Vegetarian Movie Stars - Who was first?

It seems like every other Hollywood star is a vegetarian, giving up meat for health reasons or moral. Vegetarian Society now may be a long list of artists who do not eat meat, vegetarians, like Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Winslet and Natalie Portman, and pescatarians like Hillary Swank (who eat fish but not other animals).

The list of notable vegetarians read like a list of invitation to the Oscars, it is not unusual to have someone ask "Howall start? "Perhaps surprisingly, there is a new trend, but something that goes back almost 90 years when the film industry was still new.

In the early days of cinema, Mary Pickford was the biggest star in Hollywood - even more popular than his friend and business partner, Charlie Chaplin. Specializing in children and play cute little Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Lord (she was only five feet tall and had a young face), was known as "America'sSweet Heart. "- And then, because of their worldwide fame," The World's Sweetheart "

Mary had meat and fish, after reading "The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair disturbing expose of the meat industry in New York, with vivid descriptions of the slaughterhouse assembly line." It 's been too much for some visitors, "said Sinclair (which was vegetarian), and the women would stay with clenched hands and blood on their faces and the tears from herEyes. "

Pickford was not the only star in Hollywood in the early days of vegetarians. British actor George Arliss, already a popular star of American cinema theater came in 1921. At a time when vegetarianism in the West seemed strange and eccentric, was a pioneer. "It seems unlikely that many of our diseases by eating meat?" he once asked. "It 's a bad habit of eating the liver and kidneys ... and the collection of bones ... We shudder at the thoughtby cannibals, but there really a difference? "

Another great star of silent film, Gloria Swanson, would increase even after his rival Mary Pickford in a vegetarian diet. Other stars quickly tried to get into it. Marion Davies, one of the best actresses of the 1920s was a temporary vegetarian after he hosted the visiting Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, an outspoken member of the Vegetarian Society of London.

However, even though it was perhaps the first, these stars were not sofreely of their current stars such as vegetarianism. Unlike Woody Harrelson and Toni Collette, did not campaign for animal rights, or publicly extol the virtues of a vegetarian diet to remain young and thin. Stars of 80 or 90 years, are not encouraged to speak their minds in a way.

But, as Pickford was Hollywood's most popular host, would be their diet of meat, the fanzine of the sector and the figures of the day have been known (though it could have been as eccentric).The stars of today can choose from a number of vegetarian restaurants and charming cafes around Hollywood to say hello. In this way (along with many others), she was a pioneer among celebrities.