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The UAE s vegan community is disappointed by what they deem as false advertising after Starbucks launched an expanded selection of plant-based offerings last week.
This includes two sandwiches made using Beyond Beef, a vegan meat substitute, both of which include either cheese or labneh.
The term plant-based is more commonly used to describe vegan food, rather than anything containing animal products, and so there was confusion over the inclusion of dairy.
Why not make sure vegans can enjoy the new food launch, so that the brand is more socially inclusive?
Ananda Shakespeare, founder of Dubai Vegan Days Seriously?! Take a Beyond Meat product and add cheese to it! wrote one user on the Facebook group Vegans take Dubai.
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American actress Betty White, who was born in 1922, has had a career in television longer than anyone else, having spent 80 years appearing on the small screen.
The Golden Girls star marks her 99th birthday on Sunday, which she will spend in lockdown in her Los Angeles-area home. What am I doing for my birthday? Running a mile each morning has been curtailed by Covid-19, so I am working on getting
The Pet Set re-released, and feeding the two ducks who come to visit me every day, White told
Entertainment Tonight. The Golden Girls, clockwise from top left, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made some changes to the way films are being shortlisted for the International Feature Film category (formerly named the Best Foreign Language Film) in the 93rd Academy Awards.
This is
owing to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
What happens usually is that the main committee of volunteers from the Academy choose their seven picks, then a smaller International Film Executive Committee adds three more titles – generally referred to as saves –
to create a shortlist of 10 films.
However, in 2021, the main committee will complete all of the work in phase one of the voting, this time creating an expanded shortlist of 15 choices.
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American singer and actress Selena Gomez will be whipping up adobo with celebrity Filipino-American chef Jordan Andino in season two of her HBO Max show
Selena + Chef.
Andino, who owns Filipino taqueria Flip Sigi in New York, shows Gomez how to make the Philippines staple, which can involve meat, seafood or vegetables marinated in vinegar and soy sauce.
In a trailer for the season, Gomez shows off her plate of saucy adobo with rice to Andino s Filipina grandmother via video chat. How do you think it looks? Gomez asks. It s OK, comes the reply, which is met with laughter from Gomez and her guests.