Throughout history, more than a few famous people were veget…

Throughout history, more than a few famous people were vegetarians. For example, Pythagoras, the famous Greek mathematician who lived in the fifth century B.C., kept to a simple diet of bread, honey, and vegetables. Plato and Aristotle were also vegetarians. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley became a convert to vegetarianism at twenty-one and later wrote a pamphlet in its defense. And Count Tolstoi, the Russian author famous for War and Peace, not only ate no animals; he would eat no eggs.