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  • Woody Harrelson on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#1) Woody Harrelson

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    As a struggling actor in his 20s, Woody Harrelson was living in New York City. While riding the bus one day, a girl told him the secret to getting rid of his acne:

    I was on a bus and some girl sees me blowing my nose. I had acne all over my face, which I'd had for years and years. And she's like: "Hey, you're lactose intolerant. If you quit dairy, all these symptoms you got will be gone in three days." I was like 24. And I was like, No way. But three days later: gone.

    Harrelson is a raw vegan. The True Detective actor also does not eat sugar or flour. Harrelson lives with his family on a working organic farm in Maui. 

  • Dax Shepard on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#2) Dax Shepard

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    Dax Shepard got to work with long-time screen actor Beau Bridges in the 2012 Action Comedy Hit and Run. Bridges was 70 years old at the time, and Shepard was impressed with his physical spryness. He asked Bridges the secret to his success, and it turned out that the elimination of meat and dairy made all the difference:

    When I saw his age was 70, I almost crapped myself. I would go, "Jesus, Beau, you’re not supposed to be able to punch somebody out in a scene at 70. My grandpa couldn’t have done that. What’s your secret?" And he goes, "I’ve been a vegan for 12 years." I was like, damn, I need to think about this. And then I saw Forks Over Knives, that documentary, and I was like, I’m in. I’ve been a vegan since January.

    In addition to his vegan diet, Shepard also quit smoking and drinking. The changes in his lifestyle and diet have made him "tremendously excited about life."

  • Bellamy Young on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#3) Bellamy Young

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    Bellamy Young has been a vegan since college. The Scandal actress contends that the change in diet helped with her cystic acne and energy level. Young used to have issues with digesting food before she switched over to a plant-based diet. Young ties the moment she went vegan to a chicken entree she was served in college. She explains:

    It came to me in a very strange way. I was at college, it was sophomore year and I got the baked breast of chicken and they sort of plated it weird. As I lowered it down to my tray, it looked exactly like my mom’s little furry yippy dog when she’d roll over and want you to rub her tummy. That was it for me.

  • Natalie Portman on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#4) Natalie Portman

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    Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, had a huge impact on Natalie Portman. The actress not only went from vegetarian to vegan after reading the 2009 bestseller about the detriments of industry farming and animal abuse, but also helped to adapt the novel into a 2017 documentary of the same name. Portman served as co-producer and narrator on the project. She was pregnant with her son when she decided to remove dairy and eggs from her diet: 

    When I read the book, that was what made me become a vegan. I think until then, I had thought, "Oh, with eggs and dairy, you’re not [harming] animals. It’s just their natural byproducts." But when I started learning about the conditions - and the environmental effect of all these animals and the impact on humans of having large groups of sick animals together, it really made me want to change immediately.

    The Academy Award-winning actress has also become a voice for the vegan lifestyle. She often publicly talks about both the health benefits and positive environmental impact the switch to a plant-based diet has on an individual and the rest of the world. Portman believes that it's now easier than ever to switch to a vegan diet: 

    I feel like there’s a lot more vegetarian and vegan places opening all the time. I mean, in LA, we’re spoiled - but even in New York. And places like Shake Shack have a vegetarian option now. It’s obviously something that consumers are demanding more. Things like the Impossible Burger and Kite Hill cheese and Van Leeuwen’s vegan ice cream, those things pop up and create really incredible alternatives. People don’t feel like they’re sacrificing anything. They can still have delicious food and not be harming the planet.

  • Russell Brand on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#5) Russell Brand

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    Russell Brand and then-wife Katy Perry announced in 2011 that they switched to a vegan diet after watching the documentary Forks Over Knives. The comedian/actor left the vegan lifestyle after a few years but made a return in 2019. The Brit has been a vegetarian since the age of 14. 

    He tweeted, "I've been baking like a maniac ever since. And I'm vegan now (again). #StandUpToCancer #GBBO @BritishBakeOff."

  • Ne-Yo on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#6) Ne-Yo

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    Ne-Yo watched the 2017 documentary What the Health and it prompted him to go vegan. The doc attempts to link serious health problems with consuming meat and dairy, and accuses the government of trying to cover up this link. 

