Mike Tyson
A photo: Getty Images “You’re probably surprised that I’m a vegetarian?” Says Tyson. Yes, Mike, looking at you, people think you're eating steak and blood for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But, contrary to popular belief, the famous boxer is not required to be in shape. But, by the way, Mike is the owner of world records, which nobody has managed to beat so far. In order to give up meat, the athlete encouraged the love of pigeons. Yes, it is hard to have those you love! Tyson believes that these birds have the biggest heart, and in protecting the pigeons, the boxer first got involved in a fight. A new lifestyle led Tyson and to new ideas for him. He was so imbued with the philosophy of vegetarianism that he created his own project on the AnimalPlanet channel. Is it hard to imagine that this same guy who bit his ears off his rivals and threatened to eat their children for dinner? Now, Mike has a “simpler” meal - vegetable salad and smoothies. However, besides the beautiful version of coming to vegetarianism, Tyson also had much more tragic motives for rethinking his life. After leaving professional boxing, he grew stout from 98 kg to 160, and soon his four-year-old daughter died tragically. “I didn’t want to live, I felt that I was dying, both morally and physically,” confessed boxer Oprah Winfrey. As a boxer says, vegetarianism literally breathed life into him and also turned to other values: nothing else that can make me angry. No meat I want to be a good person, and to be much more difficult than a good boxer. ”By the way, another athlete, famous bodybuilder Bill Pearl, did not eat meat or fish to“ build ”his body, which, by the way, became a real legend . Only the title “Mr. Universe” was assigned to him several times. Bill is the author of six books on bodybuilding and fitness. The protein found in meat Pearl proposes replacing pulses, dairy products and eggs: “People believe that meat and fish are the basis for building muscle. I took and broke this myth. ”
Paul McCartney
Photo:Getty ImagesPaul is perhaps one of the most famous vegetarians among celebrities. He is the one who said: "If meat processing plants had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." Together with his wife Linda, he has been practicing vegetarianism for three decades. "Don't eat anything that can't move" is the musician's motto. Paul and Linda gave up meat by chance. They were having lunch on a farm in Scotland. They had lamb for lunch, and there were exactly the same lambs grazing nearby. The comparison struck the couple so much that they decided to give up meat. Later, they made a comparison and found out that the protein necessary for the body is found not only in meat. "Usually for lunch we had chops with fried potatoes or steak with peas," says Paul. - This is how I have eaten all my life. When we became vegetarians, Linda gradually began to replace meat dishes with cheese pies or spaghetti. She also came up with various vegetarian dishes herself. Soon we stopped noticing that we were not eating meat. After a while, we discovered that supermarkets sell a large number of vegetarian dishes ready to eat. Since then, we have no problems with what to cook for lunch. We just eat, for example, vegetarian sausages with tomato seasoning and eggs."
Brad Pitt
Photo: Getty Images The actor is totally against meat. By the way, but his legitimate wife Angelina is not averse to feast on beefsteak. Because of this, there are even disputes in the family - the actress says that she was a vegetarian and this almost killed her. “I didn't get enough food,” says Jolie. But Brad is firmly on his own - they say that he can not even watch how someone eats meat products. In general, the spirit can not stand it. As for the education of children, the couple does not adhere to a single "meat" policy By the way, perhaps it was vegetarianism that inspired Pitt to cook - the actor began experimenting in the kitchen. Still, when the wife is a meat eater! For example, Jamie Oliver, a famous British chef, taught his friend Brad several recipes, of course, vegetarian.
Natalie Portman
Photo:Getty ImagesThe girl became a vegetarian at the age of 8. The reason for this was a kind of trauma. At this young age, the future star saw a demonstration of a surgical laser on a chicken during a medical conference, which she attended with her father. Since then, Natalie stopped eating meat, and with age, she gave up all animal products. This means that Portman is a strict vegetarian, that is, a vegan. The actress made an exception only during pregnancy - and then she began to eat only eggs and butter. The artist explained this by the fact that she felt that these products were necessary for the child. Natalie fights for animal rights in other ways: she does not wear leather and fur and even released her own collection of clothes made from artificial materials. By the way, the popular actress is the owner of not only an Oscar, but also a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard University.
