Theo Rossi.Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty
From meat-free restaurants to the plant-based options at most grocery stores,sticking to a vegan dietis extremely doable, and common, in 2021. But for actorTheo Rossi, going vegan in back in 1997 was an anomaly.
The Sons of Anarchy star, 46, decided to switch to adiet entirely free of animal productswhen he was 22 years old.
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That, along with learning more about how meat is processed, convinced Rossi to go vegan. Plus, he says, food isn’t a priority in his life.
“Listen, there’s eat to live, and live to eat. I eat to live, meaning like, I’m not big on that whole food thing,” he says.
That means Rossi is totally fine with eating the same foods every day, even if it’s different from what his wife and kids, who eat meat, consume.
“I know that’s not appealing to people,” he says. “I literally eat the same thing. Dinner is just a different version of what it was the night before, which is like vegetables, a salad, and either lentils or tempeh, or tofu, or more vegetables, or a pita bread. It’s just easy.”
Thoughfinding vegan-friendly foodswas tough in the 90s when Rossi first went vegan.
“In 1997, it wasn’t fashionable and it wasn’t cool, and we weren’t doing tofu turkeys for Thanksgiving, and all you could really eat was pasta,” he says. “I was trying things. This is pre-Whole Foods, pre-Erewhon, pre-juices on every corner. I was trying things, because I was trying to see what works for me. Being a vegan works for me.”
And Rossi is dedicated to his diet — even if his friends find it odd.
“My friends make fun of me and they’re like, ‘oh, are you going to eat your rabbit food or you’re going to eat this?’ " he says. “I’ve had the same friends since I was eight years old. They’re very aware that I’m going to do me no matter what.”
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source: people.com
