07/29/2025
American actor and activist James Cromwell has said that he decided to go vegan on the second day of filming 1995’s Babe, a film about an orphaned pig learning to herd sheep.
Speaking to the Guardian this week, Cromwell said, “On the second day of filming, I broke for lunch before everybody else. All the animals I’d worked with that morning were on the table, cut up, fricasseed, roasted, and seared. That was when I decided to become a vegan.”
He explained that the film achieved its depiction of realistic animals by blending footage of real animals with prosthetics, puppets, and animatronics. Along with Cromwell, the film inspired many viewers to reexamine their own relationships with “food” animals like pigs.
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