Musician Ne-Yo embraces new vegan diet saying he can never go back to eating animal products

Read Time:   |  18th August 2017


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Musician Ne-Yo says he can never go back to eating animal products after watching vegan documentary What the Health.

Musician Ne-Yo embraces new vegan diet saying he can never go back to eating animal products

In a recent interview with Herald Sun, musician Ne-Yo, or Shaffer Chimere Smith as he was born, discussed his recent decision to adopt a vegan diet.

The musician announced last week via a Facebook video that he ditched animal products after watching hard-hitting vegan documentary What the Health.

“I was running from it for a long time,” Smith said, “but the second I watched it, I instantly ran to [the] refrigerator and threw out all the deli meats. I can’t know what I know and still eat that stuff. I just can’t.”

While Smith said it is not easy for him to make the transition, he vowed to stick with his decision to adopt a vegan diet. “Meat literally makes you sick,” Smith said.

“It’s harder for me because I’m not really a fruit and vegetables kind [of] guy. I never have been, even from childhood, but I gotta do what I gotta do.”

What the Health—which debuted on Netflix in June—has had a massive impact on viewers, prompting everyone from celebrities to groups of atheletes to adopt a vegan diet.

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