Voice actor Casey Kasem strictly demanded that his legendary character Shaggy from Scooby-Doo be written as a vegetarian because Kasem himself refused to promote meat consumption.

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Voice actor Casey Kasem strictly demanded that his legendary character Shaggy from Scooby-Doo be written as a vegetarian because Kasem himself refused to promote meat consumption. When producers asked him to voice Shaggy in a fast food commercial, Kasem famously quit the role, walking away from a lucrative gig rather than pretend an animated stoner would eat a hamburger. Eventually, the studio caved to his demands and officially made the perpetually terrified, bottomless-pit of a character a vegan just to get Kasem back in the recording booth. It is genuinely hilarious that the most famous glutton in cartoon history, a guy who routinely unhinged his jaw to consume sandwiches the size of small sedans, was technically adhering to a strict plant-based diet to appease the moral objections of a top forty radio host