Sam Neill Urged To Evolve Beyond Jurassic Park Meat Eating Mentality
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 14th, 2009 in Actors, Not So Vegetarian, Videos.
Sam Neill has been starring in television advertisements for Australia’s Meat and Livestock industry. The ads promote red meat as a vital contributor to brain health and feature such taglines as “Meat – you’d be silly not to eat it”.
Jason Baker, director of PETA Asia-Pacific, has sent Neill a letter suggesting alternative mottos, such as “Meat: It’s What’s Rotting in Your Colon”.
“Seeing you pimp for an industry that is linked to the main killers of human beings as well as of animals is, well, sad,” Baker wrote.
Baker goes on to mention that people with higher IQs are more likely to go vegetarian.
Baker plays upon Neill being famous for his role in the 1993 science fiction thriller Jurassic Park.
“Won’t you agree that it’s time to evolve, choose a plant-based diet and leave Jurassic tastes in the dust (since the meat habit will cause the extinction of us all)?”
Here’s an example of the ads showing that feature Neill.
via thewest.com.au
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July 14th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Who the hell do PETA think they are? They have no right to criticise anyone for choosing to eat meat. Just as nobody has the right to criticise them for not eating meat.
Sam Neill promotes eating lean meat as part of a healthy diet. How can that possibly be criticised? He is not promoting a “meat only” diet. Seems to me that he is promoting responsible and healthy eating. A lot of vegetarians I know have to take dietary supplements to compensate for what they miss out on by not eating meat. Hardly a natural way of obtaining the nutrients required for a healthy lifestyle.
PETA says that people with high IQ’s are vegetarian. Maybe they should use their IQ’s and educate themselves on this thing called the Food Chain. PETA just seems to be a group of celebreties who want to part of the latest trend of being vegetarian. Humans have been omnivores for quite some time now. So why do PETA think that we suddenly all should become vegetarians???
As for cruelty to animals, where do you draw the line? Slaughterhouses actually kill animals quickly and with minimal suffering when compared to what can happen in the wild. Is PETA going to take their campaign to the jungles of Africa and preach to lions that their methods of killing their prey is unnecessarily cruel? Of course not – because that is quite ridiculous. However, humans have evolved in such a way that we have recognsed that killing an animal with a spear is cruel and results in prolonged suffering. Hence the creation of slaughterhouses to facilitate a quick death with minimal pain.
PETA – wake up to yourselves and stop the irresponsible campaigning on vegetarianism.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Hate to break it to you Simon, but the cruelty in slaughterhouses is nowhere near the cruelty of the real world, where animals have a chance to run from their predators.
Besides, when was the last time you watched a predator/prey episode on the nature channel about chickens and cows, the most common types of animals eaten for food? We’re not talking about animals in the wild.
As far as the IQ thing is concerned, sorry, but true.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/59220.php
Vegetarians are educated about the food chain-which is why we know something so high on the food chain like meat is a waste of resources-land, water-and harmful to the environmentally just as it is our bodies.
Supplements are sometimes required for those who don’t meat. But I can assure you, the setback or inconvenience in this is far less than the diseases people suffer from eating meat-even in moderate amounts.
No one said I agree with PETA completely. But I do think you’re wrong about meat eating-even in moderation-being okay and healthy.