Sports & Misc

Scott Jurek - Course record holder and consecutive seven-time champion of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run; course record holder and defending two-time champion of the Badwater Ultramarathon; the first US runner ever to win Greece's famed 246K Spartathlon.

Tony La Russa

OrganicAthlete Launches Elite Vegan Cycling Team - Sept 2006

Drunovsek -- Dr. Janez Drunovsek, President of Slovenia, About Vegetarianism and Animal Rights

Bodybuilder Williams - Vegan, video interview

Vegan Body Building - Aug. 2006

McGwire -- Home Run king Mark McGwire. Donated money to Animal Rescue Foundation

Members of Vegan Body Builders such as Kenneth Williams, ex champion vegan weightlifter now sports nutritionist Gareth Zeal, UK champion savate kickboxer James Southwood, vegan triathlete Brendan Brazier and a host of other vegan athletes prove that a plant based diet can provide both power and strength to competition standards.

Emperor Asoka -- He ruled India from 265-238 B.C. and outlawed all killing, including slaughtering of animals for food.

Politics -- more on politics and politicians

Tony La Russa; Manager of St. Louis Cardinals

James Donaldson; Dallas Mavericks

Larry Bird; Coach Indiana Pacers -- told Esquire magazine he stopped hunting because "I just don't want to kill anything anymore." c/o Indaina Pacers, 300 Market St. Indianapolis, IN 46204.

Mo Vaughn; Boston Red Sox -- "I don't believe in hunting. Give the animals a gun, and then maybe I'd hunt." c/o Anaheim Angels, Anaheim, CA.

Vegetarians and Vegans

Carl Lewis (Olympic sprinter). 3 minute video on being vegan.
Edwin Moses
Martina Navratilova

Science

Carl Jung, famous psychologist, left the study of medicine because he found vivisection "barbarous, horrible, and most of all superfluous."

Christian Barnard, "I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures."

Dr. Werner Hartinger, Chief Surgeon, West Germany, 1988. "Vivisection is barbaric, useless, and a hindrance to scientific progress."

Dr. Vernon Coleman, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK. "...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year."

Jane Goodall, Primatologist
Frank Cullen, New England Anti Vivisection Society
Tom Regan, Professor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University
Shirley McGreal, International Primate Protection League
Jean Goldenberg/Bob and Loretta Hirsch, Washington Humane Society
Patrice Green/Ann Smart, R.N.s, National Association of Nurses Against Vivisection

Vegetarians and Vegans

Leonardo Da Vinci
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein (certainly supported, but practiced?)
Sir Isaac Newton
Pythagorus
Nikola Tesla

Link to an MS Excel spreadsheet (.xls) with 3 lists of Vegetarian celebrities
Vegetarians Listed by first name