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Where’s the beef? That’s what the carnivores were wondering as they arrived at the Boathouse in Central Park for the “Noah” party.

The buffet tables were loaded with various forms of edible vegetable matter, but there was no meat, fish or cheese — because director Darren Aronofsky is vegan, as was the hero of his biblical epic, as played by Russell Crowe.

To underscore the point in the movie, which also stars Emma Watson and Jennifer Connelly, villain Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone) eagerly bites the head off an unidentified reptile and devours it raw. Meat = evil. Got it.

As hungry Boathouse guests bellied up to the bar for liquid nourishment, I wondered, why did Noah go to all that trouble to save the animals, if not to eat at least some of them?

The crowd included Arnon Milchan, Bryan Lourd, Tyson Beckford and Brett Ratner, who had Brazilian beauty Marcelle Braga on his arm.

Marcelle is the daughter of Carla Pellegrino, who married Frank Pellegrino Jr. when she was the chef at his no-longer-existing Baldoria. The two split, and Carla, who competed on “Top Chef” in 2012, now has restaurants in Las Vegas.

I don’t know how serious Brett and Marcelle are, but she said to one friend, “Have you met my boyfriend?”