@furisdead12

1.
That may apply to food, but dead animals aren’t food.
Choosing whether or not to include apples in your diet qualifies as a personal choice which people should be allowed to have.
Choosing whether or not to include the bodies of tortured, murdered animals in your diet does not qualify as a personal choice because it directly causes the pain, suffering and death of the animals who are to be tortured and murdered so that their bodies can be included in your diet.
Here’s another way to put it:
Choosing to eat the bodies of tortured, murdered animals should be considered no more a personal choice than choosing to eat the bodies of tortured, murdered humans.
Killing and eating human beings is wrong and illegal.
Killing and eating non-human beings is also wrong and will be illegal in the not-so-distant future.

2.
It’s not an issue of conforming to what other people think you should do.
It’s an issue of not causing the unnecessary pain, suffering and death of these animals who have done absolutely nothing to deserve it.

someone, even a celebrity, is allowed to do what they want. They shouldn’t conform to what people think they should do. If they want to put something in their diet, they shouldn’t be hung for it. They are going to be criticized no matter what they do, I just think people should be focusing on their own lives and look up to someone other than a celebrity.

do you know this is a fact? Or is it just what bloggers are saying…

@furisdead12

“The price of greatness is responsibility,” –Winston Churchill

Angelina Jolie is a very popular celebrity and her public actions have a strong influence on millions of easily influenced people and she therefore needs to be especially careful about what she says & does in the public eye.

She publicly gave the impression (to these easily influenced people) that a vegan diet is nutritionally insufficient and even potentially deadly.
That was extremely irresponsible of her.
If she wants to carelessly damn her vegan diet without doing proper research, that’s fine, but she’d better be prepared to do it privately rather than publicly.

Ki-Young assumed that, because Angelina is a U.S. celebrity who can afford the best doctors and nutritionists, she must be well informed and she must have a very good reason for bringing meat back into her diet.

The actions of both Ki-Young and Angelina were irresponsible but, because so many millions of people (including many Korean celebrities) are being culturally trained to follow the lead of high-profile U.S. celebrities, and because Angelina is completely aware of this, it is Angelina whom I’m most interested in criticizing.

To be perfectly clear, I didn’t post this thread to point out that Angelina is solely to blame for Ki-Young’s actions. I posted this thread to point out that Angelina’s ignorance and irresponsibility is causing serious problems for animals both inside and outside of the U.S.

I don’t think it is Angelina’s fault. She didn’t force the singer to eat meat, it was ki-youngs own assumptions and ignorance that led to their decision. Just. Because Angelina made a choice doesn’t mean she is the cause of meat eating in the world.

Goodness it is insane how people act after a celebrity does something. I think she is making a very bad choice.

@Degu
Never heard anything about it until around March or April of this year. That’s when it started turning up on the AR forums.
Thanks for the great links! Very useful.

Nope, the rumors started in 2009 when the DailyMail (BLECH) posted this article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1200663/Angelina-Jolie-vetoes-Brad-Pitts-meat-plea-rainbow-brood.html

Then again in 2010 when the International Business Times posted this article: http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/47551/20100831/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-movie-salt.htm

@Degu
That article is from January. The rumor that he has dropped meat from his diet (or is interested in dropping meat from his diet) really started spreading a few months after that article was published. Thanks for the link though.

Gosh, can people get any stupider than this?

Brad Pitt is not vegetarian nor vegan.

From earlier this year: http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/brad-and-angelina-do-restaurant-week-at-charlie-palmer-steak.php

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by  Jessica.

Absolutely crazy. Meat will be bad for the baby!

wow. this is the dumbest thing i have heard all day :/

Sad that people need celebrities in order to decide how to eat.

@RobertMair
The rumor is that Brad Pitt adheres to a vegan diet but, earlier this year, I searched for solid evidence to support this rumor and couldn’t find any.
Keep in mind that whenever a celebrity states that they have switched to a vegetarian/vegan diet, the press coverage is minimal (or non-existent), but whenever they state that they are giving up on their vegetarian/vegan diet, the press coverage is huge (most likely the work of the meat & dairy industry combined with the public’s desire to feel less guilty about their meat eating).
So, yeah, the rumor may very well be true.