Lewis Hamilton Criticized For Flying On A Gas Guzzling-Private Jet While Boasting About His Dog's Planet-Saving Vegan Diet

Lewis Hamilton has boasted about his dog's planet-saving vegan diet, and posted his pet sitting on a private jet with a plate of fruits on Instagram.

But he has been criticized by some social media users for flying on a gas-guzzling private jet while claiming to help the earth.

In the post, his dog Roscoe is pictured on the plane with a plate of fruit including strawberries, pineapple and kiwis.

Next to it was also a packed bowl of vegetables including broccoli, peppers and green beans.

“I loves beings a vegans. I gets all the vegetables ands fruits I wants.”

“My favs are watermelons ands pineapples. I've lost 5kgs ands feels betters thans evers,” wrote the F1 champion on his pet's Instagram account which has 375,000 followers.

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Almost 100 thousand people have liked the post, but some were concerned about the private jet having a huge carbon footprints due to them having fewer people flying on them.

“Talks about saving the environment whilst flying his dogs around first class/on private jets,” ranted George Drake.

“If everyone had a carbon footprint as big as Lewis Hamilton we wouldn't have an earth left.”

Jonas Tillmann fumed: “He's flying with a private jet and telling everybody that he would live so consistently. Excuse me?”

Alex Caprowski joked: “Doesn't eats meat, flies on a jet.” Others questioned feeding the dog a meat-free diet.

One - called - Avniq - said: “What do you feed for protein?” Another said: “Dogs are carnivores.”

The 36-year-old F1 champion's bulldog has been on a plant-based diet for the last two years.

He put Roscoe on a meat-free diet to help cure his ailments.

Experts last year warned that meat-free food for dogs can be deficient in vital vitamins.

Nicole Paley, of the Pet Food Manufacturers' Association, said: “We advise that vegan diets – with no animal products – are carefully checked by a vet or animal nutritionist.”

And television vet Dr Scott Miller, who has appeared as an expert on BBC's Crufts, said a vegan diet could be “extremely dangerous” for dogs, and often removing meat from them was purely due to the preference of the owner.

He said: “Dogs and cats have sharper teeth for catching meat. As much as it makes sense for you to be a vegan, when it comes to our pets it's going to prove problematic.”

Recent studies have also speculated that raw dog food may spread antibiotic-resistant bacteria.