My goodness, I am quite the trend-setter.
I decided back in November that I was going to go vegan, and now it appears Portia de Rossi and Ellen Degeneres have made the same choice.
Former Ally McBeal star De Rossi reveals she and her wife went meat and dairy-free late last year – and De Generes’ healthy diet choice is already paying off for her.
The actress explains, “We just made that shift in our lives. The benefit of it is weight loss. For her more than me. Her body responded to it very well. It is amazing.
“We are just both very happy. It feels like such a compassionate choice. We are such animal lovers, why stop short of cows and chickens? It didn’t make any sense.”
I would highly recommend going vegan, or at least trying to eat vegan a couple days out of the week. Not only will you probably lose weight, your skin will clear up and you’ll feel a lot better physically and emotionally. It is healthier for animals, for the environment, and for you! If you want a quick, easy read on the advantages of veganism, pick up Skinny Bitch. If you want to hear the scientific facts and studies, and you are prepared for a denser read, pick up The China Study.
I’m not trying to be rude, but weren’t you just recently complaining about your skin on your other blog? Does it really help skin at all in your personal experience?
I could never do vegan
I recently became vegan too and I think it’s awesome what you’re doing. It’s so cool to hear about more and more people going vegan. Hopefully Ellen will last longer than Oprah who picked it up as a “cleanse” for a month and obviously didn’t do it for the right reasons.
I’m not vegan, but I don’t eat any red meat and I go vegetarian a few days a week. Full on veganism just wouldn’t work for me. A lot of women turn to veganism to lose weight and they need to realize the commitment to veganism is not about weight or calories.
Didn’t you eat a non-vegan cake like, last week?
That is great if it means something to you and if it works for you, but it will be a cold day in hell before I give up my burgers and steak! And go ahead and call me a hypocrite – but I love my 2 dogs as much as any animal lover. Humans are carnivores. Get over it!
they r omnivores actually
“Get over it?” Why the hostility? No one’s forcing you to give up your burgers and steak. But Bob is correct. We are OMNIVORES, not carnivores. And according to the books on the subject that I’ve read, we are actually more physically adapted for an herbivore’s diet. Eat meat if you wish, but there is no logical reason to. Vegetarian diets are healthier and better for the planet. The only compelling reason to eat meat is because it tastes good. So if that’s the reason, then why NOT eat dogs? Or cats for that matter? They breed uncontrollably and are always being killed because there are too many of them. It seems they’d make a cheap, plentiful food source. So why not eat them? Obviously it’s because we maintain sufficient contact with them to recognize that they are intelligent and loving and that it would be barbaric to eat them. Vegetarians simply have the higher conscience required to extend that courtesy to other animals.
I’m a meatatarian.
otherwise known as a meathead
horray we vegans rule!
Too bad animal is so delicious.
meat is murder. tasty tasty murder.
Okay.. not judging @ all.. but simply what is the point of a chicken or a cow if not to eat it or it’s products? They are bred specifically for eating.. if we did not eat them, they would be extinct… is that better? I understand that they should be treating them as a living creature while they are alive… but what other purpose do they have?
you’re joking, right? HELLO, if humans didn’t kill so many animals we wouldn’t need to “breed” so many.
and what purpose do THEY have? let’s think about it this way: what purpose do HUMANS have? hmm? by putting so many cows on the earth they are helping to destroy our atmosphere – not to mention the millions of other hideous ways humans have contributed to the erosion of all earth’s resources. seriously, what purpose do humans have? none, really. unless you’re brimming with religion.
as a vegan, i don’t mind intelligent debates on the topic, but i have no patience for asinine arguments.
I agree with the original comment. Cows and chickens would have died off years ago if it weren’t for humans… where has anyone ever seen a wild cow or chicken? The only place they really exist is on farms and if we stopped breeding them then all of those animals would be released in an environment that can’t support them and they’d starve to death. What’s more humane…killing an animal to eat it and have a balanced diet or letting it slowly starve until it dies?
“helping to destroy our atmosphere”? You are obviously referring to the methane gas in their flatulence. I believe an entire herd of cattle would emit less detrimental stench then the idiotic crap you just uttered.
GO GREEN, by keeping your mouth shut Eloise!
We are keeping the animals alive only to brutally murder them and eat them. Do you really think that is better than not creating them in the first place? Why would you want to keep a species going that will only experience a miserable life and then end up on your plate?
I thought they were already vegan?
