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Toast a slice of 100% whole wheat, vegan bread. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, a longtime vegan, is starring in a new mass-transit PETA ad campaign encouraging anyone who wants to get healthy, go green, or help animals in 2014 to go vegan.The ads are currently running on buses throughout Washington, D.C., and on The Tide light rail in Norfolk, Virginiahome to PETA's HQ, the Sam Simon Center. He also shares his views on the Occupy Wall Street . He's a keen advocate of the benefits of yoga and vegan living. Discover more authors you'll love listening to on Audible. Along with sharing the joys of fatherhood, he chats it up about his latest book, "The Happy Vegan," which details the health and spiritual benefits of being vegan. Buy Now on Amazon (for US residents) or Book Depository (the rest of the world). Black History Month: February 2022. 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Simmons, who embraced a vegan diet in 2000, is also the author of the 2007 best-selling motivational guide Do . Russell Simmons, The Happy Vegan: A Guide to Living a Long, Healthy, and Successful Life. Coronavirus and eating animals Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons talks about his new book 'Happy Vegan,' and the many benefits of this growing lifestyle Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. Simmons has himself been a vegan for a number of years, and is an outspoken advocate of the lifestyle. In The Happy Vegan, Simmons shares how once he started practicing yoga and meditation, he became more conscious of his choices, particularly the choices he . Russell Simmons, who practices and teaches transcendental meditation, tells ABC's Dan Harris how meditating and being a vegan improved his health. Russell Simmons has faced online criticism after sharing a meme saying the coronavirus would not exist if the world was vegan. Russell Simmons The Happy Vegan: A Guide to Living a Long, Healthy, and Successful Life Hardcover - Illustrated, November 3, 2015 by Russell Simmons (Author), Chris Morrow (Author) 378 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover by Russell Simmons, with Chris Morrow. The outspoken star was talking at the recent Environmental Media Association Awards, where he was the EMA Missions in Music Award Recipient. Simmons told FoxNews.com that he turned to veganism 20 years ago, and that his quality of life has improved ever since. Browse Russell Simmons's best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. Simmons was spotted having a vegan meal Sunday with friends at Brooklyn Chop House at the Capri Hotel in Southampton, we're told. These are just a sample of the questions every vegan must endure over his or her lifetime. Simmons, 59, opened his yoga studio, Tantris, last year and . 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Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, record executive, a four-time best-selling author and activist whose career has been known in the worlds of music, film, television, fashion, comedy, poetry, theatre, and finance.