Las Vegan Tycoon & Icon Steve Wynn Still Vegan?

Photo left. With “Lipitor” Mr. Steve Wynn had kept his cholesterol level at 180. Ditching the Lipitor and adopting a vegan diet cholesterol levels dropped to a steady 140. Big pharma looses and veganism wins.

Photo middle. June 23, 2010. Waking up on his yacht in St. Tropez Mr. Wynn and partner go vegan cold tofurkey.

Photo right. One of Wynn’s Las Vegas restaurants now offering an extended vegan menu.

UPDATE: I received confirmation that Mr. Steve Wynn still is vegan. Great to hear and congratulations to him and his partner for being vegan 4 years this month.

4 years ago a certain Steve Wynn did go vegan. I tell ya all, I had to Google to find out who this mr. Wynn was. When Google showed me the results, my jaws dropped in awesomeness. This time it was not another flimsy Hollywood celeb who had gone vegan, but a super successful businessmen, a living Las Vegas icon, number 491 on the Most Rich list. To see such a successful businessmen to be so open minded and go vegan now THAT was inspiring.

The first months we did hear much from Vegan Steve. We did hear that Mr. Steve did give each of his employee a vegan DVD, and how he hired celebrity vegan chef Tal Ronnen and added a supecool vegan menu to 13 of his luxurious restaurants. After that….silence.

Was Mr Steve Wynn the Easily Warmed Up But Just As Easily Cooled Down kinda guy? Last year Mr. Steve Wynn tried to team up with notorious vegetarian basher and meat lover Gordon Ramsey. What’s going on here? 2 and 2 just didn’t add up here. Time to catch on with Vegan Steve for a follow up interview.

Jennifer Lopez Goes Vegan!! (For 21 Days + a few extra weeks)

article in the Daly News about Jennfier Lopez and her 21 Vegan Challenge.

I don’t know about you but every time I read about a celebrity going vegan it just makes my day.

Recently Jennifer Lopez did the 21 Day Vegan Diet Challenge. She was extremely positive about the vegan diet and stayed on it for a few extra weeks. Although now she  “incorporated a little bit of fish here and there" it still is great news for veganism and the animals. The influence of mega celebrities like Jennifer going vegan can hardly be overestimated.

The vegan community has responded extremely vitriolic and narrow minded. Oh, what’s new, eh.

MUST READ : Interview with vegan celeb Sam Simon

Last week green gossip site Ecorazzi had an exclusive interview with Sam Simon, famous for being the co creator of the Simpsons two decades ago, and, for recently donating a 2 million dollar vessel to Sea Shepherd in the battle against the whalers in the arctic waters.

Besides being a celeb, Sammy is a vegan and simply a super nice and dedicated guy who has something to say. I did found his interview very interesting and worthwhile. 

The parts that struck me most were his remarks with regards to Peta, and his remark that “The fight for animal rights is a fight against big business.”. Well said.

Thanks, Sammy, for giving this inspiring interview.

Click here for the exclusive interview on www.ecorazzi.com