Hot Vegetarian Celebrities

"Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan."

"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."

"People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory."

""Nobody can come up with a good argument for eating animals - nobody can. People as some kind of a joke say, well, 'It's tasty', but it's only tasty once you garnish it and you put salt and pepper, and you cook it, and you have to do 300 things to it to disguise its true taste. If you put garnishes on a chair or fabric, it would probably taste quite nice."

"If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat."
-- Kim Basinger

"I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before [going vegetarian] that you loved-like turkey slices-they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find."

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

"I grew up in cattle country--that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. "

"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."
- Sassy (USA) - March, 1996

"In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (...)I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever! (...) I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet - will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring." - Carl Lewis, Excerpt from Carl Lewis' introduction to Very Vegetarian, by Jannequin Bennett

"Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place."

"I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner"

"An act of violence against nature should be judged as severely as that against society or another person. The turning over of a stone, the unnecessary felling of a tree, or the slaughter of an animal is a crime to be weighed in judgement against the wants and needs of the person and the values of his society."

"I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied a lot about African culture and health and the best way to take care of the body. %u2026 I really wanted to be healthy. I found out a lot about the body and what [drugs] they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn't crave [meat and dairy products] anymore."

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men."

"I`ve been a vegetarian for years and years. I`m not judgemental about others who aren`t, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

"I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it."

"I never met a cow I didn`t like." - one of 10 reasons Jennie names for being a vegetarian.

"I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian."

"I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it."

" I've been a vegetarian for 14 years now, and a lot of the time I avoid going to restaurants. I eat at home. Actually, I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy-no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there%u2026. It's never really been that hard for me. 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. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that%u2026. I don't judge people who eat meat-that's not for me to say-but the whole thing just sort of bums me out."

"I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased."

"I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food."

"For your best orgasm ever, go vegetarian." - From her website

"Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health."

"I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian. Everything became clear."

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# Sir Isaac Newton

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# Elvis Costello

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# Davey Havok (AFI)

# Moby

# Siouxsie Sioux

# Joe Jackson

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# Kate Bush

# Chrissie Hynde

# Brad Pitt

# Alec Baldwin

# Pamela Anderson

# Steve Martin

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# Desmond Howard

# Edwin Moses

# Martina Navratilova

# Kathy Johnson
(1980 Gymnast of Year)
# Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder)

# Alicia Silverstone

# Eric Stolz

# Jennie Garth

# Liv Tyler

# Dennis Weaver

# Michael J. Fox

# Jerry Seinfeld

# Brigitte Bardot

# Dustin Hoffman

# Virginia Madsen

# Anthony Perkins

# Woody Harrelson

# David Duchovny

# Richard Gere

# Natalie Portman

# Ricki Lake

# Ted Danson

# William Shatner

# Tommy LaRussa

# Anthony Peeler (NBA)

# Bill Walton (NBA)

# Robert Parish (NBA)

# Billie Jean King

# Joe Namath

# Peter Buck (REM)

# Martin Gore (Depeche)

# Fiona Apple

# Sinead O'Connor

# Boy George

# Steve Howe (Yes)

# Scott Adams (Dilbert)

# Clive Barker

# Berke Breathed
(Bloom County comic strip)

# Richard Bach

# Henry Heimlich M.D.

# Donnie LaLonde
(Light Heavyweight Champ)

# Dave Scott
(5x Ironman Triathlon winner)

# Killer Kowalski

# Jack LaLanne

# k.d. Lang

# Richard Thompson

# Lene Lovich

# Morrissey

# Annie Lennox

# Julian Cope

# Lenny Kravitz

# Prince (the symbol guy)

# Captain Sensible

# James (whole band)

# Belinda Carlisle

# Emmylou Harris

# Joaquin Phoenix

# River Phoenix

# Candice Bergen

# Larry Hagman

# Charlotte Ross

# Olivia Newton John

# Christy Turlington

# Vanessa Williams

# Rosanna Arquette

# Kevin Eubanks (Leno)

# Kim Basinger

# Orlando Bloom

# Johnny Marr (Smiths)

# Meatloaf (?yes!)

# Natalie Merchant

# Wendy O' Williams

# Shania Twain

# Jeff Beck

# John Lennon
& Yoko Ono

# Paul McCartney
& Linda McCartney

# Ringo Starr
& Barbara Bach

# Princess Diana

# Todd Oldham
(fashion designer)

# Leonard Cohen

# Steven Jobs (Apple)

# Chelsea Clinton

# Ziggy Marley

# Kraftwerk (whole band)

# Sarah McLachlan

# Eddie Vedder

# Robert Smith (Cure)

# KRS-One

# Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)

# Grace Slick

# Steve Vai

# Paula Cole

# Phil Collen (Def Leppard)

# Rick Savage (Def Leppard)

# Bob Barker
(The Price is Right)

# Tobey Maguire

# Rhea Perlman (Cheers)

# Sara Gilbert

# Lisa Rinna (Melrose)

# Captain & Tennille

# Consolidated (the band)

# Don McLean
(wrote "American Pie" song)

# Michael Bolton

# Lisa Loeb

# Marina Sirtis (Star Trek)

# Mary Tyler Moore

# Marilu Henner

# Meredith Baxter

# Peter Cushing

# Reese Witherspoon

# Don Imus

# Peter Bogdanovich

# Anthony Robbins
(Motivational Coach)

# Cesar Chavez
(United Farm Workers)

# Cassandra Peterson
(the "Elvira" character)

# Thora Birch
(Ghost World creator)

# Susannah Hoffs
(from The Bangles)

# Carter Beauford (DMB)

# Boyd Tinsley (DMB)

# Daniel Johns (Silverchair)

# Bryan Adams

# Andre 3000 (OutKast)

# Steve Morse (Deep Purple)

# Lisa Simpson & Apu

# "Weird" Al Yankovic

# Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

# Johnny Rotten

# The Roots (whole band)

# Minor Threat (whole band)

# George Harrison

# Jon Anderson (Yes)

# Larry Mullen (U2)

# Carl Lewis
(Winner of 17 Gold Medals)

# Erykah Badu

# Bonnie Hunt

# Lindsay Wagner
(The Bionic Woman)

# Keenan Ivory Wayans

# Linda Blair (Exorcist)

# Drew Barrymore

# Matt Groening
(creator of The Simpsons)

# Susan Powter

# Traci Bingham (baywatch)

# Milo Ventimiglia [GG]

# Mike Farrell

# RZA [Wu Tang]

# Raekwon [Wu Tang]

# Ghostface [WT]

# Prodigy [Mobb Deep]

# Russell Simmons

# Spice Williams (stuntman)

# Marv Levy (Buffalo Bills)

# Gillian Anderson (X-Files)

# Demi Moore

# Betty White (Golden Girls)

# Rue McClanahan
(Golden Girls)

# Jane Goodall

# Dwight Yoakum

# Naomi Watts

# Michael Tsarion

# Don Piraro
(created Bizarro cartoon)