He took part in a protest while he was on his way to attend the Toronto International Film Festival. Vegan from the age of 3, he has been fighting for animal rights his whole life. Joaquin Phoenix tells Brut why he’s so committed to this cause.
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00:00I've been vegan since I was three years old and at that age me and my siblings witnessed fish being
00:06killed in a really violent and aggressive way and it was just absolutely obvious that that was
00:12something that we didn't want to participate in and we didn't want to support. You know to me it
00:18just seems obvious. I don't want to cause pain to another living empathetic creature. I don't want
00:27to take its babies away from it. I don't want to force it to to be indoors and fattened up just to
00:34be slaughtered. It is absurd and barbaric and I just I don't understand how you could witness that
00:44and not be affected by it but certainly it's also you know the effect that it has on our environment
00:50is devastating. So for me it's it's just it's my life and it has always been my life and it's
00:59it's really one of the most important things to me.
01:50I thought that I was avoiding wool. I never knew that suits were made of wool. I had that
02:14rationalization well it's something that has just taken off them and there's not a lot of abuse
02:20which seems incredibly naive. You can help stop the suffering. Anything you have that
02:26is made from animal skins can be made without.