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Vegetarians & Vegans

Vegetarian food has a much lower impact on our environment. Living a vegetarian lifestyle advocates nonviolence and is part of spiritual fulfillment. A plant-based vegetarian diet is healthier and vegetarians also tend to have a lower body mass index, lower overall cancer rates and lower risk of chronic disease.
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Honnold is a vegetarian, and he does not drink alcohol or use drugs. Between climbs, he runs or hikes to maintain fitness. He is an avid reader with interests in classic literature, environmentalism, and economics, and he describes himself as an anti-religion atheist and a feminist.

"A big thing with like the vegetarian diet, people are like, oh my god how do
you get your protein? how do you stay fit? or whatever and you're like, dude the majority of the world operates on a vegetarian diet because they're poor and it's like they basically are like relatively healthy lean folks"
She went vegan when she was 12 years old. Eilish has said that she doesn’t want to tell others what to do, but she’s also not shy about her veganism, and she’ll speak out when appropriate. She has launched a vegan chocolate, a vegan perfume, partnered with Nike to create vegan kicks bar and convinced Oscar de la Renta to ditch fur.
Proud vegan. She has come out publicly to partake in vegan activism and spoke about climate change on several occasions. Most times, she speaks about being a vegan and promoting good environmental health on her social media platforms.
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."

“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, then we are a sorry lot indeed"

"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
What made you vegan?
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from a living, vibrant creature fighting for life to a violent death. I recognised it, as did my brothers and sisters.
Trivia: He was called ''Leaf Kid''
She is a vegetarian since the age of 9 and explained that "my main reason for being a vegetarian is that I'm an animal lover – definitely not because I love vegetables". She decided to officially become meat-free after watching the PETA documentary Glass Walls.
Page is a longtime vegan who's outspoken about her reasons for the lifestyle, the main one being her core belief in social justice.
"Vegan food is soul food in its truest form."

Erykah Badu, and then-boyfriend Common, participated in the documentary 'Holistic Wellness for the Hip-Hop Generation', which explained the dangers associated with low-quality food consumption. SupaNova Slom (known as 'The Hip-Hop Medicine Man'), the film's producer, is almost like royalty among black vegans, considering his mother is none other than holistic healer Queen Afua. -

"The lifestyle that vegetarians lead automatically draws people's attention to the vitality of the person. My vitality speaks for itself."

Being clear enough to know you want freedom from toxins & poisons is a sense of freedom in itself.
Tobey Maguire has been a vegetarian since 1992 and a vegan since 2009. “I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all,”
She adopted a plant-based diet in 2013. She told the Mirror the following year: “I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding.” She continued: “But I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-round happier person.”
Vegetarian since age 16.

"I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian."
In a 2010 interview, Rodriguez admitted she is “disgusted every time I do have a piece of beef,” and while she hesitated to ban meat from her diet initially, the actress transitioned to vegetarianism shortly thereafter.
She said eating meat was difficult when she was touring because meat-based meals were too heavy late at night after a show. So she started becoming vegetarian and liked it.

She's been vegan since the 1980s: “Twenty years ago I thought: What's the difference between eating a bloody steak and killing my dog, slitting him open and roasting him?"
The actress has been a vegan for 12 years, and says going vegan gave her more energy and clearer skin. "Being vegan was not anything I ever wanted to be. I just really was listening to what my body was telling me," she said to W Magazine.
He became a pescatarian in 2011 and later stopped eating fish, too. He told Rolling Stone that eating meat-free helps him to “clean my mind, body, and soul.”
In 2013, she told Hello!: “I don’t like meat and so most of things that I like are healthy for you.”

