James Cromwell Went The Whole Hog Going Vegetarian
Written by Vegetarian Star on February 19th, 2009 in Actors, Environment-Eco-Green, Food & Drink, Videos.
James Cromwell recently attended a screening of Fuel, a film about America’s dependency on oil and the need for alternative energy sources.
The Green Girls caught up with James during the screening to ask what lifestyle changes he had made to go “green.”
“I made a lifestyle change in 1975 when I became a vegetarian, and in ’94 when I became a vegan,” Cromwell said.
“If everybody would do that, we’d save a lot of water, a lot of land use, a lot wasted energy bringing protein to people through animals, a lot of suffering and a lot of greenhouse gases.”
“If people [would] just [cut out meat for] one meal a week, and then one day a week, and then maybe one week a year, they could make an incredible difference.”
Cromwell showed his humorous side when asked if he went “cold turkey” in going vegetarian.
“I went the whole hog,” he joked.
Cromwell sees going vegetarian as a “choice” rather than a “decision” because when you make decisions, it becomes an either/or situation and you “leave things out that are important,” rather than educating yourself on what makes a balanced veg diet and how to incorporate different foods into it.
Watch the video to hear the rest of the interview with James.
Warning: there is a creepy flashback of the early 90s Wayne’s World movie when The Green Girls play their musical slogan at the end of the video.
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February 20th, 2009 at 4:25 am
The guy’s a great actor and activist, but just one small thing. I’ve not seen anything about him being a holocaust survivor, or even Jewish, so that might just be an error.