Alicia Silverstone, everyone's favorite vegan, recently posted a blurb on The Kind Life about vegan business leaders. In it she claimed that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is vegan. Having just seen the *excellent* movie, The Social Network, I looked into it and, sadly, it appears Mark is not only not vegan, but that he's also fond of bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Mark, say it ain't so!
The good news is that there are indeed some high-flyin' business leaders who are either vegan "flirts" or bona fide V Club members. Here's a quick list and I'll add to it as I learn of more:
- Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, one of my absolute favorite time-wasting social platforms. Biz is not only vegan but he boasts bar-none the coolest name among the social media/biz tech glitterati. Moreover, Biz sometimes blogs about veganism on his personal blog. Rock it, Biz.
- Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, maker of the only socially acceptable line of computers, phones and music/video players. I'm typing this very post from my ultra-bad-ass-and-nearly-five-years-old MacBook. I salute you, Steve.
- John Mackey, the Whole Foods guy (who frankly I don't have the warm and fuzzies for given his rant about healthcare reform), and his general Libertarian/Republican political views that are so at odds with my own. Still, I applaud is efforts to start eliminating the crappy "food" from Whole Foods shelves and his commitment to a healthy, kind plant-based diet.
There are many other high-flying business leaders rumored to be vegan/vegetarian or at least experimenting with a mostly plant-based diet, such as Disney's Michael Eisner and Ford's Bill Ford. And, of course, Bill Clinton recently caused a major stir when he decided to adopt a "mostly vegan" diet to experience for himself the healing, restorative and lasting health effects of eatin' green. Go Bill!
Anyone know of other verified vegan CEOs that I can add to the list?
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