In her 1991 book, Forever Fit, she wrote: “I try to avoid foods with a high fat content because they make me sluggish and keep my weight up. Dairy products are not good for us. I weaned myself from whole milk to nonfat milk—if I’m having milk at all. I think cheese is one of the worst things for the body. It doesn’t digest well, and most cheeses are too high in fat and cholesterol.”
He's followed a vegan diet for more than 30 years, he's passionate about the environment, animal rights, and sustainable food.
Portman, who is an advocate for animal rights, has been a vegetarian since childhood. She became a vegan in 2009 after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals.She does not eat animal products or wear fur, feathers, or leather. "All of my shoes are from Target and Stella McCartney," she has said. In 2007, she launched her own brand of vegan footwear.[During her pregnancy in 2011, Portman went off her vegan diet and returned to vegetarianism.
Saldana, once told Shape magazine she wants her, and her kids, to follow a meat-free lifestyle. “We’re starting to move in the direction of becoming a vegetarian family,” she stated.
Kanal went vegan in 2012 after being vegetarian for years.
"I still have plenty of vices, but alcohol isn't one of them," he says. "It's probably just down to sleep and diet. If you travel long haul a lot or don't sleep much, it's not going to last very long, that's for sure. I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time — 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process."
"When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna's book's." - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala

Influenced by Sun Ra to change his lifestyle, including vegetarianism, and started listening to Ravi Shankar records.

"His work 'A Love Supreme' was a testament to the power, glory, love and greatness of God. Coltrane felt we must all make a conscious effort to effect positive change in the world, and that his music was an instrument to create positive thought patterns in the minds of people." - excerpt from johncoltrane.com
He told Men's Fitness, "I have a lot of friends who are vegan. Woody Harrelson was actually one of the original reasons I became vegan, because he's been vegan for, I don't know, 30 years or something. So, with the facts I was gathering, and then just how I was physically feeling, I felt like I had to do something different."
"I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you’d call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products."
He's been outspoken about veganism and he’s currently producing a documentary on the diet, recently invested in a pea protein facility, and co-founded a vegan school in southern California with his wife Suzy Amis Cameron.

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.
Previously vegetarian, she is now vegan and has partnered with PETA to raise awareness against the fur industry.
Ringo Starr credits his vegetarian diet with helping him keep his youthful looks. He's insisted his youthful glow was thanks to “broccoli and blueberries”.

He told Rolling Stone before his 80th birthday: I am a vegetarian, I have broccoli with everything and blueberries every morning. I just do stuff that I feel is good for me.
“In the afternoon, at the table, the three of us would eat with the appetite of famished wolves; not he, he would not eat meat, only a little morsel on Sundays, and then only after being urged by our landlady for a long time. Four potatoes with a suspicion of gravy and a mouthful of vegetables constituted his whole dinner. To our insistence that he make a hearty dinner and eat meat, he would answer, To a human being physical life ought to be a paltry detail; vegetable food is sufficient, all the rest is luxury.”
“Now at least I can look at you in peace. I don’t eat you anymore. That was the time that [Kafka] became a strict vegetarian,” Kafka said to Brod after seeing a fish swimming in an aquarium at the the Berlin Zoo.
Behind that simple statement lies a difficult ethical question, that when we consume animal products, we in fact disavow a part of our nature. In fish, we can still recognize parts of ourselves — spines, pain receptors, endorphins (which relieve pain) and all of the familiar pain responses — and by eating them, we therefore deny important parts of our humanity, Safran says, paraphrasing Kafka.
He switched to the vegan diet in 90’s.

According to CBS News, Prince included the following Mohandas Gandhi quote in his 1999 album Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic: "2 my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being." Gandhi, as you might guess, did not use the numeral "2" in his original quote — that was certainly a specialty of Prince's.

In an interview with The Vegetarian Times in 1997, Prince shared that he hadn't had red meat in about a decade, but that lately he'd been making even bigger changes. "I've always had a preference for all things vegetarian," he said. "But not until recently did I find out how good they were for you (in a physical sense). We don't eat anything with parents. Complete vegans — both of us!"
Kate Winslet practices self-care by eating vegetarian. "Our fridge is always full of spinach, kale, cucumbers. I’m vegetarian and my husband is vegan, so there’s a lot of plant-based focus in our home. My husband turning vegan is relatively recent, so that’s been a really fun education because you have to learn to be a little more inventive with foods," Winslet said.
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."

