Mercy For Animals celebrated its 23rd anniversary with a celebrity-studded red carpet on Friday, September 16.
Explosion was on the red carpet for the Mercy For Animals Gala to talk to stars about veganism and the importance of ditching animal products for au-natural products.
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Blast Attending the Mercy For Animals Gala
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“Succession” star James Cromwell was honored with the “Award of Hope” at the evening’s gala for his animal rights activism and continued fight to make changes in the US food system
The explosion reporter, Madison Conklin, spoke with Cromwell about his award and activism.
“What are your HOPE for the future of the food system,” he asked Cromwell.
“Well, that’s not wishful thinking, because it has to happen. It is a must. The food system needs to change radically immediately,” he said firmly. “The reason I say that all these issues are intersections, they intersect with each other. You know, social justice, environmental justice, health justice, women’s issues, gay issues. All those issues are all the same, they are part of the same fabric.”
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Cromwell Says Food System Needs Radical Change & NOW!
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She explains too many people make excuses NOT to try going vegan.
“Vegan issues about being vegan, both because it’s better for your body, better for the environment and also how to stop the extreme cruelty that exists in the system is actually achievable if everyone would embrace veganism,” Cromwell said. Explosion. “If they say ‘Oh, I can’t possibly do that, I love my cheese so much. Oh yeah, I only eat fish you know.’ If they would stop with the bullshit and just say, ‘Let me do it one day a week.’ See how you feel at the end of the week and say, ‘Oh, okay. Maybe I’ll try two days.'”
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Award Recipient James Cromwell & Chef Babette Davis
Madison Conklin
Cromwell became a vegan in 1995 following her role in the film, “Babe.” She has been fighting for animal rights for almost 30 years.
In an interview with VICECromwell explained how the film inspired her veganism.
“This film is about what we do to each other by trapping us and others into certain categories that protect our own sense of entitlement and position and power. Little Pig questions that and finds an open consciousness in Farmer Hoggett,” he explained in a 2015 interview.
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Speaking to Cromwell at the Mercy For Animals gala, she urged people to try veganism “at your own pace.”
“Do it at your own pace. Do it with your own intention, so you don’t feel inadequate, so you don’t feel responsible,” he said. “So it’s something that happens naturally, because you feel better, you think better, you connect better, because that’s what’s important and that needs to happen tonight.”
Cromwell Warns Food System Protests Could Soon Be Illegal
Cromwell warned that there was legislation that could be passed that would make it illegal to protest the food system.
“They will protest against the illegal food system. It was the next thing after Thomas got away with everything. I know that they’re going to do that and they’re going to arrest us, and they’re going to put you in jail,” he said before adding, “been in jail and prison, it’s not a good feeling. So you have to say to yourself, ‘Okay, but I’m willing to put myself in that position, because if I don’t get that position, nothing will change.’
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When asked if he believed there would be a future world where NO animal cruelty or slaughter would occur, Cromwell said, “From your mouth to God’s ears. That depends on us. Of course, it can be done.”
“You know… for tens of thousands of years we have lived in harmony and balance and in relationship with the whole. This is all us. The tree is ours, the soil is ours, the air is ours, and we honor it and adore it and celebrate it and listen to it, now we have distanced ourselves from that spirit,” Cromwell said. “We need to reunite ourselves with passion. The spirit that exists within us, that exists in consciousness, exists everywhere and forms everything. And if we do this, we can change it. But, only if we do so, only if we access the heart. You cannot solve a problem using the same mind that created the problem in the first place.”
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