Alicia Silverstone went vegan because she couldn’t eat her dogs
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Alicia Silverstone has revealed she became a vegan after deciding she could never eat her pet dogs.
The Clueless star said she used to eat meat, but the prospect of tucking into her canines turned her off eating ANY kind of animal.
She said: “I have three dogs. One day I realised if I wouldn’t eat my dogs, why eat any animals, any meat? Why’s a baby cow different from a dog?
“They have the same joys, same pain.
“At the time I was using an asthma inhaler, suffering with acne, getting allergy shots, on antibiotics.”
She said she became a vegan in 1998 after going to an animal rights’ meeting.
Alicia, 33, told a US newspaper: “You can’t eat bad food. You must understand which food’s good for your body. So I changed my diet. Immediately my weight stabilized, I had more energy, the whites of my eyes grew whiter, nails got strong, skin cleared, medications went down. I healed myself.”
She has since written a book about her experiences called The Kind Diet.