Jaden Smith launches a vegan food truck
for the homeless.
Vegan U.S. women's soccer team co-captain
Alex Morgan celebrates the World Cup victory.
Vegan 'real' dairy ice cream
made from cow's milk launches online.
Miley Cyrus revealed that she won't have kids
until we save the planet.
And plant-based athlete Novak Djokovic
wins the Wimbledon final.
All that and more
on LIVEKINDLY's weekly vegan news.
Jaden Smith has launched a vegan food truck to feed the homeless.
The 21-year-old entrepreneur opened the food truck,
named I Love You Restaurant, in LA’s Skid Row.
The area has one of the largest populations
of homeless people in the United States.
showed a long line of people waiting outside.
Servers handed out vegan bowls of food
filled with dark leafy greens, sweet potato,
black beans, and grains.
People have praised Smith’s venture
and many have already offered to volunteer.
Smith posted on his Instagram about the new venture.
He said, “I Love You Restaurant is a movement
that is all about giving people what they deserve,
healthy, vegan food for free.”
He added, “keep a lookout because this is the first of many.”
Vegan cyclist Abdullah Zeinab has set a new record
and he did it on a diet of mostly hash browns.
Zeinab rode in the Trans Am Bike Race last month.
The race is an annual ultra-cycling event
that takes the rider across the United States,
from Astoria in Oregon to Yorktown in Virginia.
The event is a test of mental and physical endurance.
"I'm only capable of performing at my best
when the desire to keep peddling and sustain that
lies in that exact moment within myself."
At 6,800 kilometers, it’s almost twice as long as this year’s Tour de France.
Matt Gholson of Barn Door Cycling
had a chance to catch up with Zeinab.
Gholson: "You're like, literally
a day ahead?"
Zeinab: "I think so, yeah."
Gholson: "Are you settin' records?"
Zeinab: "I dunno man like I...[inaudible]
I flip between wanting to and then just
being like oh, I just want to make it, ay."
Riders must be completely self-sufficient,
sourcing food and shelter on their own.
Zeinab relied on feeding himself the diner staple hash browns.
He ate more than 100 throughout the race.
The cyclist told LIVEKINDLY,
“once I realized they sold these hash browns at all the diners,
that was my go to.
They sat well in my stomach and provided me with what I needed.”
Zeinab completed the race in a record 16 days, 9 hours, and 56 minutes,
finishing first out of 74 cyclists.
COMING UP - Vegan U.S. Women’s Soccer Co-Captain Alex Morgan
Celebrates World Cup Victory 63 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:50,080 “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t eat meat anymore.
The actor and former Mr. Universe features in the highly anticipated vegan documentary “The Game Changers.”
He co-produced the film, which was directed by Academy Award winner Louie Psihoyos.
Schwarzenegger is known for his muscly, chiseled physique.
Throughout the 1970s, he competed in bodybuilding competitions,
before moving into films, and then politics.
Now the former bodybuilder has stopped eating meat,
he’s using his platform to encourage others to do the same for their health
and the health of the planet.
"I ate a lot of meat.
They show those commercials...
(Ad: "Steak - that's what a man eats.")
...selling that idea that real men eat meat."
(Ad: "Serious Man Food")
"But you've got to understand that's marketing.
That's not based on reality."
Vegan U.S. women’s soccer team co-captain Alex Morgan
has celebrated the World Cup victory.
The team clinched its fourth World Cup title earlier this month
at the Stade de Lyon
defeating the Netherlands in a 2-0 victory.
Morgan celebrated the victory on Instagram.
She posted a picture of herself kissing the World Cup trophy.
“I think I’m in love,” Morgan wrote on her post.
COMING UP - Plant-Based Athlete Novak Djokovic Wins the Wimbledon Final
As well as soccer, Morgan is also passionate about animal rights.
She told Reuters earlier this year that she spends her philanthropic time
and money on supporting children and animals.
She told the international news organization, 91 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:03,020 “it didn’t feel fair to have a dog I adore, and yet eat meat all the time.”
You can now buy “real” vegan dairy ice cream made from milk.
Food tech startup Perfect Day has launched its vegan ice cream online.
It is said to deliver the same flavor and texture as its dairy-based counterpart.
It uses less water, less energy, less land,
and emits significantly fewer greenhouse gases than traditional dairy.
Perfect Day founders, biochemists, and vegans Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi
use flora fermentation to make milk without the cow.
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Unlike cell-based meat, where real meat is grown from animal cells,
the end result here is completely vegan as it biomimics dairy.
Perfect Day also intends to create dairy-free milk, yogurt, and cheese.
Pandya said in a statement,
“what we’re doing here is completely new to the world.”
Vegan musician and activist Miley Cyrus refuses to have children until the planet is saved.
In a recent interview with Elle magazine,
the “Black Mirror” star spoke out about humanity’s exploitation of the earth’s resources.
She also spoke about her feelings on society’s treatment of women.
She said, “we’ve been doing the same thing to the earth that we do to women.
We just take and take and expect it to keep producing. And it’s exhausted.
It can’t produce.”
She added, “until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water,
I’m not bringing in another person to deal with that.” 115 00:06:04,050 --> 00:06:07,080 The pop star is passionate about reproductive rights.
She previously collaborated with Marc Jacobs on a limited edition hoodie
where 100 percent of the proceeds went to Planned Parenthood.
Plant-based tennis star Novak Djokovic has secured his fifth Men’s Single Wimbledon victory.
The gruelling match against Roger Federer, which took five hours,
has been described as one of the most entertaining in tennis history.
"It was probably the most demanding,
mentally most demanding match I was ever part of.
Uh, I had the most physically demanding match against Nadal
in the finals of Australia that went almost 6 hours.
But mentally, this was uh, this was different level."
Djokovic told reporters after the match,
“most of the match I was on the back foot, actually. I was defending.
[Federer] was dictating the play.
I just tried to fight and find a way when it mattered the most.”
The tennis star likes to stay away from labels on his diet,
but he has eaten a plant-based foods for a number of years now.
He said in a recent interview, “I do eat plant-based.
I think that’s one of the reasons why I recover well. I don’t have allergies that I used to have anymore.”
Djokovic will be featured in James Cameron’s upcoming documentary “The Game Changers.”
Europe is in the middle of a plant-based boom.
According to a recent study, 10 percent of Europeans don’t eat any meat.
That amounts to 75 million Europeans who have adopted a predominantly plant-based diet.
In France, sales of vegan food increased 24 percent between 2018 and 2019.
And last year, a study found that 30 percent of Swedish Millennials
are eating more plant-based food for health and sustainability reasons.
This also rings true in Switzerland,
where a quarter of a million people have adopted a vegan diet for both ethical and environmental reasons.
And the UK continues to lead the trend with more than 3.5 million vegans. 134 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:07,120 That’s it for today. How do you feel about consciously living child-free for environmental reasons?
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