Hynde’s New Vegan Restaurant

Musician Chrissie Hynde of the rock group, The Pretenders, is planning to expand her vegan-restaurant empire into the Big Apple—at the site of Ground Zero’s Freedom Tower. “There’s been so much horrific blood and guts and violence there that it’d be fitting to open a cool restaurant where no mangled, burnt bodies are on the menu,” Hynde said to PETA’s Senior Vice President, Dan Mathews.” After her recent success with Vegeterrannean in Akron, Ohio, Hynde aims for the bigger picture, possibly expanding into both New York City and Las Vegas in hopes of spreading the cruelty-free word—and plumping up the Apple, vegan style.