It turns out that some of your favorite celebrities may also be vegetarian. Outkast’s Pamela Anderson, Paul McCartney, Alicia Silverstone, Moby, and Andre 3000 are among the many vegetarian celebrities who decided to stop eating meat due to the damage factory farms do to animals, our health, and the planet.
Former Beatle Paul McCartney said he first became interested in animal rights as a child. Disney movies like Bambi and Dumbo instilled in him the belief that cruelty to animals is a bad idea. He once said, “If you think of Bambi, his mother is killed by a hunter and I think that made me grow up thinking that hunting is not cool.”
McCartney finally decided to make the move to vegetarianism when he and his wife Linda were eating lamb and saw lambs frolicking in a field. This experience helped him make the connection between the food on his plate and live, sensitive animals.
Supermodel and former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has been a vegetarian since she was 16. In high school, I used to donate rolls of quarter coins to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the popular animal rights nonprofit organization. Since then, this vegetarian celebrity has become an outspoken activist for PETA, taking part in many of their campaigns, including those against fur hunting, sealing and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Alicia Silverstone, the young actress who debuted in the movie Clueless, went vegan in 1998 for moral and political reasons. She once told talk show host Rosie O’Donnell that she had gone vegan because “I was no longer going to contribute to violence in the world.” He said that going vegan meant putting food back in the mouths of hungry children, as the crops to feed the cows could be used to feed the villages.
Silverstone also has its own vegetable garden, where it grows vegetables such as lettuce, kale, and squash. “Making your salad from your own garden is just amazing,” she once told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.
Singer Moby first exposed his veganism on a harrowing punk rock album Animal Rights, possibly the most controversial album of his career. Since then, he has taken a more utilitarian approach to making his message more accessible to the masses.
Moby encourages vegetarians and vegans to become sellers of what they believe in. He does this himself by aggressively defending vegetarianism to the public. Moby also promotes vegetarianism at his vegetarian tea shop, Teany.
Outkast star Andre 3000 is also a vegetarian celebrity. In 2004, he won the PETA Award for Sexiest Male Vegetarian. When Andre was asked what he would do on his last day on Earth, he said, “I’d probably go for a good meal, probably some broccoli, because I’m a vegetarian.”
Other notable vegetarian celebrities include Steve Martin from Coldplay, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, Avril Lavigne, Andy Hurley from Fall Out Boy, Natalie Portman, Benji and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte, Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Joaquin Phoenix, Tobey Maguire, Shania Twain and Weird Al. Yankovic.