{"id":40588,"date":"2026-07-08T02:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/?p=40588"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:34:15","slug":"is-rza-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-rza-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is RZA Vegan? 30 Years of Plants and He Still Benches 225"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in the mid-90s, at the height of Wu-Tang&rsquo;s first reign, RZA bit into a chicken wing and had a thought that ruined it forever: <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/wu-tang-s-rza-to-joe-rogan-no-animal-needs-to-die-for-me-to-live\">this is a dead bird<\/a>. Not dinner. A dead bird.<\/p>\n<p>That thought did what thoughts sometimes do. Red meat went in 1995, poultry in 1996, fish in 1997, and by around 2000 the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan was fully vegan. Nearly three decades later, at 56, he told Men&rsquo;s Health he still benches 225 pounds on a strictly plant-based tour diet. The math on &ldquo;you need meat for strength&rdquo; keeps not working out.<\/p>\n<style>.tiv-verdict{border-left:6px solid #29a579;background:#f8decd;padding:18px 22px;margin:28px 0;border-radius:0 14px 14px 0;color:#0a4a4a}.tiv-verdict .tiv-badge{display:inline-block;background:#106050;color:#fff;padding:4px 14px;border-radius:999px;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.4px;margin-bottom:8px}.tiv-verdict p{margin:8px 0 0}.tiv-check{font-size:13px;color:#0a6b6c;margin-top:10px}details.tiv-tl{border:1px solid #e5ded4;border-radius:10px;margin:10px 0;background:#fff}details.tiv-tl summary{cursor:pointer;padding:13px 16px;font-weight:600;color:#0a4a4a}details.tiv-tl[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #f0ebe2}details.tiv-tl .tiv-tlb{padding:12px 16px;color:#0a4a4a}.tivq{border:2px solid #29a579;border-radius:14px;padding:22px;margin:30px 0;background:#fff}.tivq .tivq-q{margin:16px 0;padding:14px;background:#f6f3ec;border-radius:10px}.tivq .tivq-q p{font-weight:600;margin:0 0 10px}.tivq button{display:block;width:100%;text-align:left;margin:6px 0;padding:11px 14px;border:1px solid #d9d2c5;border-radius:8px;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-size:16px;color:#0a4a4a}.tivq button.tiv-ok{background:#29a579;color:#fff;border-color:#29a579}.tivq button.tiv-no{background:#fbe9e4;border-color:#e59875}.tivq .tivq-res{display:none;font-weight:700;margin-top:14px;font-size:18px;color:#106050}<\/style>\n<div class=\"tiv-verdict\"><span class=\"tiv-badge\">QUICK ANSWER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, RZA is vegan,<\/strong> meat-free since 1995 and fully vegan for roughly a quarter century. In July 2025, on Wu-Tang's final tour, he detailed his strictly plant-based routine to Men's Health. According to PETA, he's converted most of the Clan along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tiv-check\">Last fact-checked: July 7, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>&ldquo;No animal needs to die for me to live&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>RZA&rsquo;s argument for veganism is the shortest one on our entire list, delivered straight <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/wu-tang-s-rza-to-joe-rogan-no-animal-needs-to-die-for-me-to-live\">to Joe Rogan<\/a> in 2019: &ldquo;No animal needs to die for me to live, okay?&rdquo; His other recurring line does the philosophy in six words: it makes no sense putting &ldquo;dead flesh&rdquo; into a &ldquo;live body&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a spiritual layer too. His plant-based discipline runs parallel to his kung fu, qigong and chess practice, all of it part of the same self-mastery project he&rsquo;s run since the 36 Chambers days. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/wu-tang-clan-rza-workout-diet-tour-1236018811\/\">July 2025 Men&rsquo;s Health feature<\/a> reads accordingly: avocado toast for breakfast, lentils and fennel for lunch, fruit through the day, twice-daily training. &ldquo;Fitness is everything. When you&rsquo;re on stage and you&rsquo;re moving an hour, 90 minutes, sometimes two hours, your legs got to be in shape.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>The vegan timeline, tap to expand<\/h2>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>1995: red meat is out<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">The chicken-wing realization era begins. Red meat goes first.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>1996\/1997: poultry, then fish<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">The step-down continues, one animal category per year.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>Around 2000: fully vegan<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">Dairy and eggs done. The streak that's still running starts here.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>2015: A Better Tomorrow Is a Vegan Tomorrow<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">His PETA PSA, titled after Wu-Tang's 2014 album, has him morphing between people and animals: &#8220;We are all the same in all the ways that matter.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>October 2018: Wu-Tang in space, eating vegan sliders<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">A four-part web series with GZA and Ghostface Killah aboard the &#8220;Wu-F-O&#8221;, promoting White Castle's Impossible Slider, complete with a real hotline: 1-833-4-SLIDER. It later screened at Tribeca. This actually happened.