During his Oscars acceptance speech for best male lead as the psychologically tormented Arthur Fleck in “Joker” (2019), actor Joaquin Phoenix famously lamented man’s treatment of cows. “We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources,” he lamented. “We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, we steal her baby. Even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.”
A couple of days later, Phoenix went to the Pico Rivera slaughterhouse in Los Angeles and “liberated” a cow and its calf from being “murdered, murdered, murdered,” as he put it.
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