Plant-based eating is gaining momentum around the world
and meat-free singers are leading the trend.
From Stevie Wonder to Moby.
A number of performers abstain from eating animals.
Here are 10 plant-based musicians that have gone
from singing on beats to eating beets.
Number one.
Ariana Grande.
Ariana Grande's saying Thank You, Next to meat and dairy.
The singer songwriter transitioned
to a plant-based diet in 2013.
She shared the news on Facebook writing,
"I've eaten organically
since I was little and always kept meat minimal
but yesterday marked my first day
as a hundred percent vegan! Joyous day!"
She regularly shares her plant-based meals
on social media and is a big fan of fresh fruits.
- Number two Lizzo.
Three time Grammy award-winning singer Lizzo
is feeling good as hell on a plant-based diet.
In June, after sharing many tasty vegan recipes
on her tik tok,
Lizzo told her then nearly 9 million followers
that she is vegan.
- So being plant-based and vegan has been pretty easy
except for when I am hung over and there we have it.
It's a really ugly, but delicious scramble and some bacon.
- Number three.
Billie Eilish. Being vegan is all Billie Eilish ever wanted.
The superstar ditched meat and dairy in 2014.
In a blog post, she shared that
one of the reasons she made the switch was
because she loved animals.
She wrote, "there's no point in creating something
out of an animal when the animal is already there
leave animals alone."
- Okay, so I'm vegan.
So I don't, I don't with the,
- With the cricket, with the cricket lollipops
why would you eat an animal when you could eat some chips?
- Number four, Will.I.Am
Will.I.Am is apparently a fan of black-eyed peas.
The rapper went vegan in 2017 after being diagnosed
with high blood pressure and cholesterol.
During a podcast with the Huffington post founder,
Arianna Huffington,
the rapper said going vegan changed his life.
- Number five
Paul McCartney.
you can find rock and roll legend Paul McCartney
in strawberry fields forever.
The former Beatles front man has been meat-free since 1975.
- It's a life.
And I don't see why I shouldn't
allow that animal to have that life
when I don't need to take it.
- McCartney has regularly spoken
out against eating animals.
In 2009, he, along with his daughters,
Mary and Stella launched the Meat-free Monday campaign
to encourage people to consume less meat.
He and his daughters also made a short film
about the impact of animal agriculture on the planet.
- One day without eating animal products could
have a huge impact in helping maintain
that delicate pulse that sustains us all.
- The documentary also featured vegan actors, Emma Stone
and Woody Harrelson.
Number six, Rza.
Member of the Wu Tang clan Rza thinks veganism leads
to a better tomorrow.
In an ad for animal rights organization, PETA, the rapper
and longtime vegan said animals just want to live.
- I don't need a dead animal.
I'm quite sure they did not want to be on my plate.
- Rza even launched his own vegan clothing line,
36 chambers.
Number seven, Leona Lewis.
It's no secret that Bleeding Love singer
Leona Lewis loves animals.
- As some of you might already know.
I'm a long time animal lover and animal activist.
- Lewis has teamed up
with many animal rights organizations over the years,
including Farm Sanctuary and Humane Society International
for various anti animal cruelty campaigns.
And she's been meat-free for much of her life.
- Not eat meat one day a week
then stretch it to two days and then so on and so on.
- Number eight, Stevie Wonder.
Stevie wonder, just called to say
he loves eating plant-based.
The singer songwriter
and record producer went vegan in 2014
for environmental and health reasons.
On a 2015 segment of James Corden's Carpool Karaoke,
The duo also broke into song about Wonder's eating habits.
- I like not eating meat.
Go vegan, go vegan, go vegan, go vegan.
- Number nine, Mya.
When long-time vegetarian, Mya went vegan,
the singer experienced a world of benefit.
- Veganism started off as a willpower challenge for me
from vegetarianism.
- And now she says she is vegan for life.
The R and B artists credits her plant-based diet
for helping her beat anemia.
- Some of the changes that I've experienced being vegan.
I'm no longer anemic.
I lost 30 pounds and I just have clarity.
Like I mentioned before.
- Number 10, Moby.
Musician Moby isn't quiet about his animal rights activism
and vegan lifestyle.
After all the artist has a vegan for life tattoo
on his neck, he wrote on Instagram, "I've been a vegan
for almost 32 years.
So getting this tattoo seemed like a pretty safe bet."
In 2015, Moby opened his own vegan restaurant, Little Pine,
which donates a hundred percent of its profits to charity
specifically animal welfare organizations.
- We live in a world where veganism is still
and animal rights is such a tiny part
of the way in which people orient themselves
towards being alive and eating and living
and I know that if humanity survives,
at some point,
we will live in a vegan world because it just makes sense.
- That's it for today,
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