Survivalist Bear Grylls admitted he is now “embarrassed” by his previous vegan diet, claiming he was wrong to think that it was good for his health or the environment.
Grylls, who previously practised both a vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, recently revealed that he has begun switching to a diet consisting entirely of red meat, eggs and organ meat, according to Fox News.
Prior to this, he went so far as to publish a cookbook Fuel for Life that attacked society’s “unnatural ways of breeding, keeping and killing animals”.
But on Wednesday, however, the adventurist told the UK Telegraph that he was “wrong” to attack meat.
“I was vegan quite a few years ago – in fact, I wrote a vegan cookbook – and I feel a bit embarrassed because I really promoted that,” Grylls said.
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