Famous vegans
How many vegan celebs are there? The ones I know of are:
- Alicia Silverstone
- Daniel Johns (Silverchair)
I think Drew Barrymore was, but now she is an omnivore.
Who else is out there?
I think it is important because they are role models for people and set an example for society. If more celebrities were vegan then maybe more people would follow...
Also in Australia:
Peter Brock (Racing driver)
Greg Chappell (Cricketer)
Yes, it's sad about Drew Barrymore. As I said in an earlier post about Raw Food/ Demi Moore,Drew said she changed back to being a meat-eater because she wanted to "lose weight".
Here's a good list of vegans/vegetarians who are "famous".
http://www.famousveggie.com/peoplenew.cfm
Isn't Gillian Anderson vegan ? Mushroom from massive attack ? Pat reeves, powerlifter most definately is. So is poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
Hurray! He's great isn't he?Benjamin Zephaniah
Have you got kd lang? There are various lists around e.g. http://www.ivu.org/hkvegan/gb/famous.html but they tend to go out of date fairly quickly as not all celebs are as committed as, say, Benjamin Zephaniah.
Any uk people who don't know of bz, check out www.benjaminzephaniah.com . Interesting that the honours system is to be reworded, bz having refused an obe last year. Click here
benjamin zephaniah is cool. i've got his 'little book of vegan poems' which somebody bought me.
i believe woody harrelson is vegan also.
"weird" al
Yes I so admire Benjamin Zephaniah; he came to Australia recently and although I didn't see him as he didn't come up to Queensland, he was interviewed on the tv around Xmas time. He declaimed very movingly his poem about turkeys, saying in effect, they'd like to celebrate Christmas too! I love him.
jenny garth (90210)
Apple ceo Steve Jobs is vegan to. On that note, I'm looking to get an ipod or mini ipod, if anyone has any good or bad experiences with them, please pm me.
i use a Mac at work and it's *rubbish* so it's kind of put me off buying any other Apple products LOL
also i heard that the iPod batteries weren't replaceable, so that once they'd reached the end of their life you had to chuck it out and buy a whole new iPod - how wasteful is that?!!! i think they said they were going to change that but do check before you buy one won't you!
Orlando Bloom, Russel Simmons, are for sure vegans, Toby McGuire is veg or vegan, he is thre one who plays spider man.
All together, there are pver 100/200 veggies/vegans of celebrities out there. Though vegan means they are more commited, unless they are actually veggie but call themselves vegan. As for being vegan you need the compassion and ethics, cannot just have them be a phase. http://www.happycow.net also has a list of famous vegetarians and vegans.
I read someplace that the following people were vegetarian (not sure which, if any, are vegan)...I'm not sure how accurate this is and I can't remember where I got the list from...I made it to put on my website a couple of years ago.
Jeff Ament
Jon Anderson
Fiona Apple
Erykah Badu
Joan Baez
Beastie Boys
Jeff Beck
Brandy
Kate Bush
Belinda Carlisle
Paula Cole
Bob Dylan
Melissa Etheridge
Peter Gabriel
Kirk Hammett
Steve Howe
Chrissie Hynde
Billy Idol
Incubus
Joan Jett
Howard Jones
Anthony Kiedis
Lenny Kravitz
Bob Marley
Paul McCartney
Meatloaf
Moby
Alanis Morissette
Steve Morse
Steve Perry
Prince
Rage Against the Machine
Nick Rhodes
Johnny Rotten
Siouxsie Sioux
Skinny Puppy
Grace Slick
Ringo Starr
Steve Vai
Eddie Vedder
"Weird" Al Yankovic
the Zappa's
Paul McCartney is definitely vegan. Maybe moby as well, as he is also into animal rights. Not ocmpletely sure about the others though...
yeah...me either...well, I am pretty sure that Jon Anderson (singer for YES) is, Kate Bush is very likely as well...I might have to do some research
here is another link
http://www.ivu.org/people/music/
I'm not sure Paul McCartney is vegan, veggie yes. His son James is vegan.
Juliette Lewis is vegan
I forget the actor's name, but my g/f watches the soap opera "All My Children" and apparently the guy who plays the character "Phil" is vegan. A tall fella with a chiseled face and as my g/f says, has the same feathered hair from the 80's. Heh.
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
[QUOTE=ConsciousCuisine]Yes, it's sad about Drew Barrymore. As I said in an earlier post about Raw Food/ Demi Moore,Drew said she changed back to being a meat-eater because she wanted to "lose weight".
This leads me to ask what might be a dumb question, but do you guys know any vegans that are overweight?
yes! one of the members of our local vegan group is quite large(!) actually, not sure of the reasons....
