Actor Joaquin Phoenix Supports Veganism At The Oscars 2020

Actor Joaquin Phoenix, known for his vegan activism, has been awarded the Oscar for best actor in 2020 and has used his speech to launch a message in favor of the environment, equality of races and genders and the rights of animals .

“When we speak of justice, we speak of fighting against the belief that a person, a nation, a people, a race, a gender or a species, has the right to dominate and control the rest,” said Joaquin Phoenix during the last Oscars 2020 gala.

“The human being is disconnected from the natural world and mistakenly believes the center of the Universe,” said Phoenix during his speech.

“We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. Then we take the milk that is intended for her calf and put it in our coffee and our cereals,” he has continued Phoenix. If you want to listen to the complete Provenance speech, we leave you here the link.

Miley Cyrus also took advantage of a MET gala to launch a message in favor of animals. “I am here to give a message to the world: veganism,” he said then. But the singer and actress is not the only openly vegan celebrity. Musician Moby, who has been supporting animal rights for decades, has titled his first TEDx talk: “Why am I vegan?” Actress Natalie Portman premiered her documentary Eating Animals in June , based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s book of the same name.

Ariana Grande, Liam Hemsworth, Jared Leto, Alicia Silverstone … are on the growing list of influencers who support veganism.

A good speaker for veganism

But does this help veganism? Cristina Rodrigo, director of ProVeg Spain, an international organization for food awareness that defends plant-based food, explains to us, yes.

According to the doctor in psychology Melanie Joy, celebrities are perceived as “models”, so “in general, they help positively to spread veganism “.

Along the same lines, Outi Lundahl analyzed in her doctoral work (2017) the challenge of “22 vegan days” promoted by Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z, and associated it with the greater interest of the British for a diet free of origin products. animal; In addition, the message focused on food and health transforms that of veganism, which is no longer related only to “activists and hippies.”

Is the message diluted?

Although the dissolution of the ethical and political burden of the message infuriates part of the vegan movement, it also popularizes it, explains Cristina Rodrigo.

” Fear of watering down the message shouldn’t be our biggest fear,” says Tobias Leenaert, author of Towards a Vegan Future .

“Certainly Beyoncé’s motives for promoting a plant-based diet are not animals, but does she harm them because of it?” Asks Cristina Rodrigo. “If a part of its millions of fans decide to reduce or eliminate their consumption of animals, whatever the reason, is it not positive to achieve that fewer and fewer animals are slaughtered per year?”, He concludes.