Vegetarianism: A Paradigm Shift

Famous vegetarians, such as the American Nobel laureate writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978; the Nobel laureate writer, J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel in 2003; the entertainer Dick Gregory; the late founder and chief executive officer of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs; the self-help guru Anthony Robbins; the techno-music star Moby (née Richard Melville, a descendant of the writer Herman Melville); and Paul McCartney and his late wife, Linda, have thrown their considerable support behind the vegetarian cause over the years. In fact, in the late 1990s Paul and Linda McCartney launched a successful line of frozen vegetarian entrees. Grocery entrepreneur John Macley is the ethical vegetarian CEO of Whole Foods Markets, a wildly successful chain of health food supermarkets.