Quiz of the year 2018: Round six

Chris Maume’s picture round: who are these people and what is the link?

Who are the above, and what’s the link?

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1. Ariana Grande has been vegan since 2013; she told V magazine: “In America, almost everybody thinks you need to have meat for protein. Protein, protein, protein! And what’s in dairy? Calcium, calcium, calcium. It’s those kinds of proteins that latch on to the insides of your bloodstream and make it easier for you to have a heart attack. Look, cows produce milk with nutrients for cows. Maybe that's why Americans end up looking like cows.”

2. will.i.am announced his veganism at the beginning of the year, saying: “I am tired of being pimped by food companies … and feeling bad in the morning.” 

3. Paul McCartney went vegetarian many years ago after a fishing trip: “As I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised: ‘I am killing him.’” 

4. Natalie Portman relaxed her veganism to include dairy when she was pregnant. 

5. Russell Brand went vegetarian at 14 and maintained it even when he was a junkie: “I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger,” he wrote in his memoir. “What a sexy little paradox.” 

6. In 2010 Alicia Silverstone published The Kind Diet, a cookbook intended to persuade others to follow her into veganism. 

7. Forrest Whitaker has appeared in a Peta video. “I don’t think being a vegetarian hurts,” he said in March this year. 

8. Bill Clinton went vegan in 2010 following two major heart operations. 

9. A vegetarian since he was 11, Morrissey told Larry King in 2015 that he was a vegan. 

10. Pamela Anderson became a vegetarian in her teens thanks to seeing deer and moose killed by her hunter father. She’s now a vegan who regularly works with Peta. Dairy, she says, “just doesn’t belong in our bodies”. 

11. James Cameron and his family became vegans in 2012. “By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world,” he said the following year. 

12. Martin Shaw has been vegetarian since 1971. “I’m not prepared to kill and cause suffering because of my palate,” he told a vegan website. 

13. Leo Tolstoy espoused vegetarianism in his 50s after a conversation about the subject convinced him of its rightness. In the last year of his life he corresponded with Gandhi on the subject.  

14. George Bernard Shaw wrote extensively on vegetarianism. He said he stopped eating meat when he read Shelley’s lines in The Revolt of Islam: “Never again may blood of bird or beast / Stain with its venomous stream a human feast!” 

15. Mahatma Gandhi was a lifelong vegetarian: “He equated chastity of soul with chastity of food,” according to the Gandhi Research Foundation website.

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