 He became a pescatarian in 1970, after the death of his father, and a vegetarian in the early 1980s, saying he "couldn't eat anything that had a mother".He became a co-owner of "Vegetarian Times" in the mid-1980s and said in one issue, "I love tofu burgers and beets".He told "Vegetarian Times" that he had become a vegetarian for both ethical and health reasons.