Famous vegetarian Alicia Silverstone first gave up eating meat when she was eight but was too young to go completely veggie.

The big screen`s one-time Batgirl admits it took years for her to become a devoted non-meat eater.

She explains, "I didn`t grow up on vegetarian food. I ate the same things that everyone else did. There were times when I would get selfish and eat meat - at eight years old it`s hard to stick to your guns - and so through the years I was always starting and stopping trying to be a vegetarian."

It was a stint spent saving dogs from experimentation that turned the actress against meat for good.

She explains, "I started thinking, `Why am I saving one animal and still eating steak? How can I love these creatures so much... and keep eating meat?` Ultimately I thought that if I wasn`t ready to eat a dog, I shouldn`t be eating meat at all."

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