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Joaquin Phoenix has spoken out about animal agriculture - branding it 'absurd and barbaric'.
Joaquin has been vegan since he was three years old.
'Didn't want to support violence'
"I've been vegan since I was three years old, and at that age, me and my
siblings witnessed fish being killed in a really violent and aggressive way
and it was just absolutely obvious that that was something we didn't want to
participate in and we didn't want to support," he said.
"To me, it just seems obvious - I don't want to cause pain to another living
empathetic creature. I don't want to take its babies away from it, I don't
want to force it to be indoors and fattened up just to be slaughtered."
'Absurd and barbaric'
Phoenix added that these behaviors are 'absurd and barbaric', saying he
'doesn't how you could witness that and not be affected by it'.
"Certainly, also, the effect that it has on our environment is devastating,"
he added.
"So, for me, it's my life and has always been my life, and it's really one
of the most important things to me."
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