Tired of drinking his own urine, Vegan clothing line founder eats an egg, and is tossed from his own company

Yes, we’re living in the Crazy Years.

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.

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 years ago.

Six years ago Mr 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, including drinking urine. He has drunk his own each day for two years.

He has previously said that going vegan takes ‘real bravery’. He told The Mail on Sunday that his departure from the company was a ‘mutual decision’.