Later Shir Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, First Home minster of India (famous Freedom Fighter)
Smt. Maneka Gandhi W/o Late Shri Sanjay Gandhi ,India
( Eminent leader plus Animal Welfarist) "
Founder of "Peoples for Animals"
She is daughter in law of ex-prime minister of Mrs.Indira Gandhi( Daughter of Jawahar lal Nehru)
She raised her son Mr.Varun Gandhi on Vegan diet.
I watch All My Children, all the time, I can't figure out who you are talking about. MY mom has been watching way onger than me so, I'll ask her when she gets hme from work.negavert
yes iPod batteries are replaceable. but you have to have some kind of special tool to open them up. so in order to replace the battery you'll usually need to go to an Apple Store or call around to different computer/electronics places and ask them if they can change the battery for you. i have a feeling that was apples way of making people spend a little bit more on their beloved iPods.i use a Mac at work and it's *rubbish* so it's kind of put me off buying any other Apple products LOL
also i heard that the iPod batteries weren't replaceable, so that once they'd reached the end of their life you had to chuck it out and buy a whole new iPod - how wasteful is that?!!! i think they said they were going to change that but do check before you buy one won't you!
i think iPods rock. i am a Mac person (although I really don't hate PC's since i'm familiar with them too), but i don't think that has any bearing. they're kind of expensive, but as someone said a newer cheaper smaller one with more storage space (i think 20 gigs) is now available. so i'd highly recomend it. the iPod mini's are cool, but they're batteries don't last as long and i think the most space they have on their hard drives are may 5 gigs.
Geoff Rowley - professional skateboarder
This leads me to ask what might be a dumb question, but do you guys know any vegans that are overweight?[/QUOTE]
I know fat vegans, fluffy vegans, emaciated vegans, obese vegans, muscular vegans, fit vegans, lithe vegans, and vegans with "yoga bodies".
Hmm...actually it might be from Guiding Light. She watches both of them all the time, and I never get the characters straight as I don't pay attention to it. I could just ask her I suppose...
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
"fat vegans, skinny vegans, even vegans with chicken pox, love tofu dogs..."I know fat vegans, fluffy vegans, emaciated vegans, obese vegans, muscular vegans, fit vegans, lithe vegans, and vegans with "yoga bodies".
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
I know fat vegans, fluffy vegans, emaciated vegans, obese vegans, muscular vegans, fit vegans, lithe vegans, and vegans with "yoga bodies".
"fat vegans, skinny vegans, even vegans with chicken pox, love tofu dogs..."
I'm so jealous!! I don't know any vegans besides you guysAnd I guess I'm just "almost vegan", cuz I ate some Jelly Bellies. I knew that they didn't have gelatin, but forgot that they had some bees wax.
Oh, and now that I've figured out how much junk food is actually vegan, I can see how one could get overweight on a vegan diet, but come on....let's be realistic...eating meat to lose weight? I think that's weird.
When people restrict or eliminate carbohydrates, their body is forced into a toxic state called "ketosis" where the body burns its own issues (including lean muscle tissue like the heart) to create energy. The resulting weight loss is a combination of water, fluids and lean muscle tissue in addition to some adipose tissue.
Yeah...exactly. I just think it's dumb. You can lose weight just as well by eating vegetables, fruits and whole grains and getting enough exercise, so why do people think they need to cut out carbs. They'll never keep the weight off unless they eat like that forever and that's a really terrible thought. People must be eating more animals now than they ever have with the Atkins craze...which is just that...crazy.
Isn't Pamela Anderson? At least I've seen her in a shirt with the vegan sign.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
-Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis
But this question about who are vegans depends wholly on the definition of vegan...
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
-Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis
animalsvoice, I do believe that Pam Anderson is vegan- in an interview, she was cooking with her chef, and said "SO vegan!" about the food they were eating.
Some other vegans:
Natalie Portman
Julia Stiles
Fiona Apple
Brandy
Chrissie Hynde
Woody Harrelson
Doris Day- I believe she's vegan, if not, then just vegetarian
Thought of some more!
Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls)
Bryan Adams
Dennis Kucinich
Elizabeth Berkley
K.D. Lang
Linda Blair (from the Exorcist)
Moby is in fact vegan
Shania Twain
Tea Leoni
Davey Havok and Hunter Burgan of AFI. Gotta love them. Also, Pamela Anderson is Vegan.
These Famous Vegan personalities do use Woolen??
Do they use Vegan bathSoaps,Shampoos,Perfumes? And Tooth paste? And Silk ??
I don't know, but I feel doubt about it.
As Ordinary Vegans don't use these things.
