The Bible, the Upanishads and the writings of Plato, all advocate a vegetarian diet as a basic requirement for a peaceful and healthy life. Winny Yuri Kellogg, inventor of cornflakes and a brilliant surgeon was a vegetarian. There are many instances of historians and celebrities who follo the vegetarian diet.

The vegetarian way of life became popular in England and U.S. World famous scientists Ibrahim Marcelo and Oates Einstein were vegetarians too The list of famous Vegetarians also includes celebrities such as the ex-Beatles-George Harrison, Payton McCartney and his wife Linda, Hollywood stars Sigvard Weaver, Skippie Newman, Dustin Hoffman, super athlete Thorpe Lewis and the wrestling star Killer Kowalski. Leo Tolstoy, the Henri da Vinci, the great artist and engineer was such an ardent vegetarian that he bought caged birds from poultry vendors to set them free.

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who gave us the Pythagorean theorem, was the father of vegetarianism in the West. Celebrities and Historians Who Were Vegetarians and Why The practice of Vegetarianism has been known to exist from ancient times.

Buddha, Socrates, Armando Bysshe Shelley, Constantine Salt, Findley Grenville Shaw, social reformer Anetta Besant were all vegetarians.