| As it turns out, some of your favorite celebrities may | | | | going to contribute to the violence in the world |
| also be vegetarians. Pamela Anderson, Paul | | | | anymore". She said that going vegan meant putting |
| McCartney, Alicia Silverstone, Moby and Andre 3000 | | | | food back into the mouths of starving children, since |
| of Outkast are among the many vegetarian celebrities | | | | crops grown to feed cows could otherwise be used |
| who decided to stop eating meat because of the | | | | to feed villages.Silverstone also has her own vegetable |
| harm that factory farming does to animals, our health | | | | garden, where she grows vegetables like lettuce, kale |
| and the planet.Former Beatle Paul McCartney said he | | | | and pumpkins. "To make your salad from your own |
| was first turned on to animal rights as a child. Disney | | | | garden is just amazing", she once said to talk show |
| movies like Bambi and Dumbo instilled in him a belief | | | | host Ellen DeGeneres.Singer Moby first exposed his |
| that animal cruelty is a bad idea. He once said, "If you | | | | veganism in an angsty punk rock album titled Animal |
| think of Bambi, its mum gets killed by a hunter and I | | | | Rights, arguably the most controversial album of his |
| think that made me grow up thinking hunting isn't | | | | career. Since then, he has taken a more utilitarian |
| cool".McCartney decided to finally make the move to | | | | approach in order to make his message more |
| vegetarianism when he and his wife Linda were eating | | | | accessible to the masses.Moby encourages |
| a meal of lamb and happened to see lambs frolicking | | | | vegetarians and vegans to become salesmen for |
| in a field. This experience helped him make the | | | | what they believe. He himself does this by |
| connection between the food on his plate and living, | | | | aggressively championing vegetarianism in the public |
| sentient animals.Supermodel and former Baywatch | | | | eye. Moby also promotes vegetarianism in his |
| star Pamela Anderson has been a vegetarian since | | | | vegetarian tea shop, Teany.Outkast star Andre 3000 |
| the age of 16. In high school, she used to donate rolls | | | | is also a vegetarian celebrity. In 2004, he won PETA's |
| of quarters to People for the Ethical Treatment of | | | | award for Sexiest Male Vegetarian. When Andre was |
| Animals, the popular nonprofit animal rights organization. | | | | asked what he would do on his last day on Earth, he |
| Since then this vegetarian celebrity has become an | | | | said, "I'd probably go for a great meal-some broccoli |
| outspoken activist for PETA, participating in many of | | | | probably, because I'm a vegetarian".Other notable |
| their campaigns including ones against fur, seal hunting | | | | vegetarian celebrities include Coldplay's Steve Martin, |
| and Kentucky Fried Chicken.Alicia Silverstone, the | | | | Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy's |
| young actress who made her debut in the movie | | | | Andy Hurley, Natalie Portman, Good Charlotte's Benji |
| Clueless, went vegan in 1998 for moral and political | | | | and Joel Madden, Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, |
| reasons. She once said to talk show host Rosie | | | | Joaquin Phoenix, Tobey Maguire, Shania Twain and |
| O'Donnell that she went vegan because she "was not | | | | Weird Al Yankovic. |