It’s the most important holiday EVER today. No, not my birthday, it’s World Vegetarian Day!

As one of the token vegetarians around the TV Squad offices, I know all about the hardships of choosing to remain meat-free. But hey, I’m not alone. I’ve got millions of other vegetarian and vegan brethren - even fictional ones!

In honor of this joyous holiday, I’m grilling up some tofu and paying respect to some of TV’s best vegetarians. There aren’t many TV characters who are vegetarians, and there’s a surprising lack of male vegetarians, but it is easy to play favorites.

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• Sara Sidle, ‘CSI’

Sara, like actress Jorja Fox, is a vegetarian. She became one after spending a night with a dead pig and Grissom. In the 2002 episode ‘Burden of Proof,’ Sara gets sassy with Grissom about her vegetarianism. “I’m a vegetarian, everyone here knows I’m a vegetarian,” she said. “I haven’t eaten meat since we stayed up that night with that dead pig. It pains me to see ground beef. Forget about cleaning it up.” Bonus, Fox’s ‘ER’ character, Dr. Maggie Doyle, was also a vegetarian.

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