Vegetarian and Vegan Elite of the World

[elainevdw]

A fun list I found via StumbleUpon: Vegetarian and Vegan Elite of the World

Rabindranath Tagore, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Sir C. V. Raman, Albert Schweitzer, and about 700 more.

[Baltar]

Interesting list, although they incorrectly put Steve Jobs in there. The Wikipedia article on him says: "Jobs is not a vegetarian or vegan as is often claimed. Although he does not eat mammalian meat, he reportedly eats fish from time to time. This is known as pescetarianism."

[Cron]

I've been seeing these lists for over 25 years.

They are often apochryphl.

People change back, the word "vegetarian" is used incorrectly or the researcher gets it wrong.

Ryn Berry is a scholar on veg*sm and writes quality books with solid information. If you are into who is who of real vegetarianism or the history you probably will not find more reliable and well written information than his:

Rynn Berry

[Mr.Mustache]

Oh, brother. I bet not even half of those "elite" people were vegetarian or vegan. This always happens, people making a bullshit list of all the successful people who were polyphasic, vegan, knew about the "secret" etc.

[Amadeus]

It has Jesus Christ as a vegetarian or vegan. You can't tell me for one second that Jesus didn't eat fish.

[joey m]

Amadeus -- Just food for thought.

History of Vegetarianism - Was Christ a Vegetarian?

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the above link, but interesting reading anyway.

Best,
Joey

[gberardi]

Originally Posted by Amadeus

It has Jesus Christ as a vegetarian or vegan. You can't tell me for one second that Jesus didn't eat fish.

I'm no Bible scholar, but I don't recall reading anything that suggests that Jesus actually ate any fish. He may have used it to feed others, but eat it Himself? B-)

[빈센트]

Yet more vegan/vegetarian arrogance.

I wonder why Hitler isn't on this list.

[joey m]

Because Hitler wasn't a vegetarian/vegan. Do your homework and don't believe everything you read on the internet!

[빈센트]

Well fine, Pol Pot then.

You missed my main point which is... Veganism and "eliteness" aren't correlated. I could just as well make a list of the "elites" that ate meat. My guess is the list would be much much larger.

[joey m]

Of course it would be longer. The only point of these lists is to show that there are people who are successful and healthy who are vegetarian or vegan. I don't think there is much arrogance there.

[빈센트]

If that were the case, the word "elite" isn't necessary.

[joey m]

You are reading the title differently than I am. I do not read it as vegans are "elite," I read it as this list represents the elite of "vegans/vegetarians." Therefore, it is not meant to be comparative to anyone but vegans/vegetarians, and therefore does not have anything to do with "arrogance."

I get the feeling maybe you are reading a bit too much into the title...