Vegan Celebrities

Mena Massoud says that his Egyptian upbringing exposed him to plant-based foods from a young age, but it wasn't until five years ago that he went fully vegan. Now he's written a book, Evolving Vegan, about how to eat more vegan or plant-based dishes, complete with recipes from his favorite restaurants to make it even easier to eat this way. Evolving Vega... Read More ...

Padma Lakshmi, cookbook author and long time host of Top Chef, has a new Hulu show, Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi in which she guides viewers through diverse cuisines, from native American food in the Phoenix area to Thai food in Las Vegas. The...

Nikki Glaser's star is on the rise. You may know her as the beloved comedian who is hilarious on barbed roasts of stars like Alec Baldwin and Bruce Willis on Comedy Central and for hosting Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, also on Comedy Central, and her numerous late-night talk show appearances, where she shares her self-deprecating stories about dating, sex, and looking for love. Wat...

Whether we’ve been a full-fledged vegan for decades, plant-leaning for years thanks to our vegan college roommate, or newly on the plant-strong bandwagon, we all arrive here for different reasons. Some of us eat vegan for our health, others try a vegan diet for our waistlines, and still others go plant-based to lessen our impact on the environment. Even more of us are...

These days, we’ve all been enjoying precisely 573% more reality TV than we’re used to. Netflix’s Love Is Blind? Meet you at the pod. American Idol? We're team Dillon. Survivor? You bet we’ve been binging. Top Chef? Don’t mind if we do. But abov...

This past week, Jaden Smith's I LOVE YOU restaurant served up its first activation of 2020 in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles.

When the 77th annual Golden Globes announced it was going plant-based this year, the press was all over it. But the only person who seemed to go on the record about it was Joaquin Phoenix, who applauded the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for drawing the connection between food systems and climate change. And while we loved his sentiment, the delivery of his speech was halting and a bit meandering, laced with expletives.

This past weekend, Kate Hudson had her launch party for HappyxNature, a new clothing line made of recycled at the vegan spot Butcher's Daughter in Venice. Her pal Jen Meyer said the line "gets better and better" in the event that was covered in WWD, where I read about it and had serious FOMO. You can bu...

Dr. Michael Greger's latest book, How Not to Diet, is a long-read, but well worth it. Brimming with facts and scientific research, Dr. Greger is an unapologetic advocate of plant-based eating, and his lengthy book backs up the bias.

Here at The Beet we welcome any and all types of plant-based dieters -- for any reason or motivation --  and have made it our mission to focus on the health and wellbeing benefits of eating more plants as our first concern. Of course, eating a plant-based diet is better for the planet and for the animals that are farmed, but those reasons become personal decisions driven by values, priorities and