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James Cromwell, the actor best known for playing the farmer in the 1995 film "Babe," has lately been very active in the animal rights movement. He has worked with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and was among a number of people arrested at a PETA-sponsored protest of Wendy's this summer. And like a number of other PETA-affiliated celebrities, Cromwell is a rank hypocrite, condemning people who eat meat but turning around and defending other uses of animals when it impacts his lifestyle.
In a profile in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cromwell says that, "I'm a vegan with an asterisk." The asterisk? Among other things, Cromwell enjoys wearing leather shoes and dairy products in baked goods.
So it is okay to kill a cow to produce leather for Cromwell's shoes, but wrong for you or I to eat the meat produced from that same animal. Come on, Cromwell, why be so wasteful? Lets use the whole animal.
Source:
Television column. The Plain Dealer, September 23, 2001, p.33.