Speaking with the speech after receiving Oscar in the nomination "Best Male Role", the star "Joker" Joachin Phoenix again turned to the problems of a global scale, including gender and racial inequality, climate change and animal rights. In particular, the actor mentioned the operation of cows, which soon responded to the national federation of milk producers.
The representative of this organization Alan Bherga said:
We live in a free country where everyone has the right to express their opinion, however, we would like Joaquin Phoenix to spoke not about us, but with us. If he had taken this way, he would be known how much dairy farmers are concerned about the animals themselves and their welfare. Phoenix no longer appears for the first time with such statements, but this time his words had a special resonance, since they were told in the framework of the Oscar ceremony.
The thanks to Phoenix was accepted by the hall with warm applause. The actor thanked his colleagues for the ability to give a second chance, and finally mentioned his deceased Brother Rivera. However, the main promise in the speech of Phoenix was precisely inequality and environmental problems. According to him, humanity has lost contact with nature, making himself the center of the world:
Many of us are guilty in egocentrism. We submit to our own nature, depleting its resources. It seems to us that we have the right to artificially inseminate a cow, and then take her child from her - even though the suffering of the animal is obvious. We also select the cow with her milk, intended for the calf, just to add it to their coffee or breakfast.
It is worth saying that Phoenix himself is Vegan since childhood, completely eliminating the products of animal origin from its diet. Also, the actor has long been engaged in activist activities, in every way attracting the attention of the public to infringement of animal rights.