At least, their wedding cake was vegan…
i tried to read Skinny Bitch, but being a meat eater i had to stop.
i tried to understand this response, but being a moderately intelligent reader i had to stop.
i just made myself the most DELICIOUS cheese steak sandwich…. mmmmm
no way a bean can top that
onions peppers provolone fresh beef sooo goooood
I had a T-bone medium rare steak with hash browns for breakfast. Yummy!
i read skinny bitch, but they just seemed so smug that i couldn’t really see their argument. i felt like eating a hamburger out of spite.
i read this response but it seemed so smug couldn’t really see her argument. i felt like eating her head out of spite.
I just gave up meat two months ago. (Okay, I eat fish…) I seriously do NOT miss it at ALL. I know I won’t go “full vegan”. I eat at least 3 cups of fresh spinach a day. It’s like meaty veggies.
Anyway…don’t miss the meat.
Fish do not feel pain? I HAD a friend, who happened to be a lesbian who called herself a vegan yet she still ate chicken. I asked her the same question. “chickens do not feel pain?”. She didn’t answer, all she did was look at her fucking feet. It reminds me of Nancy Pelosi who calls herself a Catholic yets supports abortion and champions other pagan causes. A Catholic is a Catholic and a vegan is a vegan. Both have there definitions. If you practice anything different then you are something else.
and you know they feel pain? how do you know? what do want civil rights for animals? Their own constitution and bill of rights? Um . . that rabbit needs a lawyer to sue that fox who caused great bodily harm.
good for you; it’s a start. it took me many years to go “full vegan” as you put it but when i did, it was the best thing i ever did!
They are lesbians! It is obvious they do not eat meat or ingest cream!
Ummmm, they eat beef curtains.
Now THAT’s funny
Vegans. We should just eat them.
Vegans only eat each other apparently.
I grew up in a hippy lacto-ovo vegetarian household, didnt even taste meat until I was 20. and despite numerous trips to the nutritionist to get them to work out balanced diets for me ( not weight loss diets, plans for fighting the fatigue I had) I coudnt keep it up -I tried meat for the first time in my life, spaghetti bolonaise in fact, and IMMEDIATELY felt better than I had my whole life.
I dont morally agree with herding animals for meat. I dont eat meat that is not organic or doesnt come from my area, which sucks because now that I live in Canada I cant get kangaroo, which was my meat of choice due to its relatively low enviromental impact.
Eat meat responsibly and watch your carbon footprint, if, like me, you must eat it at all. Props to you vegans – I wish I could be a vegan too!
I heard beer isn’t vegan ‘cos of the yeast. So I can’t do vegan.
Some beer can be vegan I think, you can check with the manufacturers.
I think Stella Artois is.. but dont rely on it.
If they’re going hardcore vegan, Portia will have to give up Botox. I think she’ll look better for it.
Haha, that’s true.
It has been my personal experience (and it’s borne up by statistics) that the farther away you live from the countryside, and therefore the centers of food production, the more likely you are to be a vegan or a vegetarian. I’m not condoning factory farms, which are horrible, but most people who have visited farms and seen livestock have no romantic illusions about the suffering of animals.
I wish that the veggies who change their diet solely to lose weight would admit it, as Ms. de Rossi did, and stop boring the rest of us with false morality.
BTW, anyone who buys into the fish-feel-pain argument for not eating fish is just steps away from the fetuses-feel-pain argument for outlawing abortion. And I’m pretty sure that most vegan/vegetarians are pro-choice.
100% pro life and have been all my (mostly) vegetarian life.
I’d like to go vegan eventually (or just try it for a while), but right now I am a college kid with no money so I pretty much live off of ramen, cereal, and frozen pizza. Vegan food is so damn expensive.
no its not. im a college vegan and i eat about $5 dollars a day of food. THEY’RE CALLED BEANS, THE CHEAPEST FOOD IN THE WORLD.
thanks Anonymous. a voice of reason among all this insanity!
Yay for vegans! :) It’s the only way to go for the animals, your health and the environment. According to UN report, raising animals for food causes more greenhouse gases than all means of transportation COMBINED! Go vegan – go Green!
I understand the greenhouse gases that are created by growing and transporting food, but that food has to be raised for everyone, inluding people that are starving all over the world. Would you rather them eat freshly grown food or gentically modified crap that is full of chemicals and preservatives making people sick? I believe in locally grown, organic foods, but if I knew that some farm donated thousands of eggs that had to be shipped out to be given to starving kids somewhere, I wouldn’t care about greenhouse gas emissions, I would care about those kids eating. We all wish we could live in a world that was eco-friendly and green; that food was plentiful, regardless of whether it’s meat or vegetables..we just don’t live in that world yet.
