Beautiful Vegetarian Celebrities

"“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.” " - Sir Paul McCartney

"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. … 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." - Brandy

"The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals." - Chrissie Hynde

"I try to stick to a vegan diet—heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products." - Clint Eastwood

"I saw a semitruck of chickens drive by one day when we were on the road, and it had really decrepit-looking chickens, and I felt so sorry for them. I was like, ‘Man, I can't eat chicken after seeing that.' It's been about three months. I love animals, and sometimes I feel like a hypocrite eating chicken or beef, because I know I wouldn't be able to kill one myself. If I was looking at a cow and I had a gun, I don't think I'd actually be able to shoot it."" - Jack Johnson

"Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine—people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with—are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it." - Joaquin Phoenix

"There were no slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden." - Unknown

"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

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

"I think there's something odd about eating another living anything." - Shania Twain

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." " - Abraham Lincoln

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. " Mark Twain

"I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures. " - Christian Barnard, surgeon

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity. " - Bob Barker

"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." - Common, hip-hop artist (in photo, holding a delicious veggieburger)

"A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.” - David Brenner

"I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot."
- Kate Bush

“Chickens, cows, pigs, and fish may not be as cute or cuddly as puppies or kittens, but they have the same capacity for suffering. If farmers did to dogs and cats what they do to animals they're raising for food, they could be prosecuted for animal abuse and locked up. What people need to understand is that if they're eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.”- Pamela Anderson

“I think it's really disgusting that designers use fur, and it's disgusting that people wear fur. It has to stop. It's so unnecessary in today's world, with the technology we have. I'm wearing fabulous "ultrasuede" tonight. This is totally the look of leather. There's a way to get it without death involved. We should be part of the solution, not part of the problem.” - Marc Bouwer, fashion designer

“I really wanted to get in shape because I have a family history of diabetes and high blood pressure and things of that nature. I felt like it was necessary for me to combat those issues at a young age before it became a bigger issue. I went to this place called Duke Diet & Fitness Center for a month and learned how to change my eating habits. Two weeks after leaving there I turned to a vegetarian diet. It's been wonderful.” - Ruben Studdard, Winner of "Americal Idol," Season 2

"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count." - Rue McClanahan

"Some people are still going to want to eat meat... we do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet." - David Stroud of the American Meat Institute

"I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long." - Riki Rockett

"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

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