{"id":23056,"date":"2010-06-09T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=23056"},"modified":"2010-06-09T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T19:48:12","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-goes-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/ozzy-osbourne-goes-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne Goes Vegetarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, the biter of bats, has professed his allegiance to… vegetarianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the story goes, in 1982 Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat onstage. There have been misunderstandings about the incidence over the years (Ozzy says he thought it was a fake bat, which was tossed up on the stage), but he still felt the wrath of animal lovers and, well, anyone who thought it wasn’t a good idea to lay your teeth into a potentially rabid animal.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about his famous bat-biting incident, in context with all of the things that he has survived over the years, Ozzy said “then there was the rabies treatment I had to go through after eating a bat… All I want to say is that I thought it was a rubber toy, swear on my 17 dogs\u2019 lives.”<\/p>\n

The devilishly wild rocker now says he has given up meat (even the more conventional kind).<\/p>\n

“I’ve pretty much become a vegetarian. Seriously. It’s my new phase: brown rice and vegetables. I don’t even drink milk, apart from a splash in my tea,” says Ozzy. “I also saw that Food, Inc.<\/a> film the other day, which gives you a new perspective – not just on meat-eating, but on the whole animal-product industry.”<\/p>\n

But don’t think he’s ready to join ranks of PETA just yet:<\/p>\n

“It ain’t because of the animals. I mean, I used to work in a slaughterhouse. You won’t see me marching over the frozen tundra, hunting down people who club seals. I just can’t digest meat<\/a> anymore.”<\/p>\n

Ozzy, like Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, is a bit of a medical miracle. Both have survived horrendous bouts with drug and alcohol abuse.<\/p>\n

In a bit of twisted irony, The UK’s Sunday Times Magazine has asked Ozzy to pen a health advice column<\/a> for the paper.<\/p>\n

(Photo via realbollywood.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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