    The Grammy Award-winning artist and father of four credits the vegan lifestyle with several personal health benefits. "I am loving it," Ne-Yo told Us Weekly. "I genuinely am. It’s been about two years. More energy, my face clears up, weight falls off. I lost, like, 30 pounds!"

    What the Health claims government and big business are in bed together to keep people sick in the name of generating trillions of dollars in health care costs. The documentary's message made the singer-songwriter angry:

    Initially, I watched the documentary What the Health, and to put it frankly, it pissed me off. It really did. I was like, let me get this straight: The person giving you the disease and the person fighting the disease are in bed together? To hell with y’all.

    Ne-Yo added, "Out of spite, I went vegan because I was like, y’all don’t care."

  • Jason Mraz on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#7) Jason Mraz

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    Jason Mraz initially went vegan to help out his friend who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and also went almost entirely raw. He admits to eating raw foods about 75% of the time, but will occasionally treat himself to soup or roasted vegetables.

    The "I'm Yours" singer just wanted to make his friend's dietary transition easiser for him, but wound up loving the vegan lifestyle:

    A guy in my band found out that he had type 2 diabetes and felt that the only way he could help himself was to go raw. I did it as a partner for him so it would be a little easier. In the meantime, I got hooked. It was so easy to make the world's most delicious salads. We had a raw food chef on the road with us for a month who turned us on to making our own hummus and cheeses and a bunch of alternatives to dairy, bread, and sugar. Once you kick sugar, you won't want it, because there are so many other sweet things to eat. Raw desserts? Forget about it!

  • Ellen Pompeo on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#8) Ellen Pompeo

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    Ellen Pompeo has played famed surgeon Dr. Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy since 2005. In 2018, it was her own doctor who inspired the actress to adopt a vegan diet in order to help prevent breast cancer. During a routine health check, Dr. Kristi Funk told Pompeo about her book Breasts: The Owner's Manual. The read inspired the actress to become vegan and to also turn her husband and three children onto a plant-based diet. 

    The dietary change turned out to be an easier transition than she originally expected. Pompeo explains:

    It’s super fun. I don’t think it’s tricky at all - it’s actually easier because meat you have to cook it before it goes bad. Grains and lentils and rice and beans, everything’s in the pantry already. You just have to get vegetables, but vegetables stay good for a week - and I think we all feel better.

  • A Doctor Told will.i.am He Had High Blood Pressure And Cholesterol  on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#9) A Doctor Told will.i.am He Had High Blood Pressure And Cholesterol 

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    Rapper will.i.am decided in late 2017 that it was time to drop all animal products from his diet. The Black Eyed Peas singer credits a trip to the doctor's office for his switch to a vegan diet. The musician said that he initially went to the doctor because he had a cough that would not go away. During the visit, the doctor told him that he had high cholesterol.

    He knew that the life of a traveling musician contributed to his poor diet. After going vegan, the singer went from 210 pounds to 188 pounds. He credits his doctor with helping him and saving the lives of his friend and others:

    I talk to my doctor all the time, he helped save my best friend’s life. Taboo in the Black Eyed Peas had testicular cancer which he fought and beat, he helped Lance Armstrong, and he helped keep Steve Jobs alive for as long as he could.

  • Alicia Silverstone on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#10) Alicia Silverstone

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    When Alicia Siliverstone was 21 years old, she watched a documentary about how animals are slaughtered. It was enough to make the young actress give up eating meat. She recalled:

    I just took a look at my dog and said, "If I'm not willing to eat you, how can I continue to eat these other creatures that have the same desire to live, are just as funny, just as cute as my dogs?"

    The decision to become vegan may have initially been an ethical one for Silverstone, but it also dramatically improved her health. She suffered from bad asthma and insomnia as a teenager. After going vegan, the Clueless star says that she now sleeps wells, keeps extra pounds off, and has a lot of energy. Silverstone published a vegan cookbook, The Kind Diet, in 2009. 

