DeGeneres Talks Vegansim

Daytime talk-show host, vegan, and newest American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres took time out of her busy schedule to sit down with Katie Couric for an interview, which appears condensed in the March issue of Glamour magazine. The pair discusses DeGeneres’ switch to a vegan diet. DeGeneres says she first considered veganism after reading the book Skinny Bitch, but ultimately was convinced to adopt a vegan diet after watching Earthlings, the award-winning documentary about animal suffering. “I can’t participate in that,” she told Couric. “I can’t be a part of something that is suffering. It’s a very disturbing reality.”