Jared Leto
A photo: Getty Images In their years, the actor and musician looks about 30 years old. Well, see for yourself! Maybe genes, and maybe the fact that for more than 20 years he has been a strict vegan. By the way, Jared himself sees the reason for his unfading beauty in a healthy lifestyle. And even alcohol is not about him! As the actor says, he has many flaws, but not love for alcohol. “There was a time when we sacrificed goats before the show, but since all members of the 30 Seconds to Mars group became vegans, we replaced them with tofu,” says Leto. By the way, PETA, the world's largest animal protection organization, recognized the actor as the sexiest vegetarian in the world. It is interesting that in order to get used to the role in the Alexander film, the actor agreed to eat tuna for a while.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Photo:Getty ImagesThe Hollywood actor has long been famous for his actions in support of animals - he founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare. And Leo supports the cause not only with millions, but also with his own example. DiCaprio is a vegetarian. According to him, he loved animals since childhood, and all the suffering over them caused him deep compassion. Leo grew up, and nothing has changed - now he is one of the most ardent defenders of animals. By the way, out of his love for living creatures, the actor wanted to become an oceanographer, but, apparently, he realized in time that only Hollywood fees would bring real help, and went into acting. However, Leonardo also managed to make documentaries about environmental problems - "Global Warning" and "Planet Water". The artist also bought an island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Belize, to create an eco-resort there. On this 42-hectare island, Leonardo will build villas with private beaches for wealthy ecotourism enthusiasts who want to escape the city noise and be alone with the paradise nature. The actor's motto in life is: "There is something more important in life than me."
Moby
A photo: Getty Images A famous musician claims to be a vegetarian since the 1980s. “You could look the animal in the eyes and tell him:“ My appetite is more important than your suffering? ”Says Mobi. By the way, he does not condemn meat eaters, but, unlike other well-known ideas, he very convincingly explains his choice. For example, Mobi even made a list of reasons why he is a vegetarian. Here are a few of them. I love animals and am convinced that a vegetarian diet reduces their suffering. Animals are sensitive creatures with their own will and desires; therefore, it is extremely unjust to subject them to violence only because we can do it. Medicine has accumulated enough evidence to show that a diet focused on animal products has a negative effect on human health. As it has been repeatedly proven, it contributes to the appearance of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, causes obesity, impotence, diabetes, etc. A vegetarian diet is more cost effective than an animal based diet. By this I mean the fact that you can feed more people with simple grain than by feeding the same grain to livestock and then, after slaughtering the livestock, feed them with meat. In a world where a mass of people are still dying of hunger, it is criminal to use grain to fatten livestock, and not to save the lives of the hungry.5. Fattening livestock on farms causes significant harm to the environment. So, waste from farms often get into sewage, poisoning drinking water and polluting nearby reservoirs - lakes, rivers, streams and even seas.
Thomas Edison
Photo: Getty ImagesYes, and him.By the way, the brilliant American inventor is the author of 1093 patents in the USA and 3000 in other countries, no other person has received such a number. The scientist explained his position as follows: "I am a vegetarian and an opponent of alcohol because I can find a better use for my mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
A photo: Getty Images You'd be surprised, but in the Middle Ages, meat-eating was not so common either. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, from childhood was a staunch vegetarian. “From an early age I avoided eating meat and believe that the time will come when people like me will look at killing an animal the way they are now looking at killing a human. If a person seeks freedom, why does he keep birds and animals in cages? Man is truly the king of the beasts, for he cruelly exterminates them. We live by killing others. We are walking cemeteries! ”- such an entry in the diaries of the artist and thinker has been preserved to this day.
Lev Tolstoy
Photo:Getty ImagesThe writer became a vegetarian at the age of 50. The change in lifestyle was primarily due to the fact that Tolstoy continued to engage in philosophical searches. Incidentally, it was during this period that Leo Nikolayevich wrote Anna Karenina, which traces the narrative line about morality and ethics of human relations. The impetus for giving up meat, as often happens, was an incident when Tolstoy visited a slaughterhouse in Tula. What he saw so shocked the writer that he could not forgive himself for a long time for not stopping the butcher who first killed a bull in front of his eyes and then skinned it. Tolstoy was indelibly impressed by the fact that after the murder the animal's body was still pulsating, and peas of tears rolled down from its eyes. Later, Lev Nikolaevich systematically studied the issue, and already in his creative works he expressed the idea that the meaning and main principle of vegetarianism lies in the absence of any violence. “So, the large dining table of the Tolstoy family was divided into two halves. Eyewitnesses could observe the following picture. At the head of the table sat Sofia Andreyevna Tolstaya, who did not share the views on vegetarianism. To the right of Sofia Andreyevna sat Lev Nikolayevich and with him those who did not eat meat. And on that side of the table, vegetarian dishes were served. In Sofia Andreyevna’s room, a small book was preserved in which she wrote down the menu for the cook. The vegetarian dishes were as follows: cabbage soup, potato soup, various porridges - buckwheat, semolina, mushroom broth or milk. As Tolstoy wrote in one of his letters on the topic of nutrition, he ate oatmeal twice a day - hot oatmeal. “Here you can also find krupenik, stuffed cabbage head, tomato salad, and dumplings with eggs, onions and rice,” says Zinaida Mikhailovna Bogacheva, a research associate at the Yasnaya Polyana Museum-Estate of L.N. Tolstoy.
