Celebrities can undeniably have a significant impact on how people perceive different issues,

veganism included. But how much value should we as vegans place on celebrity endorsements of

veganism? And what does this mean for when celebrities announce that they're no longer vegan?

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listening. So let's talk about celebrities. And I think one of the best places to start is to

probably discuss a little bit about how the role of celebrity has changed. Celebrities in decades

gone by were often movie stars, musicians, people who had reached sort of the pinnacle

in their respective field and as a consequence were bringing in enrichment and entertainment

and joy into people's lives through the varying mediums they were engaging in. Maybe sometimes

there were celebrities because of an invention or because of a scientific

discovery or whatever it may be, but these were people who'd reached public notoriety,

mostly for doing positive things that provided enrichment and as a consequence people looked

up to them because they aspired to have the success that they'd had. They aspired to reach the

pinnacle of their respective career aspirations,

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