The thing I want to know is, why do vegans and vegetarians always want to substitute meat with things that taste like meat? If you don’t want to eat meat.. why even bother with the imitations? It’s just something I have always wondered.
I eat mainly veggies, fruits, nuts, fish and chicken. What I put into my body is not based on morals or ethical matters, I just eat what I know keeps me on a well-rounded diet in order to feel good.
many veggies and vegans choose their lifetyle for ethical and environmental reasons, and miss meat. so they get needed protein from meat substitutes.
Oh good question! Why is that? I don’t care what other people eat, to me it is personal preference. I too have switched to a diet that is mainly veggies, fruits, nuts, fish, chicken & grass fed beef in an effort to be healthier.
I wonder that question too, like soy that’s meat flavored or fake soy cheese..if you were against eating meat then why want the taste? I have the same diet as you but I eat some dairy.
Also, this is a side note. I think this was the website where a bunch of thanksgiving recipes were posted and someone didn’t know why marshmallows weren’t vegan food..it’s because marshmallows contain gelatin. Gelatin is derived from the bones, tissue, organs and intestines of animals. Jello, marshmallows, gummy bears, chewy candy, certain kinds of ice cream/cream cheese/yogurt all contain gelatin, there’s even a form of it in a lot of makeup.
silly moo; there’s no “meat flavored” soy products. meat analogs tend to be very convenient; they are quickly and easily prepared.
“if we stopped breeding them then all of those animals would be released in an environment that can’t support them and they’d starve to death.”
That argument makes me nuts. How likely is it that everyone on the planet is going to just stop eating meat and eggs and drinking milk at once? Do you really think that’s going to happen and all the farmers/ranchers everywhere will just open the barn doors one day and kick all the poor defenseless animals out? Cows and chickens and pigs exist in the numbers they do because we breed them. If we don’t need so many there won’t be so many. And are you just as worried about the large population of, say, wild deer, who starve because the environment can’t support them. What about all the tobacco plants? Gosh if everyone stopped smoking at once those poor little weeds would just wither up and die.
I eat meat but I don’t do it to keep the animals from starving to death.
Humans are omnivores. Our teeth are the way they are because they are supposed to be able to tear through flesh.
Regardless, I hate when people push their way of eating on me. I’m a meat eater and I don’t apologize for it. Give me a bloody red steak any day. But I’m not going to push meat on someone just as I would prefer they don’t push vegetarianism/veganism on me. If I want to lose weight, I’ll cut back on calories and I don’t smoke or go in the sun so my skin is pretty good. What works for some, doesn’t for others. I am able to process a bloody steak, my husband needs his well done or he gets sick and some people just can’t eat it. It’s our biological make-up.
That said, I’ve never seen a healthy looking vegan. They usually look grey and they have no sense of humour because they’ve sucked the joy out of life (by joy, I mean food).
I’ve never seen healthy looking vegan person either, unless they’re substituting protein intake adequately. They look grey to me or anemic. Have you seen raw food eaters? They look far worse.
totally ridiculous. i’ve been vegetarian then vegan since i was 14. now i’m almost 50 and i look much younger than any of my meat-eating peers or my meat-eating sister who is 3 years younger. most importantly, i’m much healthier (cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, etc).
and btw i get a lot of joy out of life and food, more than most if not all the meat eaters i know.
in these ways, i am not exceptional among the vegans i know.
Why not stop there? If they really wanted to show how humane they are, they’d stop eating anything plant-based, as well. I mean really…how do we know that corn stalks don’t suffer when they’re pulled from the ground? How do we know that a potato isn’t screaming inside when we poke it with a fork? I’m so sick of celebrities and they’re little annoying agendas and their need to share them with their audiences.
Why would anyone, and I mean anyone, care what Mr. or Mrs. Ellen eat or don’t eat? Now if you don’t mind, it’s my lunch hour and I’d really like to get back to this tasty veal burger that I’m oh-so enjoying.
there’s that asinine argument again. plants do not have a central nervous system thus they do not feel pain.
i’m so sick of meat-eaters and THEIR little annoying agendas and their need to share them with the planet.
Vegetarianism or veganism is not about counting calories – to others, it’s a way of life, a way of respecting and honoring life. Others go vegan to lose weight but whatever the reasons they have, let them be, it’s their choice.
Eat foods that will keep you healthy and be able to enjoy your life fully. It doesn’t matter if that includes meat or not, the point is you are fit and happy.
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