Popular TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres launched a new vegan website “Going Vegan with Ellen,” which has heaps of information on the vegan lifestyle. The website offers advice for those considering shifting to the healthy lifestyle and offers resources and links to help those who already made the change. DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi went vegan for the animals back in 2008, and say they have been never healthier. Ellen encourages her big audience to follow the same lifestyle through her morning show and usually features delicious vegan recipes with top chiefs, such as Wolfgang Puck, who has made a vegan pizza on her show. The website features tips and facts on the globally growing vegan lifestyle, which excludes meat, dairy and all animal products as well as passing on products that were tested on animals. That includes not wearing leather of fur. Wife and actress De Rossi, who made the switch with Ellen, said in 2008, “we are just both very happy. It feels like such a compassionate choice. We are such animal lovers, why stop short of cows and chickens? It didn't make any sense.” The website contains an updated list of celebrities who adopted the vegan lifestyle such as Alanis Morissette, Alec Baldwin, Alicia Silverstone, Musician André 3000, Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Tyson and Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis, among others. The website states that going vegan could be amazing for the planet as “animal farming is the number one cause of climate change in the world. In fact it has a 40 percent larger carbon footprint than all transportation around the globe combined.” Or for the animals where “99 percent of all land animals are used for meat, milk or eggs. Around 450 billion animals are factory farmed on the planet each year and the standards for ethical treatment in these facilities continue to decline.” Or for health benefits as “scientific studies supported by the American Dietetic Association have confirmed that vegan and vegetarian diets are associated with lower cholesterol, lower risk of heart disease, lower blood pressure, lower risk of hypertension and type 2 diabetes, lower body fat and overall lower cancer rates. In fact, studies have shown that a vegan diet can actually reverse diabetes, heart disease and even cancer.” Yet, even Ellen can't make everyone happy. The Super Vegan website called it “a godawful website. The visual design is clunky and unbalanced. The interface is atrocious, breaking what little content the site has is into numerous pieces, requiring dozens of clicks to see information that would make more sense on one page.” BM