  • Zac Efron on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#11) Zac Efron

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    Zac Efron sees his imperfections, even if the rest of the world does not. In order to keep his matinee idol looks and chiseled abs, Efron decided to experiment with a plant-based diet. The result of the dietary transition has been life-changing for the leading man:

    Just like everyone else, I wake up, look in the mirror, and I see the imperfections and the bags under my eyes, and think, "Oh, man, is this really the best I've ever looked? I'm getting older? What the heck?" Recently what I've started doing is searching for the cure inside that's causing the symptoms of what I'm getting on the outside. Getting more sleep has really taken away the bags under my eyes, so I don't need to worry about it as much. There are other lifestyle changes - I've been experimenting with eating purely vegan. That's completely changed the way that my body works, and the way that I metabolize food, the way it turns into energy, the way that I sleep. It's been brilliant. It’s been great for my exercise, and great for my routine.

  • Bill Clinton on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#12) Bill Clinton

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    Saturday Night Live got a lot of mileage out of President Bill Clinton's love of fast food. However, the jokes became a lot less funny in 2010 when the former president woke up one morning feeling run-down. Clinton went to the hospital that same day and needed emergency heart surgery. Clinton previously had quadruple-bypass surgery in 2004 and needed a new set of stents inserted.

    The emergency surgery was a wake-up call for Clinton, who wanted to not only see his daughter Chelsea get married, but also be around for his future grandchildren. He opted to try out a vegan diet and subsequently lost 30 pounds. He said:

    I just decided that I was the high-risk person, and I didn't want to fool with this anymore. And I wanted to live to be a grandfather. So I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

  • Ellie Goulding on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#13) Ellie Goulding

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    Ellie Goulding lives an extremely healthy lifestyle. The singer-songwriter runs half-marathons, rarely drinks alcohol, has smoothies for breakfast, and has been a vegetarian since she was a teenager. She vows to never eat meat again and is trying to adopt a completely vegan lifestyle. The British pop star removed meat from her diet for good once she figured out where meat actually comes from. She said:

    In being vegetarian, I realized I could be an athlete and not need meat for the protein. There’s actually more protein in greens than meat. Once I fully understood where meat came from... I found that concept quite hard to live with. If you don’t need meat to survive, I don’t see why you have to have it. Also it makes you feel tired, it makes you feel lethargic, and your body finds it hard to process so much meat all the time.

  • Jessica Chastain on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#14) Jessica Chastain

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    Jessica Chastain was in her 20s when her doctor wanted to put her on medication to control her high cholesterol. Although her energy level was low, she was apprehensive about taking pills and decided to try out a vegan diet. The Zero Dark Thirty star noticed an immediate spike in her energy. Even still, she wasn't entirely sold on the vegan lifestyle until she later ate fish at a restaurant. She explained:

    I went to the restaurant and I ordered fish and risotto and immediately I felt bad, like not emotionally but physically, and so I said okay, I’m going to just listen to my body now. Being vegan was not anything I ever wanted to be. I just really was listening to what my body was telling me.

  • Portia de Rossi on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#15) Portia de Rossi

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    Portia de Rossi always considered herself an animal lover. However, she did not place all animals on the same level. The actress and her wife Ellen DeGeneres moved to a farm in California, which was home to several cows and calves.

    After the couple adopted a horse, de Rossi noticed how the cows interacted with it: 

    The cows formed a single-file line, and one by one they touched noses with the new horse as a greeting. The calves wouldn't approach on their own, so one of the cows nudged them forward. Each of the babies touched the horse's nose, then jumped around and played like little children.

    The interaction between the animals was an emotional one for de Rossi:

    I started crying and thought, I can't possibly keep eating these animals. Before that moment, I wouldn't have fathomed cows doing something like that. I was forced to confront the fact that I had chosen to remain ignorant of their nature because it was just easier that way.

    Over the course of the next year, the Arrested Development star went completely vegan. She said she no longer craves cheese or meat and feels happier:

    Before that morning on the farm, I ranked an animal's value based on how "human" it was. Now I don't judge other beings that way - every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

  • Daryl Hannah on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#16) Daryl Hannah

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    When she was 11 years old, Daryl Hannah made friends with a calf that was on a truck outside of a restaurant in Wisconsin. After bonding with the animal, she asked the trucker the calf's name. He responded, "Veal, tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock." 

