Why These Famous Vegetarians and Vegans Pass on Meat

By U.S. News Staff

Alicia Silverstone and other celebrity vegetarians and vegans shun meat in favor of a plant-based diet

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Actress/author Alicia Silverstone speaks during the 15th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA on April 24, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

Whether because of health benefits or animal rights—or both—many A-listers have adopted a meat-free vegetarian diet or gone a step further to vegan, eschewing leather and other animal products. Here's a sampling of celebrity converts.

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I had a bad acne for 30 years, taking prescription after prescription, nothing could get rid of it, only the VEGAN diet did the job; in 3 days after starting the VEGAN diet, I started to feel the big difference, in one week there was no more acne, I felt a miracle happening in my life.
8 years now, still VEGAN, I feel great, very healthy, and my skin is perfect, I really believe that VEGAN diet can make the impossible possible and cure lot of bad diseases.
When you become VEGAN you start to understand and look at life from a new angle and see hidden things.
I believe that people are free to choose what their food, they can eat what they want.
Think about this: In various parts of the world people eat cats, dogs, horses, camels, rats, mice, birds, turtles, snails, frogs, insects etc., while in another part of the world they consider such behavior disgusting.
People who eat such unusual stuff defend themselves using the same arguments cow's, pigs, chickens, raw fish (sushi) eaters use, now who to believe? Who's right who's wrong? You decide.
I think that VEGAN food is the best and most clean food on earth, more clean than eating a pig, or a snail, a cat, a dog, a cow, a fish or an insect.
Humans deserve the cleanest food and animals deserve a lot better than we cut them in pieces then boil their body parts and drink their water, and then in the morning we drink their body fluids.
You choose your life to live.

Being nice to all is not a bad thing of VA 10:53PM May 21, 2012

Leather is taken from animals that have been slaughtered for reasons other
than to attain leather. Are there some of you who would prefer to waste
the leather?

Cowboy Cal of OR 4:40PM May 09, 2012

Do these people actually believe their vegetarian food is raised without killing animals? Sounds like the celebrities and many of the commenters need to spend a little more time around where their food is actually produced.
Farmers can't let birds and squirrels eat their fruit crop. They can't let rabbits, gophers, deer, etc, etc, etc. eat all the rest of their crops.
Humans and their crops displace and starve billions of animals - does anyone really think anything else?
There is nothing "wrong" or "mean" about fulfilling your omnivorous (if that's a word;-) role in the ecosystem. Having said that - it is of course deplorable how many animals are treated in our food system and how they are fed but there are relatively easy ways to not support that.

Ellie of ID 11:03PM February 22, 2012

Why These Famous Vegetarians and Vegans Pass on Meat

Alicia Silverstone and other celebrity vegetarians and vegans shun meat in favor of a plant-based diet

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