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“Being brought up on an organic farm and having a different way of looking at life comes into everything that I do. From day one I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. What we hope to do is to isolate out a mill to just start the process, one that we will work with on a daily basis. The whole idea of improving one’s environmental footprint in this industry is you have to work with people.”

—Stella McCartney to Vanity Fair, on the issue of producing environmentally conscious clothing. Stella’s brand has recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Councils’ “Clean By Design” a program meant to highlight ways to reduce pollution and make the most of energy resources at one of her clothing mills.

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“I respectfully request you to ensure that vegan meals are available to Ms. Alekhina – and all prisoners. Regardless of the trial and its outcome, I’m sure you can agree that everyone has the right to show compassion and refrain from harming animals by being vegan.”

—Alicia Silverstone, in a letter to Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, asking that Pussy Riot band member Maria Alekhina be given the vegan food she requested. Alekhina has spent several months in jail after being charged with “hooliganism,” in an act involving a controversial performance at a church. The musician has complained of several medical complications that have resulted from the inadequate nutrition the jail has provided in its meals.

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“I love to encourage people to rescue animals. All things animal rights is really where my heart is. I’ve been a passionate vegan for three years. Anything from animal out of my diet. Same thing goes with my clothes and everything else. I really got into it because I love animals, and then it turned out it’s actually the healthiest for us, too.”

—Steve-O, who’s still making people laugh with his stand-up comedy shows that don’t involve using animals as props.

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“The meals children eat at school … are often high in saturated fat and lacking in fruits and vegetables. You can’t make it to the Olympics without making wise food choices.”

—Hope Solo, in a letter to Congress back in 2010, urging it to pass the Healthy School Meals Act. Solo helped the U.S. Women’s Soccer team bring home a Gold this year at the London Olympic games.

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“It’s the clean lifestyle. I’m a vegan and I work out. That’s pretty much it, really. If you keep the juices flowing, if you keep the blood flowing and you keep active and don’t put poison in your system, you can be rewarded. There’s no silver bullet or magic pill. It’s just looking after yourself.”

—Phil Collen from Def Leppard in an interview with Penn Live.

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“Once, we had the horse-drawn carriage, and then we had the horseless carriage, and then we had the automobile. I’m firmly convinced we’re going to go from beef and chicken products that are animal in origin to those that are made with plants — and at some point in the future you’ll walk down the aisle of the supermarket and ask for beef and chicken, and like the automobile has no relationship to the horse, what you get will have nothing to do with animals.”

—Ethan Brown, founder of Beyond Meat, a new meat analogue available at natural foods stores like Whole Foods. Some people, like Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, say the product is so close to meat it’s almost scary. Stone said of his experience: “My first reaction was, if I was given this in a restaurant, I’d get the waiter to come over and ask if he’d accidentally given us real chicken.”

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“Everybody is a nutritionist now and they’re an expert on protein. Every day, every single day somebody knows something new to do. I just smile and say, ‘OK.’ “I didn’t just blindly stop eating meat. I know what I’m doing.”

—Arian Foster, on the fact that he didn’t wake up yesterday and decide to trade beef for a steady diet of blueberries. He woke up a long time ago and realized eating cows wasn’t cool. And that blueberries need to be paired with a protein-rich non-dairy beverage like soy milk in a smoothie.

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“Eight years ago, I read [Eric Schlosser’s] Fast Food Nation. It brought my attention to the gigantic machine that abuses animals and the people who work in the industry. And my dad was vegetarian, so I didn’t grow up with the stigma people attach to it: that you’ll become anemic, or have trouble walking up steps.”

—Seamus Dever, actor who plays detective Kevin Ryan in the ABC series Castle, in an interview published in the September 2012 issue of Vegetarian Times.

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