    The moment had a major impact on the Sense8 actress. "That was it: I could no longer disassociate the creature from what was on my plate," she said.

    Hannah has become an advocate for the vegan and holistic lifestyle. She vlogs regularly in hopes that she can serve as an inspirational person for others to live mindfully and help the environment. She says:

    The planet seems to have an immune system. So many things in nature help bolster it so it can recover. Our species is definitely a problem, but we can be incredibly imaginative and inventive. I've come across some of the most amazing people, who are creating better ways for us to be productive in life and not just consumers. We need a serious change in our priorities, no doubt, but as people get informed, they do make wiser choices and insist on change.

  • Venus Williams on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#17) Venus Williams

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    Venus Williams almost retired from tennis after she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disase Sjögren's syndrome. The complicated disease caused the tennis champion to withdraw from the 2011 US Open during the second round because of various pains and fatigue. She needed to take time off from the grueling sport. Williams went to a raw vegan diet and was able to get back on the court. She explained her dietary decision and how it changed her life: 

    I started for health reasons. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and I wanted to maintain my performance on the court. Once I started I fell in love with the concept of fueling your body in the best way possible. Not only does it help me on the court, but I feel like I’m doing the right thing for me.

  • Miley Cyrus on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#18) Miley Cyrus

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    Miley Cyrus is an avid animal rights activist. She decided to go vegan when she was 22 years old after her dog was mauled by a coyote. The incident made the pop star give up all animal products.

    Since then, Cyrus has not only embraced a vegan diet, but she also lives a totally animal-free lifestyle, which includes her wardrobe. The "Wrecking Ball" singer explained: 

    Choosing to live as a sustainable vegan activist means wearing more vintage (less waste; loving pieces for longer), playing with the newest eco-materials and technology, and making custom vegan pieces with some of my favorite designers.

  • Emily Deschanel on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#19) Emily Deschanel

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    Emily Deschanel lives a totally vegan lifestyle, and she says her husband and two kids are 99% vegan as well (they do occasionally eat eggs). The Bones star is a strong proponent of the idea that when people eat vegetarian and vegan, it dramatically helps the environment and can even save the planet. The actress became vegan as a child after visiting the Farm Sanctuary in New York and saw that all of the animals had their own unique personality. She explained: 

    Everything started when I decided to become vegan 22 years ago after visiting their sanctuary in New York. It was life-changing to see animals growing up in a healthy environment. I like to take Henry [Deschanel's son] so that he can experience these animals and see that they have their own personalities - even the chickens! It’s very eye-opening to go there because they also do a great job of educating about the dangers of factory farms and where our food comes from.

  • Maggie Q on Random Famous People Recount The Moment They Became Vegan

    (#20) Maggie Q

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    Maggie Q uses her celebrity and social media to be an advocate for animal rights and to help nonprofit animal organizations. The Nikita star has been a vegan for over 20 years.

    While attending a concert, the actress was approached by a PETA employee who made her aware of how animals were mistreated in the entertainment industry. It was a lesson that Q would take to heart. She talked about her shift to a vegan lifestyle in 2017: 

    I transitioned to a plant-based diet about 19 years ago while living in Hong Kong. I attended a concert, and a PETA Asia employee was tabling outside of the show. I was watching her, and it didn’t seem anyone was paying much attention to what she was offering. It made me feel bad for her, so I walked over. We connected, and she sent me information on animal-welfare in the fashion, food, and entertainment industries. It made me sick, but nothing prepared me for the truth of the environmental impact of meat production. I quit cold turkey and never looked back. I didn’t understand how I could have ever claimed to love animals but hadn’t made the choices to protect them.

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There are many types of vegetarianism, such as the freestyle (it’s Ok to break the rules once in a while) and the ascetic (no eggs, no milk, no butter, no cheese). There are several reasons for VEGETARIANISM: 1. Religious claims or vegetarian expressions of loyalty to religious denominations, ascetic forms of which are most common; 2. Purely for bodybuilding, weight loss, exercise, and so on, this is mostly freestyle. 3. For the mercy of the heart, one can not bear the animal because of their own appetite and was killed.

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