By Mark Hookham For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2019 | Updated: 11:07 GMT, 24 February 2019
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A vegan YouTube star has been forced out of the ‘ethical’ clothing company he founded after he confessed to eating raw eggs and salmon.
Tim Shieff, a vegan campaigner and world champion free-runner, released an emotional YouTube video last November in which he admitted abandoning his plant-based diet because he was ‘desperate’ to boost his health.
Mr Shieff, 30, told how he visited a local farm after completing a ‘35-day water fast’, in which he consumed only distilled water.
Six years ago Tim Shieff, whose YouTube channel has more than 180,000 subscribers, became a vegan and he has used his online platform to promote veganism and extreme fasting and diets
Seeing chickens ‘running around, completely free’, he bought two eggs and ate them raw. ‘It sent me questioning everything,’ he said. ‘A few days later I bought some wild salmon and tried that.’
His confession prompted a fierce online backlash from militant vegans and an apology for his behaviour from his colleagues at ETHCS, the vegan clothing company he founded three
