Famous Vegetarians & Vegans

• Bill Clinton
• Speaking about his vegan diet: "All my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, believe it or not, more energy"

• Ellen DeGeneres
• "I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on animal cruelty. Suddenly, I realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer."

• Thomas Edison
• "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."

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

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

• Benjamin Franklin
• "My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."

• Coretta Scott King (civil rights and anti-war activist, wife of Martin Luther King Jr.)
• "I prefer to eat mostly raw or 'living' foods. The benefits for me are increased energy, a slowing of the aging process, and I have none of the diseases like hypertension, heart disease and diabetes that many people my age seem to get."

• Paul McCartney
• "You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
• "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

• Rosa Parks
• "For over forty years, I've been vegetarian. Growing up, my family had little money—I had health problems early in life because of poor nutrition. Eating healthy is a priority for me."

• Natalie Portman
• "Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed."

• Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
• "He didn't smoke, didn't drink, didn't eat the flesh of any animals, and was extremely disciplined in his daily routine."

• George Bernard Shaw
• "While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"

• Leo Tolstoy (Russian novelist and social reformer)
• "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. And to act so is immoral."

• Leonardo da Vinci
• "I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."