, but Ginnifer Goodwin thinks it’s time to talk turkey. The star of HBO’s Big Love is urging the public to skip the savory poultry this holiday season and adopt a turkey instead.

Goodwin – who went vegan last year – has teamed up with Farm Sanctuary to launch the animal protection organization’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project, which is designed to rescue commercially-raised birds from ending up on the dinner table.

“After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary’s shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms,” says Goodwin.

The organization has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys since 1986 by giving people the opportunity to adopt a bird, who will live at one of Farm Sanctuary’s two shelters in New York and California. For a one-time donation of $25, the turkey sponsors receive a special certificate with a color photo of their rescued bird and fun details about their new friend.

With than 45 million turkeys slaughtered each year for Thanksgiving, Goodwin wants people to consider what they’re eating for the holidays.

“With so many delicious, cruelty-free Thanksgiving dishes available, there is no reason why any living being should be treated like an unfeeling commodity,” says Goodwin. “I encourage everyone to start a new, compassionate Thanksgiving tradition this year and Adopt-A-Turkey, rather than eat one.”

[From Radar]

Fun fact about turkeys: Ben Franklin once wrote that the turkey should be America’s national bird. He wrote in a letter to his daughter: “For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” See, now if the turkey were the national bird, we couldn’t kill it or eat it. I also love the idea that Ben Franklin makes distinctions between birds “of bad moral Character” and more respectable birds.

Another fun fact about turkeys – a turkey once attacked my mother’s car. She was driving down the highway and a wild kamikaze turkey threw itself into my mother’s car, shattered her windshield and she had to be hospitalized. My point? I don’t give a sh-t if they have good moral character, they’re dumb birds and I’m going to eat them.

Here’s Ginnifer at the screening of ‘The September Issue’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 9th. Images thanks to Johnny Louis /WENN.com .

Woody Harrelson is a totally crunchy hippie. He loves his tofu, he loves his solar panels, he loves surfing and Hawaii. It’s just the way he’s built, and I for one love it. Woody seems like a sweetheart (to me, at least, maybe not to the paparazzi). I get the feeling that Woody couldn’t be anything other than a crunchy hippie. It’s in his DNA or something. So it came a slight surprise to me to read Woody’s recent comments about why he turned vegan in his twenties. It wasn’t about hippie credibility or animal rights – the man just wanted to clear up his skin!

WOODY Harrelson didn’t become vegan just to protect animals — there was some vanity involved.

The star tells Maxim that he gave up dairy foods to help clear up his skin. “I was about 24 years old, and I had tons of acne,” he told the magazine. “I met some random girl on a bus who told me to quit dairy and all those symptoms would go away three days later.”

Harrelson added, “By God, she was right.”

[From Page Six]

I love that he took random advice from random girl on a bus. I totally believe that. As far as veganism clearing up a person’s skin, I’ve actually heard that before. I’ve never really seen it in practice though – most of the vegans I’ve known in my life don’t have great skin. Although, to be fair to veganism, I think the bad skin might have had more to do with all of the “I’m too high to wash my face” nonsense. That being said, I’ve known a lot of vegetarians who have had great skin, so maybe there’s something there.

Today’s multiple-choice question: Heather Mills is: A) delusional B) crazy C) a stalker D) a megalomaniacal narcissist E) a horrible mother F) a whiner G) all of the above. If you chose G, congratulations, you’re reading yet another story about Heather Mills’ insanity. Just in the past few months we’ve gotten to hear Heather: complain about her $33.6 million divorce settlement (“we earned it together, I worked my butt off doing the tours and everything”); wishing karmic cancer on her enemies; and making sure everyone knows Paul McCartney’s youngest listens to the Beach Boys, not the Beatles.

Heather’s latest is two-fold. First, it seems Heather might be stalking her ex-husband, Paul and his new girlfriend Nancy Shevell. Sources tell the Daily Mail that Paul is “annoyed” because Heather keeps showing up at events that Paul and Nancy are already attending, and because Paul thinks Heather is “treading on his turf” with the whole vegan-restaurant thing. And don’t even get me started on the vegan-brainwashing Heather’s pulling on Beatrice:

Despite their acrimonious divorce, Heather Mills can’t keep away from Sir Paul McCartney. The former model has infuriated Sir Paul, 67, by jetting to the Hamptons where he is on holiday with his American girlfriend Nancy Shevell, 47.

‘Heather turned up at some big social functions which annoyed Paul,’ says a source.

