Ricky Gervais finally reveals he is vegan

Ricky is a well-known British comedian, actor and director but he is also known for his stance on animal welfare. Gervais has been very outspoken on this topic over the years highlighting certain unethical treatments of animals including animal testing, the dog meat trade, bear bile farming, exotic pet trade, puppy mills, Seaworld, circuses that still exploit animals and foxhunting to name a few.

In 2018, he was awarded The Cecil Award from The Humane Society International. This occured after numerous campaign efforts to end trophy hunting, which began in earnest in 2015 when Cecil the lion was killed in Zimbabwe. He has talked about the need to cancel the Yulin Dog Meat Festival, and animal testing is, he says, an outmoded system that could have been replaced by AI years ago.

Even though he talked a great deal about these topics and his animal rights advocacy, it was never confirmed if  he was actually vegan or not. However in a recent episode on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he was asked “if you had to be a cannibal who would you eat?”

Gervais responded with “well I’m vegan so it’s even worse for me”

He later stated “I’d rather not eat anyone”.