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Famous Vegetarians & Vegan Quotes

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"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."
Albert Einstein , physicist, 1921 Nobel Prize recipient:

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
"It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
Albert Einstein , physicist, 1921 Nobel Prize recipient:

"There is just no reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. Man can live without meat."
The Dalai Lama

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
Gandhi

"If man wants freedom why keep birds
and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat."
Leonardo-da-Vinci

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 emn
Alice Walker American author, The Color Purple: TolstoyTolstoy

"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."
Benjamin Franklin

"Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. He shall eat butter and honey, so that he may know the evil from the good."
Isaiah 7:14-15

"The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion"
Mahaparinirvana (Mahayana Version)

The 13th Century Zen Master Doyen, while visiting China, asked this question: "What must the mental attitude and daily activities of a student be when he is engaged in Buddhist meditation and practice? Ju-Ching answered that one of the things he should avoid is eating meat. "The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities."
Zen Master Ikkyu

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.
-Martha Stewart

"...Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat..."
Genesis 1:29

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.
Vaslav Nijinsky

"Thou shalt not kill."
Exodus 20:13

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes.

"One should treat animals such as deer, camels, asses, monkeys, mice, snakes, birds and flies exactly like one's own son. How little difference there actually is between children and these innocent animals."
Srimad Bhagavatam 7.14.9

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us – in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize 1913

"Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: "I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live." (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Erich Fromm

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I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-Alyssa Milano

"Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God."
Cardinal John H. Newman

"Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper."
German Composer Richard Wagner (1813)

"Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator."
Native American Chief (1854)

Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.
-Pamela Anderson

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
Leo Tolstoy

"We pray on Sundays that we may have light/To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;/We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,/And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead."
George Bernard Shaw
I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual ...-Avril Lavigne

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
St. Francis of Assisi

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, (quoted in You Said a Mouthful)

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.
Leo TolstoyRussian novelist & philosopher, (1829-1910):

"If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food."
Leo TolstoyRussian novelist & philosopher, (1829-1910):

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.
-Ricky Williams

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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe and moo and walk around.
-Moby

"Killing is a denial of love. To kill or to eat what another has killed is to rejoice in cruelty. And cruelty hardens our hearts and blinds our vision, and we are unable to see that they whom we kill are our fellow brothers and sisters in the One Family of Creation."
G.L. Rudd, author of Why Kill For Food?

"Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should
all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity."
Father Thomas Berry, Fordham University, New York

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. -Clint Eastwood

"The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.
-Alicia Silverstone

"One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter."
Lord Buddha, Dhammapada, 131

"He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man."
Lord Buddha, Dhammapada, 405

"Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food"

Roshi Philip Kapleau, 'To Cherish All Life'
I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier
-Woody Harrelson

"The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat."
Famous 4th century Chinese Buddhist traveller Fa-hsien, travelling in India

"I have enforced the laws against killing certain animals and many others. But the greatest progress of Righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living things. "
Pillar Edict of King Ashoka (268-233 BC)

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. -Alicia Silverstone

"To be non-violent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always the strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally..."
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

"For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of mind the first man touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, set forth tables of dead, stale bodies, and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench?
How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions or wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us. For the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being."
Plutarch in his essay 'On Eating Flesh'

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now," says Shania, who hasn't eaten an animal since she married longtime vegetarian (and record producer) Mutt Lange.
I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.-Shania Twain

"If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax."
Plutarch

"The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts..."
St. Basil (AD 320 - 79)

I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
-Chelsea Clinton

"I am full of the burnt offering of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of goats...Bring no more vain offerings... When you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes though you make many prayers, and I will not hear you. For your hands are full of blood..."
Isaiah 1:11-15

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
-The XLV Dalai Lama

"...Therefore the Lord will give you meat and you shall eat. You shall not eat one day or two days, or ten days or twenty days, but till it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord..."
Numbers 11:18-20

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
-Matthew 5:7

"...He who gives permission, he who kills the animal, he who sells the slaughtered animal, he who cooks the animal, he who administers the distribution of the flesh, and at last he who eats the flesh are all murderers and all of them are punishable under the law of karma."
The Laws of Manu (5:51)

"Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the attainment of heavenly bliss; let him therefore shun the use of meat."
The Laws of Manu (5:48)
"Having well considered the disgusting origin of flesh and the cruelty of fettering and slaying of corporeal beings, let him entirely abstain from eating flesh."
The Laws of Manu

