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.
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
Hip-hop producer, writer, collaborator and hitmaker Jermaine Dupri spent his Saturday over the weekend serving vegan Thanksgiving meals to families and individuals in need in his hometown of Atlanta. Dupri, who has worked with Mariah Carey, Usher, Boyz II Men and Destiny's Child, early on, is a vegan who promotes the lifestyle, encouraging fans to "Feel the beets
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Whether you're on day five or year five of your plant-based journey, a new diet or vow to try to eat vegan can be daunting. It's natural to flip through a cookbook of thousands of beautiful recipes, slide a bookmark into the page you find most desirable, and then feel completely overwhelmed. Sometime...
There's a million reasons to love Billie Eilish, but her devotion to saving the planet is why we adore her. From day one, Billie has used her fame to make a difference in the fight against climate change and get her fans to get on board too.
Harley Quinn Smith made her big-screen debut at the tender age of one, in dad Kevin Smith's cult flick, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. These days, though, the 20-year-old vegan actress is paving her own way with star-making performances opposite Molly Ringwald in All These Small Things and Quentin Tarantino's star-studded blockbuster Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, alongside Brad Pitt, Margot Rob
Mayim Bialik is a life-long vegan, has a vegan cookbook, a vegan restaurant in Downtown LA, and a knack for getting other people to eat healthy vegan food. We loved her in the '90s TV show Blossom, and in the long-running The Big Bang Theory, and now we love her for her enthusiasm for getting people on board with her plant-based approach to meals. Here she shares her day...
Pop Quiz: Is Paul Rudd Vegan? Or plant-based? The world of plant-based eaters and followers started wondering when, on October 17th, the star of This is 40 and the new show Living With Yourself, which debuts on Netflix this week, showed up on the popular "talk" show Hot Ones and asked for cauliflower wings instead of the usual chicken.
The show's...