Ecorazzi has reported today on their website that Ellen DeGeneres has gone vegan. Ellen - a long time vegetarian - celebrated her recent nuptials to Portia De Rossi with vegan fare, and has since allegedly 'came-out' as a vegan at the Proposition 2 benefit in Las Angeles.
This leads me to ask: What about all those made-from-dead-animals-tested-on-live-animals cosmetics that you are hawking for CoverGirl (produced by the fiendish Proctor & Gamble)? Also, if you are a vegan does that mean you can no longer eat Portia's... Well, okay. I won't go there.
But, Ecorazzi writer 'Parrish' hopes that Ellen's new veggie status will perhaps help convince P&G to ditch current animal testing practices in favor of more humane options. To me this sounds like a double-standard on the part of Ecorazzi. I thought us vegans were the ones who were through deluding ourselves? This appears to be another example of celebrities putting money before morality, and Ellen shouldn't be immune to criticism in regards to her actions. If Ellen wants to persuade P&G to do the right thing then perhaps she, as spokeswoman, should publicly decry P&G's actions in the national media, and perhaps even *gasp* resign and give back all that dirty money.
According to a 2005 census by Forbes, DeGeneres's personal net worth is an estimated $65 Million.
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