"Those who never harm others by (physical deeds), by thought and speech, in whatever condition they may be, do not go to Yama's abode. Men who harm other creatures do not go to heaven, in spite of their reciting Vedas, giving gifts, practicing austerities or performing sacrifices. Harmlessness is a great form of piety. Harmlessness alone is a great penance. Harmlessness is a great gift. This what the sages say."
Padma Purana III 31-25-28

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.
-Mohandas Gandhi

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it. -Mohandas Gandhi

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
-Henry David Thoreau

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.
-River Phoniex

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity
. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest..."
Albert Schweitzer

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
-Thomas More

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
Marty Feldman

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. -Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is not an animal on the earth, or a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you."
Koran, surah 6 verse 38

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
-Mary Tyler Moore

"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself, and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel."
Leo Tolstoy

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
-Doris Day

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson

How can you eat anything with eyes?
-Will Kellogg

Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
-George Bernard Shaw

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with". And so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
Henry David Thoreau

"For the sake of love of purity, let the Bodhisattva refrain from eating flesh, which is born of semen, blood etc. To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple, who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating meat...It is not true that meat is proper food and permissible when the animal was not killed by himself, when he did not order to kill it, when it was not especially meant for him. There may be some people in the future who, being under the influence of taste for meat will string together in various ways sophisticated arguments to defend meat eating. But meat eating in any form, in any manner and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited. "Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit and will not permit..."
Lord Buddha (Lanka vatara Sutra)

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. -Richard Gere

"The reason for practicing dhyana and seeking to attain samadhi is to escape from the suffering of life, but in seeking to escape from suffering ourselves why should we inflict it upon others? Unless you can so control your minds that even the thought of brutal unkindness and killing is abhorred, you will never be able to escape from the bondage of the world's life...
After my paranirvana in the last kalpa different ghosts will be encountered everywhere deceiving people and teaching them that they can eat meat and still attain enlightenment...How can a bhikshu, who hopes to become a deliverer of others, himself be living on the flesh of other sentient beings?"
Lord Buddha (Surangama Sutra)

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

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
-George Bernard Shaw "Devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin."
Bhagavad Gita 3:13

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
-Mahabharata

"One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it."
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
-Neal D. Barnard, M.D

"All tremble at Violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill or cause another to kill."
Dhammapada 130

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
-Henry David Thoreau

"He who has renounced all Violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes other to kill - him do I call a holy man"
Dhammapada 405

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

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

A human can 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.
-Leo Tolstoy

"It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions."
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
-Ali MacGraw
Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
-Steven Spielberg

"We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away it

' life."
J.P. Vaswani , Why Kill For Food?
"Therewith He causes crops to grow for you, and the olive and the date-palm and grapes and all kinds of fruit. Lo! Herein is indeed a portent for people who reflect."
Koran, surah 16, verse 11

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-Buddha

"A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and we bring forth from it grain so that they will eat thereof. And we have placed therein gardens of the date-palm and grapes, and We have placed therein. That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands created it not. Will they not, then, give thanks?"
Koran, surah 36, verses 33-35

"Maim not the brute beasts...Whoever is kind to the lesser creatures is kind to himself...He who takes pity (even) on a sparrow and spares its life. Allah will be merciful on him on the day of judgement."
Prophet Mohammed

Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it.
-Bill Maher

I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.
-Josh Hartnett

Once someone asked George Bernard Shaw how it was that he looked so youthful. "I don't," Shaw retorted. "I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses?"

In the Past

Louisa May Alcott, writer
Clara Barton, nurse and the first president of the American Red Cross
Charles Darwin, author and scientist
Leonardo da Vinci, artist
Isadora Duncan, dancer
Thomas Edison, inventor
Albert Einstein, physicist
Ben Franklin, American statesman, philosopher and scientist
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence leader
Jerry Garcia, musician, member of Grateful Dead
Sylvester Graham, inventor
Doug Henning, magician
John Harvey Kellogg, physician and scientist
Linda McCartney
Bob Marley, musician
John Milton, writer
Sir Isaac Newton, physicist
River Phoenix, actor
Plato, physicist and writer
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
Pythagoras, Greek philosopher
Swami Satchidananda, spiritual leader
Albert Schweitzer, musician, physician, Nobel Peace Prize winner
George Bernard Shaw, writer and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, English novelist
Percey Bysshe Shelley, English poet
Upton Sinclair, author
Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer & Nobel Prize winner
Socrates, Greek philosopher
Benjamin Spock, author and pediatrician
Henry David Thoreau, writer
Leo Tolstoy, author
Vincent Van Gogh, painter
Voltaire, French writer
HG Wells, author
John Wesley, religious leader

