“Non-dairy products all over the world… France, they give these things away. There is no charge for it. Here, there is an exorbitant charge,” Cromwell said as he sat with his hand pressed against the shop counter. “Why, when it is so important now to address climate change and understand violence against animals to continue to make the dairy products that are served here? There is no reason for it except greed.”
Police were called from the premises and reportedly asked the protesters to leave, which they did after around 30 minutes. It’s unclear how the actor got his hand off the counter, but he then showed the camera his palm, which appeared to still have the substance.
Cromwell became a vegetarian in 1974 and later became a vegan while playing Farmer Hoggett in “Babe.”
In a later interview, he recalled that in the 1995 project he was “working with a lot of animals and animal trainers. I was concerned about his well-being and then of course you have lunch and everything is in front of you, and I thought, ‘I should go for everything,’ so to speak. So I made that decision and stuck with it throughout the shoot. When I came back, I got involved with PETA.”
Cromwell has been arrested several times at PETA protests, in 2003 he was arrested along with four other activists from the group for trying to boycott a Wendy’s fast food chain restaurant during an animal rights rally in Virginia. Most recently he was arrested following a 2017 protest against SeaWorld’s treatment of killer whales.
Source: Ambito
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