The former Beatle is also said to be irritated that Heather is ‘treading on his turf’ by wanting to open a vegetarian restaurant in New York while he is promoting ‘Meat-Free Monday’ in the US.

Since her divorce, selfless Heather has become a full-time animal rights campaigner, tireless in her devotion to the cause. She has opened a vegan cafe, VBites, in East Sussex and even turned her five-year-old daughter with Sir Paul into a mini campaigner.

In an interview with ES magazine she explained how Beatrice had tried to convert fellow guests to veganism on a recent holiday to the south of France.

‘Beatrice questions everybody who eats animals,’ Heather revealed.

‘When we were in the south of France, there was a buffet for kids, and by the end of the week no one would sit near us because she would go over and say, “Why are you eating that cow’s bottom?” or “Oh, look at that little shrimp with little eyes.”‘

[From the Daily Mail]

I realize that vegetarianism and veganism can be perfectly healthy and great alternatives to the omnivore lifestyle/choice. And given that both of Beatrice’s parents don’t eat meat, the chances were pretty good that little Bea wasn’t going to ever have a very meaty diet at any point in her life, even if Heather wasn’t so crazy and she and Paul had stayed together. What bothers me is the brainwashing of this child. Does Heather not want Bea to choose veganism or vegetarianism for herself? And does Heather have to take such pride in raising a child who accosts strangers about eating meat? It’s not cute, it’s not sassy, it’s just rude and unpleasant. It pains me to think that Bea is turning into her mother. But Bea is still young. When she rebels against her mom, it’s going to be with steak tartare and Abbey Road.

Heather Mills is shown out in Soho, NY on 7/30/09. Credit: CWNY/Fame Pictures

Hand to God, the fourth boy I ever kissed in my life had the exact same hair as Heather Mills. His name was Aaron, he was a cool skater boy, and he had the same long-in-front, swooped ‘do, and he even bleached it that same straw-yellow/near-white color. He had the same gross-looking roots too. We made out underneath a blanket on a friend’s couch, and I let him go to second base as we listened to dialogue from The Shining. I was fourteen. That’s my excuse. What Heather’s excuse for that hair? It reminds me a little of old-school Annie Lennox, but Heather isn’t cool enough to even hold Annie’s coat.

Anyway, these are photos from Heather’s triumphant return to the spotlight – her new vegan restaurant V-Bites. Last week, we saw Heather Mills in shockingly clean overalls as she pretended to “paint” V-Bites, so I guess all of those months of renovating the place paid off. This place was originally a fish joint. Heather bought it, fired everyone and told them never to come back, ever, and spent several months renovating the place to her specifications. Way to win over the neighborhood, Heather:

Heather Mills went fishing for attention today by risking life and limb to climb up on the roof of her controversial new vegan café – which replaces a popular seafood restaurant.

Despite her famous disability – she has a prosthetic leg after being hit by a motorcycle – she scaled a ladder to stand on top of the art deco building.

The animal rights campaigner provoked outrage among residents in her home town of Hove, East Sussex, when she snapped up the popular Big Fish café for £140,000 only to reveal she was taking fish off the menu.

Ms Mills, who clinched a £24million settlement in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney last year, also laid off the Big Fish staff and told them they would not be re-employed when the renovated café reopened.

Up on the roof of her café … Ms Mills leant against the neon V-Bites sign and addressed the crowd who had turned out for her all-day opening party.

The former glamour model, 41, who has spent months refurbishing the former fish bar, recruited a DJ and Glenn Miller-style band for today’s launch.

Wearing chef’s whites decorated with the V-Bites logo, Ms Mills said: ‘My vision was to create a place for all the community to enjoy. I am very excited about the future and look forward to inviting everybody to Hove Lagoon this summer.’

The restaurant will serve recipes created by Heather, including bangers and mash, chicken-style nut korma, salads, English breakfast, and Pad Thai served with rice noodles.

Ms Mills’s ambitions will not be satisfied with her Hove restaurant. She hopes to turn V-Bites into a chain of outlets to challenge burger bars worldwide.

[From The Daily Mail]

Bless her heart, I suppose. At least she’s not creating more of a ruckus. I think firing all of the original employees must have soothed her for several months. She’s probably due for another mass-firing soon. I really think that’s what she’s going to do from now on – she’ll buy a small business, fire everyone, redo the business, spend millions of dollars, then run that business into the ground. Rinse and repeat. Hopefully at some point in that grueling schedule she can get her roots done.

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