Present Vegetarians

Andre 3000 (vegan), in Outkast, musician
Fiona Apple, singer
Bryan Adams, musician
Dammon Albarn, musician (Blur)
Shri Appleby, actress
Christina Applegate, actress
Casey Affleck, actor
Quinn Allman (The Used)
Lauren Anderson, musician
Pamela Anderson, actress
Maxine Andrews, singer with Andrews Sisters
Rosanna Arquette, actress
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
Erykah Badu (vegan), singer
Dave Baksh (Sum 41)
Brigitte Bardot, actress
Bob Barker, TV personality
Kim Basinger, actress
Angela Bassett, actress
Jeff Beck, musician
Ed Begley Jr, actor
Amber Benson, actress
Elizabeth Berkley, actress
Billy, guitarist (Good Charlotte)
Linda Blair, actress
Traci Bingham, actress
Linda Blair, actress
Orlando Bloom, actor
Cindy Blum, opera singer
Surya Bonaly, Olympic figure skater
Boy George, musician
Berke Breathed, cartoonist
Brandy Norwood, singer (vegan)
Christie Brinkley, model
Brandon Brooks, actor
Pierce Broson, actor
Roger Brown, professional football player
Hunter Burgan, musician (AFI)
Ellen Burstyn, actress
Peter Burwash, tennis pro, Davis Cup winner
Lauren Bush, model and niece of the president
Andreas Cahling, bodybuilder
Chris Campbell, Olympic medallist in wrestling
David Carradine, actor
Adam Carson, musician (AFI)
Juhi Chawla, Indian actress
Deepak Chopra, medical doctor and author
Julie Christie, actress
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of ex-president
Phil Collen, musician
Rachael Leigh Cook, actress
James Cromwell, actor
Skeeter Davis, country singer
Doris Day, actress
Brad Delp (Boston)
David Duchovny, actor
Joe Elliot, guitarist with Def Leppard
Michael Eisner (Disney CEO)
Shannon Elizabeth, actress
Melssa Etheridge, rock singer
Kevin Eubanks, musician (Tonight Show)
Peter Falk, actor
Corey Feldman, actor
John Feldman (Goldfinger)
Bill Ford (CEO of Ford Motor Company)
Jorja Fox, actress
Michaek J Fox, actor
Peter Gabriel, musician
Richard Gere, actor
Robin Gibb and wife artist Dwina Murphy Gibb, Musician Bee Gees
Sara Gilbert, actress
Elliot Gould, actor
Dick Gregory, runner (fruitarian)
Geoffry Giuliano, TV Ronald McDonald
Darah Hanah, actress
Woody Harrelson, actor
Emmylou Harris, singer
Josh Hartnett, actor
Richie Havens, musician
Davey Havok, musician (AFI) vegan
Ruth Heidrich, three time Ironman
Dustin Hoffman, actor
Keith Holmes, WBC World Middleweight Champion
Desmond Howard, Heisman trophy winner and professional football player
Jeph Howard, musician (The Used)
Steve Howe, guitarist with Yes
Hunter, musician (AFI)
Chrissie Hynde, musician
Natalie Imbruglia, singer
India, Arie, singer
Janet Jackson, singer
Michael Jackson, singer
Andrew Jacobs Jr, US Indian congressman
Mick Jagger, musician
Steve Jobs, Apples Computers founder & CEO
Steve Jocz, musician (Sum 41)
Howard Jones, singer
Orlando Jones, actor
Andy Kaufman, actor
Casey Kasem, radio personality
Dr John Harvey Kellogg, doctor
Jamie Kennedy, actor
Anthony Kiedis, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Billie Jean King, tennis champion
Joel, musician (Good Charlotte)
Daniel Johns, musician (Silverchair)
Nastassja Kinski, actress (states she is pretty much a vegetarian, but not totally)
Lenny Kravitz, musician
Dennis Kucinich, Congressman
Anil Kumble, Indian cricket star
K. D. Lang, musician
Dean Ornish M.D. "Eat Me Less" author
Tony La Russa, manager of Oakland Athletics
