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POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

There's a sad song being sung in the hearts of vegetarians this morning, as we read this interview that Dark Knight star and veg-since-the-age-of-7 Christian Bale gave to GQ about why he has gone back to eating animals.


    The bodybuilding and unbuilding you’ve done for your roles is alarming—the former all the more so for its being accomplished without any animal protein.

    Actually, I’m in and out of the vegetarianism now. But yeah, the majority of the building up you’re talking about was done when I was still a vegetarian.

    When did you fall off the wagon?

    Just after I’d completed American Psycho [for which Bale, as the preening sociopath Patrick Bateman, got furiously ripped].

    Dietary reasons? Or something to do with the character?

    I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.

    Life Is Beautiful.

    Yeah.

    That makes sense.
    Yeah.

Life Is Beautiful? Anyone else have a similar urge to consume massive amounts of steak following seeing this movie?

We were willing to dismiss his recent animal-like outburst on the Terminator set, but this, I'm afraid will be much harder for veg-heads to forgive. But hey, at least he's still partially "in" veggie-ism right?

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Cerise

Cerise says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

That is pretty gross but I guess if you've got a craving you've got a craving. And it's not bad to eat animals (I'm a strict veg-head btw), it's about the way they are treated. I wouldn't be mad if he made a conscious effort to eat happy meat at least.

JaVi

JaVi says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Well, it doesn't really matter what others think right?
There is nothing to forgive, he is still awesome

Micael

Micael says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Haha, wow.

Watchhens

Watchhens says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

...I dont see how this is really worth mentioning, seeing as American Psycho was filmed years ago.

Tahahahsha!!!

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

eat the meat!

Jet Plane

Jet Plane says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Psh. This isn't buzz worthy news/blog. Sorry.. I care a lot about how we treat animals. Not who's vegetarian and who's not.

Paige Lauren.

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

ahahahaha. yay meat.

JCCAKES

JCCAKES says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Good for him being normal and all..

adrian

adrian says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

yuuuuuuuuuum, meat! (my mouth is getting watery already)

XnoelsxradX

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

I don't quite understand how you can just watch a movie and then go "Oh man, I need to eat a huge piece of flesh right now or I'm not going to die!" Like, after being a vegetarian for so long, how can you give it up so easily for just ONE craving that won't KILL you if you ignore. It's dissapointing.

Ley

Ley says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Each to their own I suppose. Though I'm going to personally stick to my animal-friendly diet.

Carla!

Carla! says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Christ...This makes me love Christian Bale even more.

Piki

Piki says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

To Cerise:
"It's not bad to eat animals, it's about the way they're treated."

WTF they die either way, no matter how they're treated. Actually, killing animals in the first place when we don't NEED them is mistreating them.

Piki

Piki says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Seriously, I just don't think some of you people should even be on SocialVibe, saying that "Oh he's finally normal" and "Good for him" and "I love him even more".
SocialVibe is about maknig the world a better place, and all you people are doing is making it worse.

sticks.stones.techno

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

So stupid.

I'll be vegetarian for the rest of my life
<3

MattBook

MattBook says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

God, this is an example of annoying people, "oh i was a vegetarian all my life but a saw a movie and packed it in" WHAT?! Ok if you where trying out being vegetarian for a month or so yea, go back to meat if you want, but seriously, people shouldn't just change.

MaddLouise

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

wow, Piki..
the more people on socialvibe, the more the world is being helped. no matter who the people are/what they believe in.

I am a vegetarian, and I think it is odd that a movie made a vegetarian of how many years crave bloody flesh. but I'm not Christian Bale. I'm sure he saved a ton of animals for being a vegetarian for so long. and if he's still on&off veg than that's great =]

firthfan33

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

i dnt care and ive had the same thing with the craving of blood. im not a veggitarian i was for two weeks once haha

Jill

Jill says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

that's gross. i have never given in to my cravings for meat. so much so that i don't even crave it anymore. i will have been a vegetarian for two years in july.

JCCAKES

JCCAKES says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Theirs more to changing the world than being vegetarian Piki.

Yasmin

Yasmin says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

isn't that really bad for the body? :S i think my mum was explainin something to my aunty who has been veggie since she was 11, and that if she tried to eat too much meat in one go now it would make her very poorly because she's not used to it.. so would have to introduce it back in small doses

i just hope that's wrong and he doesnt make himself very sick =/

Dark Angel

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

It's his choice :]
Doesn't really matter who's a vegetarian and who's not, just how the animals are treated like others have said.

ILoveKirby

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

I agree.
The only reason I don't eat red meat is because I don't know if the animal was tortured or not. So, whatever, whatever I guess. His life, not ours.(:

STEVE

STEVE says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

strange...

nphan

nphan says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Gosh, I love him. But yeah, that was gross... the hunger for meat.

Bete

Bete says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

who cares?

JayTee

JayTee says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Well props to him for going veg so early. That's tough and he did it for a long time so go him! He'll probably bounce back & forth; who cares. It's still awesome no matter what.

Maggie!

Maggie! says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

i always have an urge to eat meat .
veggies are gross .

Alycha

Alycha says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Grow up. No ones judging vegg heads for their choice, get over his.

Rali*

Rali* says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

:))

Mallo[bar]

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Gross... I don't get it.

joey

joey says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

thats disgusting.

a taste for blood? woah.

Quivi

Quivi says:
POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

thats really gross. im not a vegetarian but i dunno i just dont ever feel like ouch that just sounded really bad. i do like his acting but he scares me a lot half the time. then again its good hes that honest n not worried of being so politically correct all the time .. but ouch that was weird

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POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

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POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

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Kirstygirl

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

=(

BrianaBones

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

Well, I think the blood craving is gross. I'm not a vegetarian, but ew. Haha.

cococarinamo

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

twenty years?
wtf?
i'd throw up.

FallenAngel

POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO

"I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on" ...ewwww grosss!

C E D E Z Z Z  Z O9

POSTED 8 MONTHS AGO

they're already dead, nothing we can do by then but make sure they're deaths certainly werent for nothing. go animals(:


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