Leona Lewis and Red Hot Chili Pepper’s frontman Anthony Kiedis have been crowned the World’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities of 2008, by animal rights group PETA.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals compiled the votes from thousands of people online with the two music stars coming out on top.
“Soon after I [went vegan],” Kiedis tells PETA.� “I saw some documentary footage of what happens in the factory farming of cows… It sealed the deal.”
Lewis, who’s hit single ‘Bleeding Love’ has topped charts worldwide, is a strict vegetarian saying she doesn’t “have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products… I’m on a mission.”
Rising Hollywood star, Australian Abbie Cornish was crowned as Down Under’s sexiest vegetarian for 2008.
Cornish, who stars in the upcoming movie �Stop Loss� with her boyfriend Ryan Phillippe, has been a vegetarian since she was 13.
She says she garnered an understanding and compassion for animals when she was growing up on a farm, in the NSW Hunter Valley.
“I was really puzzled by the idea that people could feel compassion for a dolphin but, at the same time, they were quite prepared to eat a cow or a pig,” she says.
“It was confusing because I thought of all animals as equal”.
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