NEWS: Spot the Vegetarian

CULTURE: Spot the Vegetarian

Happy World Vegetarian Awareness Month. Can you guess which of the above celebristuds is living a healthier, cruelty-free life? Let's see, could it be Outkast's hip-hop fabulous André 3000 (the artist formerly known as Dre)? Is there any chance in hell that it's the always hilarious and sometimes sloshed Danny DeVito? Or perhaps it's the intense and brooding Joaquin Phoenix?

If you guessed André.....you're right!

If you guessed Danny DeVito.....you're also right, kind of, although he may be falling off the wagon.

Can you still legitimately call yourself a vegetarian if you own a chop house? Um, methinks not.

Finally, if you guessed Joaquin Phoenix...you're right again, you clever thing.

Other celebrity veg*ans include Elvis Costello, Dustin Hoffman, David Duchovny, and Alec Baldwin.

Want to join the club, or already in it? The North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS) is holding a contest, and you could win big by showing off your veg lifestyle.

let's make this one for the birds, indeed. hahaha.

well, just because DeVito is a vegetarian doesn't mean he can't be his old corpulent self...cheese is technically vegetarian and lets face it, it's basically salted aged fat (particularly here in the states)

Doesn't Andre 3000 wear fur and leather?

Mmm, meat. Delicious meat. Wonderful meat.

A vegan bird once landed on my shoulder and lent me this thought: apparently, human beings have been eating the wrong thing SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. How did our ancestors ever survive eating such filthy mammoths all the time? Why those murderers!!!

it's like, by that logic there would be no nakey interwebs sites and we'd still be drawing boobs on caves and shit right?

You absolutely can.... There are MANY vegetarians out there who choose that lifestyle for health reasons. It is not exclusively something that is done for animal rights reasons.

Just as there are bar tenders that don't drink, and non-smokers that work at tobacco shops, there are plenty of vegetarians that sell and cook meat.

Or even worse: we'd be this:

Dear god, the horror! Eat your meat everyone! Eat your meat!

these men are obviously vegetarian because they simply don't like to eat meat,...maybe it gives them gas...they are certainly not by by political choice. They all wear leather, and all use the medium of celluloid to push their occupations..as far as I am aware leather comes from dead animals, and film being compromise of gelatin deratives also comes from dead animals..perhaps when they make clothing and film they use a humane and painless culling technique..or maybe they simply just wait for the beast to die of old age before they strip it of its meat,bone and other by products. I appreciate they try to watch where their consumer $ goes..perhaps even use their celeb status to make others aware of the meat industry, but in many various ways people can still hand over money to meat products and deratives without buying or eating meat itself. To be vegetarian for political reason is a very tough life style to take on indeed.

Oh puh-LEASE. You have to be fucking kidding me. What a self-righteous, stick-your-head-in-the-sand, arrogant piece of writing.

ALL of those celebrities live in the US, which means that their coffee and cigarettes, oil for their cars, their clothes, EVERYTHING THEY BUY is in some way linked to cruelty, unfair trade practices and general unhealthiness. Simply omitting meat from your diet does not guarantee that your life will be healthier, and it certainly doesn't guarantee that your life will be cruelty-free. That's completely ignorant.

and everyone knows that the only source of protein today is SWEET, SWEET DEAD ANIMAL FLESH!

NOT FAIR

YOU SAID WHICH

I ONLY GUESSED ONE

Which is also why the only real vegans are millionaires, and can afford not only fifty dollars worth of pills every week, but the proper diversity of vegetation from around the globe to make up for the lack of protein in lettuce and fucking soy. Otherwise, if you don't have enough money, and you don't cheat on your diet, you're actually, literally making yourself stupid by being vegan. Which may explain the attitudes they all have.

Some people simply can't live a vegetarian lifestyle and be a healthy person at the same time.

But besides that, I also have the good fortune of not caring.

Beans, beans, they're good for your heart!
The more you eat the more you fart!

Not so good for social interactions, but beans are quite delicious. Especially Great Northerns.

i can't tell if you misunderstood or if that was deliberate.

This makes me wonder if this is the reason why all the Morningstar Farms and Boca Burger products are all 50% off at the grocery stores near me.

Hey, my species didn't battle its way to the top of the food chain just to eat weeds...

I'm all for eating meat as part of proper nutrition, but for the record, soybeans are one of the few plant sources of complete protein.

Yeah, because legumes and whole grains are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO expensive and fancy!

Wait, they're not?

If you don't know how amino acids work (or where they come from) it's probably a good idea to not act like you know what you're talking about with regards to veganism. (In other words, "fifty dollars of pills a week" is bullshit, and completely unnecessary if you know what you're doing in a vegan diet.)

Of course, this is coming from a guy who makes absolutely sure he gets steak at least four times a year and would probably kill everybody he knows before he gave up cheese.

Now, as to the evolutionary process of animal protein supplementing the diet of hominids, for the better part of the last 5 million years, that meant cracking open the bones of animals that were already dead and eating marrow. I don't think that's where the people making that argument wanted said argument ending up. Additionally, it's simply just as valid to point out that healthy veganism is another development in human culture that has a lot of beneficial side effects, just like meat-hunting was for humans a quarter of a million years ago. Today, those side-effects of hunting are no longer germane for the vast majority of the population, even in so-called "underdeveloped" nations or aboriginal sub-populations. (A notable exception, for example, would be the Inuit.)

I just ate two veggie dogs wth soy cheese and they were delicious. Which brings me to the only issue I have with being a vegetarian, why are all the veg products made to mimic meat products? Veggie burger, veggie dogs, veggie ribs and veggie chic nuggets are all meat pretenders! What the hell? Can't we make a clean break and create some of our own food stuff?

Anyway, I am a bad vegetarian because I had no idea that there was even an awareness month. So, thanks for the heads up on that. Off to bed now, and in the morning I am going to have some egg beaters, a few soy sausage links, and a nice tall glass of chocolate Silk. Mmm mmm tasty.