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I'm confused why Cynthia singled out cows as something that people who eat meat should make sure is raised humanely. Birds and pigs are extremely intelligent beings and chickens are probably the most abused animals in the industry. I was just confused about that statement.

I also agree that most of these people never actually cook their own food. I think Natalie Portman's reason was absurd and it sounds like Drew Barrymore's reason was equally as absurd. Not sure about Ginnifer Goodwin, but that really saddens me because she seemed like such a good advocate. They are probably making up the health reason thing about Natalie Portman so that they have something against vegans even though she has never said that health was the reason. I can't imagine ever going back to eating meat, but to each their own I suppose.

I agree that it is their lives, but we come on this site and talk about other people's reactions to vegan diets all the time even when they are not celebs. I would have been offended by anyone saying what Ginnifer Goodwin said about getting cheese into a vegan's life if they are against it. I don't care what they do, but they don't have to make light of something for which they had previously been a huge advocate.

It would probably be bad publicity for a celeb who has been vegan for abit to be spotted just eating meat dishes because there too lazy to make it work. Its easier to say a health issue happened(not saying it isnt the case but i know many outgoing vegans who do the same).

In a way i guess it cant be easy when most restaurants have no vegan and barely any veggie options. Like i say most of these celebs rarely if ever eat at home so they have to eat whats on offer.

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I don't think the point here is about changing our own minds about veg*nism,or how our minds might be changes, it's about how high profile vegans quitting affects us because of others' reactions. When Natalie Portman's article was first released I had at least two people, who I never talked to about my veganism, say something to me about it. Because they are high profile, it gives others ideas, and gives them things to try and argue with veg*ns about.

And like Laura, I also care what is said publically about veganism. If you research people who go back to omni ways, not high profile vegans necessarily, but bloggers and other people who have some kind of public connection, a lot of them go all out and renounce everything they previously claimed to have believed and start trashing veganism and claiming it's not healthy and all sorts of stuff (seems kind of what like Ginnifer Goodwin is doing, especially trying to get her family to change back). That affects the cause (for those of us who follow veg*nism for ethical or environmental reasons), and it also affects trying to get out the knowledge that a plant-based diet is actually very healthy. So while what one celebrity does or does not do has no effect on my own decisions, it does affect the public - after all, they wouldn't be celebrities without the public.

Last time I checked vegeterians do not eat meat....I was referring to animal products ie. milk, cheese, and so forth. I never said meat eaters. Obviously, if someone chooses to be a vegeterian I meant they should eat animal products (including eggs) that are from animals raised in a humane way. I realize that it is difficult to come by, but possible. Yes, cows are not the only intellegent animals out there, I didn't think I had to list every single one. I assumed everyone was already aware...