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The contest started in 2001 with just a female vegetarian picked, but in 2002, PETA added a male recipient. Throughout the years, a mixture of actors and musicians have picked up the award but in 2003, George W. Bush’s niece, Lauren Bush, was one of the first non-celebs to win. The reasons why these celebrities gave up meat varies. Some of them watched an eye-opening documentary and then changed their mind, others realized a healthier lifestyle made their skin look better, and a couple of them decided from a young age it was the moral path to take.
9. NATALIE PORTMAN – Actress
One of the most famous non-meat eating celebs, Natalie Portman became a vegetarian at the young age of eight, but became a vegan in 2009 when she read Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, Eating Animals. “Perhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities,” she said, “but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable.