Choris Leachman, actress
Sheryl Lee, actress
Annie Lennox, rock singer
Phil Lesh, bass player of the Grateful Dead
Marv Levy, head coach of the Buffalo Bills
Ananda Lewis, former BET "Teen Summit" host, former MTV VJ, talk show host
Kenny Loggins, musician
Joanna Lumley, actress
Howard Lyman, autor (vegan)
Benji Madden, musician (Good Charlotte)
Joel Madden, musician (Good Charlotte)
Tobey Maquire, actor
Catherine Malfitano, opera singer
Bill Manetti, powerlifting champion
Billy Martin, musician (Good Charlotte)
Chris Martin, musician (Cold Play)
Steve Martin, actor and comedian
James McCartney
Paul McCartney, musician
Stella McCartney, designer and daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney
Cone McCasin, musician (Sum 41)
Ian McKellen, actor
Natalie Merchant, singer
Michael Medved, film critic
Moby, musician
Demi Moore, actress
Mary Tyler Moore, actress
Morrisssey, singer
Edwin Moses, Olympic track gold medallist
Larry Mullen Jr, musician (U2)
Mya, singer
Joe Namath, football player
Martina Navratilova, tennis professional
Kevin Nealon, comedian
Olivia Newton-John, singer and actress
Stevie Nicks, musician
Leonard Nimoy, actor
Paavo Nurmi, long distance runner with 20 world records
Conor Oberst, musician (Bright Eyes)
Todd Oldham, fashion designer
Tatum O'Neal, actress
Kelly Osbourne, singer
Carrie Otis, model
Anna Paquin, actress
Alexandra Paul, actress
Tatjana Patitz, musician
Bill Pearl, four-time Mr Universe
Anthony Peeler, Minnesota Timberwolves
Laban Phiedias, pro skater
Joaquin Phoenix, actor
Summer Phoenix (Sister of River, vgan)
Kate Pierson, singer with B-52
Gary Player, champion golfer
Martha Plimpton, actress
Natalie Portman, actress
Stan Price, world record bench press holder
Prince, musician
Prodigy, musician (Mobb Deep)
Jade Puget, musician (AFI)
Bonnie Raitt, musician
Tyler Rann (Midtown)
Phylicia Rashad, actress
Littel Richard, musician
Rikki Rockett, musician (Poison)
Fred Rogers, TV's Mr Rogers
Murray Rose, Olympic gold medallist and world record holder in swimming
Charlotte Ross, actress
Todd Rundgren, musician
RZA, record producer, composer of Kill Bill soundtrack, member of Wu-tang Clan
Gabe Saporta, musician (Midtown)
Heath Saraceno, musician (Midtown)
Claudia Schiffer, model
Fred Schneider, musician (B-52s)
Tom Scholz, musician (Boston, vegan)
Dave Scott, six-time Ironman triathlon winner
Steven Seagal, actor
Peter Sellers, actor
Ally Sheedy, actress
Russell Simmons (vegan), music, designer
Grace Slick, musician
Ringo Starr, musician
Stic.man (Dead Prez)
Julia Stiles, actress
Michael Stipe, musician (R.E.M.)
Rider Strong, actor
Serj Tankian, musician (System of a Down)
Leigh Taylor-Young, actress
Ed Templeton, pro skate-boarder
John Tesh, TV personality
Tina Turner, singer
Shania Twain, country singer
Liv Tyler
Cicely Tyson, actress
Eddie Vedder, musician (Pearl Jam)
Milo Ventimiglia, actor
Eddie Vedder, musician (Pearl Jam)
Lindsay Wagner, actress
Lesley Ann Warren, actress
Keenen Ivory Wayans, actor (vegan)
Dennis Weaver, actor
Deryck "Bizzy D" Whibley, musician (Sum 41)
Persia White, actress
Jane Wiedin, musician (The Go-Go's)
Gary Anthony Williams, actor
Vanessa Williams, actress
Weird Al Yankovic, comedian, singer (vegan)
Dwight Yoakam, country western singer
Thorn Yorke, musician (Radiohead)

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