He's probably not alone. As a Vegan I too do not purchase silk, wool or leather and I use only vegan personal hygene and cleaning products.
I've never met a vegan that buys wool an silk and all that. I know there are some folks that call themselves vegan do all that, but they are not vegan.
I know joaquin phoenix and natalie portman are vegans because they've been very open about fur and silk and such. I think a lot of celebs that say they're vegan really are, but just don't publicize it that much for fear of frightening the common people.
Someone told me Natalie Portman isn't really vegan, she's just vegetarian. I don't know if that's true, I thought she was vegan.
My brother has an iPod and I love it, I have nothing bad to say about it. By the way PC's suck big time, MAC's ROCK! I can't use PC's... Nothing is the way it should. :-)i use a Mac at work and it's *rubbish* so it's kind of put me off buying any other Apple products LOL
also i heard that the iPod batteries weren't replaceable, so that once they'd reached the end of their life you had to chuck it out and buy a whole new iPod - how wasteful is that?!!! i think they said they were going to change that but do check before you buy one won't you!
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
-Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis
I thought so too til I read this little quote from her: "I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk moustaches, they're my heroes."Someone told me Natalie Portman isn't really vegan, she's just vegetarian. I don't know if that's true, I thought she was vegan.
She says she loves animals. She needs some help.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
-Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis
I love my iMac!
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
-Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis
James McCartney was mentioned earlier, he lives in my local area i think, and he was mentioned in my local paper:
"An unnamed Brightonian had a long and booze-fuelled debate about vegetarianism in the 24-hour Buddy's cafe with a young man who was shunning the staple 4am breakfast of meat and lard for something more healthy. After engaging in an argument about the benefits of a carnivorous versus veggie lifestyle, the meat eater stumbled out into the dawn feeling victorious. It was only after they had left that somebody pointed out she had been berating Paul McCartney's son James - the offspring of one of Britain's most famous veggies, Linda McCartney".
Moby is definitely vegan, he has a vegan cafe in the lower East Side of Manhattan called Teany. I've been there-big disappointment foodwise and it's full of not my type of people (artsy-fartsy pretentious NYers). Alicia Silverstone give loads of money to farm sanctuary (www.farmsanctuary.org) and Tribe of Heart (www.tribeofheart.org), both great pro-vegan groups. Mary Tyler Moore might be vegetarian/vegan, she was the host of Farm Sanctuary's annual gala this year in NYC.
gosh - anyone else remember the mary tyler moore show? or am i the only oldie here??
I do! And I watched the Dick Van Dyke show too! (reruns)
ah yes d-v-d, i particularly enjoyed his really bad c**kney sparrer accent in Mary poppins!
I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on and off at work today. That's him too isn't it?
oh aye!
- but what were you doing watching chitty chity bang bang AT WORK!!! (shouldn't you be,,,erm...working?)
refused were all vegan, if anyone knows who they are? and fugazi, half vegan, half veggie! hunter from afi actually calls himself 'dietally vegan', as he eats vegan, but wears a leather jacket. confused? yep, me too...
and can anyone help me with this one?; thom yorke of radiohead, is he vegan? i know he's definitely at least veggie, but only seen one thing on the net ever that suggested he was vegan, some thing about a chef making him vegan food specially? anyone got a definitive answer? i'd love to know!
"every second lasts a thousand years, every shotglass holds a million tears, every race ends in a brand new start, there's no soul left, but you can take some heart"
Am I famous yet?
Joaquin Phoenix is definitely vegan
It's said he and his family went vegan when he was three, after they'd spent some time on a fishing boat and seen the way the captured fishies were treated. I think River was one before he died, and I'm almost positive his sister Summer is one. Joaquin refused to wear leather shoes in some designer ad, and the behind-the-scenes stuff on the Quills dvd includes the costume designer discussing how she'd made his character's clogs out of pleather because he's a vegan.
phil collen - guitarist, def leppard, vegan
according to many websites including soystache.com, Thom Yorke is a vegan. i love Radiohead's early stuff, didn't realise he was vegan.
'The word gorilla was derived from the Greek word Gorillai (a "tribe of hairy women")'
His Jacket is a synthetic one made by no-bull I remeber and interviewer challenging him on it once on TV and he showed him the coat and label.
Here are a few web sites regarding famous vegan and veggies and AR actvists
http://www.peta2.com/
http://www.famousveggie.com/
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carl lewis is also vegan..
http://www.earthsave.org/lifestyle/carllewis.htm
Jake from Active Slaughter
Colin from Conflict
all of Riot/Clone
And i bet youre all going..who the hell are these people? Hehe
From Protest To Resistance.
and todd, jord, and chris from propagandhi...stretching the term famous maybe..
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