Alicia Silverstoneis speaking out about her 7-year-old son’s plant-based diet.
On Thursday, theCluelessalum was the keynote speaker atGood Housekeeping’s #RaiseTheGreenBar sustainability summit at Hearst Tower in New York City, where she toldPage Sixthat son Bear Blu has avoided getting sick because of his vegan lifestyle.
“He’s never had to take medicine in his life,” Silverstone, 42, said. “He can get sniffles and a runny nose but he’s not down, he still goes to school. Two times in his life has he been like, ‘Mommy I don’t feel good,’ and it was only for a few hours and he was back running around.”
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Alicia Silverstone and son Bear
Silverstone — who raises Bear withex Christopher Jarecki, also 42 — has been a vegan for over two decades aftergiving up meatat the age of 21. She’s been a passionate advocate for it since, even becoming avegan cookbook author.
Bear has embraced the lifestyle. In a video for the nonprofit Farm Sanctuary’s Compassionate Meals program back in May 2017, Bear said his favorite thing about being a vegan is “that you don’t have to eat yucky meat.”
His mom has no trouble whipping up dishes he enjoys, liketacosand stir fry, at a moment’s notice. “I can make all those things based on what’s in the fridge,” Silverstone said in the video. “You always have a bean, you always have a whole grain.”
“The amazing thing about it is that it’s turned me into ahealth nut, because youfeelso good, you feel so different,” she added. “So being able to do something that is good for the Earth, good for the animals and good for you all at the same time seems like such a no-brainer. It’s like the biggest ‘Duh!’”
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Alicia Silverstone
Back in 2012, Silverstone made headlines when she posted a video of herself chewing up food and feeding it directly into Bear’s mouth from her own. “It’s his favorite…and mine. He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I’m eating,” she said at the time.
But even as some havecriticized the idea of feeding children a vegan diet, Silverstone has staunchly defended her family’s lifestyle. “[Bear] lovesthe foodI give him,” she told PEOPLE in 2014. “He’s not being deprived of anything. For him, having amazing fruit is like candy!”
source: people.com