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>November 2019: the Rogan line<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">&#8220;No animal needs to die for me to live, okay?&#8221; delivered on the biggest podcast in the world.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>July 2025: the final tour, fully fueled<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">Men's Health documents the plant-based tour regimen: 225 on the bench at 56, kung fu, yoga, qigong, lentils.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<h2>The Wu-Tang effect<\/h2>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s the stat that makes RZA more consequential than almost any celebrity vegan: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/rza-wu-tang-vegan-peta\/\">according to PETA<\/a>, roughly 80% of the Wu-Tang Clan is now vegan, largely through his influence. One man&rsquo;s chicken-wing epiphany quietly converted most of the greatest rap group ever assembled. That&rsquo;s not influencer marketing. That&rsquo;s the Abbot doing what abbots do.<\/p>\n<p>Hip-hop and hardcore both built vegan traditions decades before wellness culture arrived. For the punk side of that story, read our checks on <a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-moby-vegan\/\">Moby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-travis-barker-vegan\/\">Travis Barker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Fact or fiction?<\/h2>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>Most of Wu-Tang Clan is now vegan. Fact or fiction?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\"><strong>Fact.<\/strong> PETA puts it at roughly 80%, crediting RZA's influence.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>Wu-Tang made a space-themed vegan burger commercial. Fact or fiction?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\"><strong>Fact.<\/strong> &#8220;Wu-Tang in Space Eating Impossible Sliders&#8221;, 2018, with a real fan hotline. It screened at Tribeca.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>He quit all animal products overnight in 1995. Fact or fiction?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\"><strong>Fiction.<\/strong> It was a staged descent: red meat 1995, poultry 1996, fish 1997, fully vegan around 2000.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<h2>Quiz: how well do you know vegan RZA?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tivq\">\n<h3>Five questions, no cheating<\/h3>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>1. What realization made him quit meat?<\/p>\n<p><button data-ok>A chicken wing is a dead bird<\/button><button>A documentary about pigs<\/button><button>A doctor's warning<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>2. In what order did he drop animal foods?<\/p>\n<p><button data-ok>Red meat, poultry, fish<\/button><button>Fish, poultry, red meat<\/button><button>All at once<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>3. His PETA PSA is named after which Wu-Tang album?<\/p>\n<p><button>Enter the Wu-Tang<\/button><button data-ok>A Better Tomorrow<\/button><button>Iron Flag<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>4. What could fans call after the Wu-Tang space series?<\/p>\n<p><button data-ok>1-833-4-SLIDER<\/button><button>1-800-WU-VEGAN<\/button><button>A texting hotline<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>5. How much does he bench at 56, fully plant-based?<\/p>\n<p><button>185 lbs<\/button><button data-ok>225 lbs<\/button><button>315 lbs<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-res\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>document.addEventListener(\"click\",function(e){var b=e.target.closest(\".tivq button\");if(!b||b.disabled)return;var q=b.closest(\".tivq-q\"),z=b.closest(\".tivq\"),ok=b.hasAttribute(\"data-ok\");q.querySelectorAll(\"button\").forEach(function(x){x.disabled=!0;if(x.hasAttribute(\"data-ok\"))x.classList.add(\"tiv-ok\")});if(!ok)b.classList.add(\"tiv-no\");z.dataset.d=(+z.dataset.d||0)+1;z.dataset.s=(+z.dataset.s||0)+(ok?1:0);if(+z.dataset.d===z.querySelectorAll(\".tivq-q\").length){var r=z.querySelector(\".tivq-res\");r.style.display=\"block\";r.textContent=\"Your score: \"+z.dataset.s+\" of \"+z.dataset.d+\". \"+(+z.dataset.s>=4?\"Superfan status confirmed.\":+z.dataset.s>=2?\"Solid. The timeline above will fill the gaps.\":\"Rough. Scroll back up and try again.\")}});<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Is RZA still vegan in 2026?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, with July 2025 receipts from his own tour regimen and a spot on the current vegan celebrity lists. Thirty years in, the man has outlasted most of the industries that doubted him. Wu-Tang is for the children; the plants, apparently, are forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More vegan celebrity checks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-moby-vegan\/\">Is Moby vegan?<\/a> The other 30-year musician<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-travis-barker-vegan\/\">Is Travis Barker vegan?<\/a> Punk&rsquo;s answer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-stevie-wonder-vegan\/\">Is Stevie Wonder vegan?<\/a> Motown&rsquo;s answer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:RZA_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\">Gage Skidmore<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">The Wu-Tang Clan&#8217;s mastermind quit meat in the 90s after one chicken wing too many, and converted most of the Clan along the way. 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