05.03.2010
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Celebrity vegans
Being vegan - eschewing all animal products - is a pretty hard slog. But you can't deny that it's good for the environment, and good for our bodies, too. A slew of vegan restaurants and bakeries have appeared in cities from New York to Sydney, and celebs are taking up the cause, too.
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi recently made the switch to veganism – and even served vegan fare at their wedding. -
“For most of my life I naively lived on cheeseburgers, macaroni and cheese, and chicken nuggets; a family dinner always meant steak,” Ginnifer told Oprah.com. “Then one day a year and a half ago, it hit me over the head while I was making a hearty breakfast that it wasn’t, in the grand scheme of earthly things, intended for me.” -
Natalie Portman became a vegan after reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s controversial book Eating Animals. Prior to this, she was a vegetarian. -
Joaquin Phoenix comes from a family of vegan activists. His sister, Liberty, owns an eco-store in Florida. The one time Joaquin ate pizza, he allegedly threw up for two days straight. -
“I will likely keep this up for a long time. I don’t crave any other foods anymore. Anything processed just doesn’t seem real. I may as well eat cardboard if it has the same nutritional value," says Jason Mraz of his vegan lifestyle. -
"I've been a vegan for about 15 years. I went to a pretty liberal high school, and we watched Diet for a New America [a 1987 exposé on how food choices affect health and the environment]. And I just stopped eating and wearing animal products after that.," says Bones star Emily Deschanel. -
It’s unconfirmed whether Alyssa Milano is a vegan or not, but most signs point to yes. She recently starred in a PETA commercial where she was dressed in lettuce leaves only. -
"I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but belief is like laying in the dark with someone and telling them you love them and hearing nothing back. So I've never had the confidence to get on a soapbox and tell someone else what to do," says committed vegan Casey Affleck. -
"I realised I want to live till I’m 120. There’s a lifestyle that I am now happily creating that can, as best as is possible, prevent most forms of cancer and other diseases," says Alanis Morrissette. -
"Once I became vegan, my nails were stronger, my skin was glowing, I lost a lot of weight," says Alicia Silverstone. She's so committed to her vegan lifestyle that she wrote a vegan cookbook, The Kind Diet.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi recently made the switch to veganism – and even served vegan fare at their wedding.
