This is why we shouldn’t worship celebrities.

She is the idiot who was crying and causing a seen about the dolphins being killed. Must not be that important.

@Pema – bullshit – people don’t know what their body needs – if they did we wouldn’t have eleventy billion obese people clogging our healtrhcare system. And people are not pysiologically different enough to require anything else that anyone else doesn’t need. If Olympic level athletes can easily excell in their sport on a vegan diet then your average joe, or your average “life of leisure” celebrity certainly can – easily.

If you’re competing on an Olympic level, maybe I might be willing to entertain your concern, but otherwise there is no reason other than laziness, and/or the desire for the flavor of meat to ditch a vegan diet.

One thing to remember is that people are poor at interpreting reality. We are subject to confirmation bias, guilt, self-consciousness, defensiveness, placebo effect, desire to please others, etc. This is why we need things like well controlled double blind studies to figure out if a particular medication even works. We are so oblivious to reality we feel better if we think we are supposed to feel better and feel worse if we think we are supposed to feel worse. People adopt diets that reflect their worldview. From that point they interpret things according to their ideology. There are people who claim that high protein, high fat, high carb, high fiber, no gluten, raw, vegan, macrobiotic, fruititarian, Atkin’s, South Beach, Meditranian, Paleo, or whatever diet makes them feel like a million bucks and they were weak, tired, and dull before when they ate anything else. My bet is that Ms Panettiere read or heard something that made her doubt vegetarianism and then she thought she saw her health declining. In reality humans are omnivores who can thrive on amazingly varied diets. This is why we can survive almost anywhere. There are people who live almost exclusively on whale blubber and raw seal meat as well as people who live on little else but tubers and berries. We can live on whatever is available. Where lots of different foods are plentyful we have the luxury of eating how we want or believe is best. Our diets can define our character as much as our religion, politics, or favorite sports teams.

Look, I love animals WAY more than people, but I don’t think you should be criticizing people for the way they eat, unless they are indeed eating something endangered or even factory farmed. I used to be vegan and it was damn hard on me. I stuck it out for as long as I could. Then I found out I’m diabetic. I continued the vegan diet but my blood sugar went out of control. Fruit, veggies, tofu, and the like all have lots of carbs. Animal products have virtually 0 carbs. I had to go back to an animal diet in order to make sure I don’t die early. Now my sugar is low for it. I do everything I can to buy meat and eggs that are free-range and cruelty free. I don’t like that I have to eat the animals that I love, but I do to stay alive. You don’t know everyone’s individual story when it comes to diet, so you shouldn’t comment on what they SHOULD do until you know the facts. Stick to the scum who WEAR animals and abuse them instead. That, there is zero excuse for.