"Men think it's right to eat animals, because they are led to believe that God sanctions it. This is untrue. No matter in what books it may be written that it is not sinful to slay animals and to eat them, it is more clearly written in the heart of man than in any books that animals are to be pitied and should not be slain any more than human beings. We all know this if we do not choke the voice of our conscience." – Leo Tolstoy, The Pathway of Life: Teaching Love and Wisdom
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”

"I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from God. If there would come a voice from God saying, "I'm against vegetarianism!" I would say, "Well, I am for it!" This is how strongly I feel in this regard." - Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the Preface to Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
Rooney Mara has revealed that she went vegan after an undercover animal abuse video sent her 'down the YouTube rabbit hole'.
“The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.....It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
She's said: "I definitely think it’s because I’m vegan. Eating a vegan diet — it’s just so much healthier — and you avoid a lot of toxins that could age your skin and your body. I really noticed a difference in my skin not too long after switching to fully vegan. And I needed to eat the fruits and vegetables to stay lean. It’s all about vanity, honestly."

"I love the vegan diet because I love carbs. I’ve never really loved animal protein in terms of animal meat. I only ate it because I used to think it was good for me."
She has been vegan since 2008. She launched her new website in 2011 to help people who want to stop eating meat and animal products: Going Vegan with Ellen. Last year, DeGeneres was interviewed by Katie Couric about becoming vegan: "I used to love cheeseburgers and steak, I just did what most people do, I had a disconnect. I decided it's more important to taste a cheeseburger and have a steak or have a turkey sandwich and it's easier and I put it out of my mind ... I read Skinny Bitch first and then I forced myself to watch a documentary called 'Earthlings' and it is inside footage of factory farms and dairy farms and you just see that and you go, "I can't participate in that, I can't be a part of something that is suffering and it's 50 billion animals a year that are killed," and I think we all fool ourselves that there is some happy cow and it's a quick death ... and it's a very disturbing reality ... I do it because I love animals and I saw the reality and I just couldn't do it anymore."
After traveling to India he became a vegetarian.

As a vegetarian, Higgins promoted the health benefits of not eating meat in a 2005 advertising campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA); and has supported their anti-fur stance.[45] She is interested in environmental issues and is involved with the Sierra Club, a grassroots organisation based in California. She has protested against the proposed industrialisation of the Kimberley region of Western Australia and donated the royalties from her 2009 EP More Than This. Since early 2007, Higgins has tried to make her tours carbon neutral, she purchases green energy to power venues, uses hybrid cars where possible and purchases carbon offsets.
The actress has been vegan for over five years, and explains the choice this way: “Every time we sit down to eat, we have a choice. By choosing more meat-free meals, we’re saying ‘yes’ to better health, ‘yes’ to a better environment, and ‘yes’ to better treatment of animals. Being vegan has been so good for me. I’ve never felt better ... I was a meat eater for a long time, and I would have made different choices in my diet if I had known the facts about factory farming. I now feel it’s my moral obligation, and I’m very passionate about educating people on making better, more humane choices when it comes to the food we eat.”
I think animals need all the help they can get, because they have none. They have no rights. They have no protection. And so I think animals need help. And I think animals look to humans for protection, and of course humans lead them into slaughterhouses, which to me is just like an image of leading children into a slaughterhouse. There’s no difference. That level of trust and… But it’s a very cruel world.

Has been vegetarian since the age of eleven. His mother was also.

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."
In an interview with PETA, he claimed his change was due to "touring and its variety of edible crap," and also he felt it was "instinctive somewhat." Furthermore, he also feels the need for respect towards 'mother earth'. In July 2009, Tankian signed a PETA petition against the slaughtering methods of chickens in KFC slaughterhouses.
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
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