Tobey Maguire Turned Natalie Portman Vegan. For Now.
Filed under: animals, food & drink — Michael d'Estries @ 12:13 pm
March 6th 2008
In our ever-continuing, long-winded debate over Natalie Portman’s food philosophy, we’ve finally received word from the actress herself that she is in fact a vegan. She’s been one for about the past month. And Tobey Maguire is to blame.
With our article yesterday on the webslinger’s demands that no one enter his home with leather accessories of any kind, having Maguire be an ambassador of veganism (not be confused with Jerry Mcguire’s “Ambassador of Quan”) makes sense. As we mentioned earlier, Portman did not originally consider going vegan with food (she’s long been against buying clothing made with any animal products) because as she said, “It’s really hard for traveling, especially if you want to maintain your protein levels.” Which of course, several vegans in the comments took to task saying that it was entirely easy and possible. Here’s what Portman said in a recent interview with Marie Claire:
“She grabs an energy bar from the display basket and studies the contents of the label. She wonders if the energy bar contains milk. That’s Tobey’s fault. For the past ten days she’s gone from being vegetarian to vegan. ‘I was around Tobey Maguire in rehearsals [for upcoming film Brothers] and he’s vegan and I was, like, this is nice. I’m honest about caring about animals. You know, eggs and milk products, there’s a lot of animal discomfort in that, too. I don’t know if it’s a permanent thing.’
So, there you have it. Whether she’s vegan one day or vegetarian the next, I think we can agree that as an individual the world could use more people just like her. But seriously, what do you think?
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Tagged: natalie portman, tobey maguire
i sure hope that Tobey doesn’t dictate every actor he works with to become vegan!
I don’t want to pick any of the answers in that poll!
My answer is “She should pick VEGAN and stick with it!”
I love Natalie, I hope she sticks to it.
I agree with Jaxin.
Do these poll results indicate that there are many of the people that frequent this site are NOT vegan? How can you be environmentally-friendly and not be vegan?
Apologies for the typos
bnh, where does is say that Tobey “dictated” to Natalie? She probably just asked him about it and he just answered her questions and she thought it made sense. There’s a difference between “dictating” and asking questions and having a conversation. I’ve noticed that once a person explains to somebody where factory-farmed eggs and dairy actually come from, most people are appalled. The cows are given loads of synthetic hormones and antibiotics so that they produce many times more milk than they naturally should, and that is not only cruel to them but unhealthy for us. The hormones given to cows have been linked with higher cancer rates. And eggs typically come from hens that have been kept in cages so small they can’t even spread their wings.
i hope she stays vegan, it goes well with her beauty and intelligence. and kudos to toby as well!
Dearies, even if egg laying hens and dairy cows had happy lives… well that is IMPOSSIBLE.
The dairy industry could not ethically exist without the beef industry. There would be too many males -think about it.
Same with eggs. So even if your eggs come from your mates pet hen, you’re still contributing, because that couldn’t have happened if the chicken industry didn’t exist.
Egg laying hens are slaughtered at 72 weeks anyway as after this age their eggs are less likely to be perfect.
i sure hope that Tobey doesn’t dictate every actor he works with to become vegan!
Really? Because I hope he DOES. There is nothing wrong with promoting compassion.
Once you go vegan, you learn to stay vegan when you try to go back to your old ways.