Get on a jet
at Lambert and it will take you three hours to get to LAX.
But last
Sunday night, Joaquin Phoenix moved us even further away. The actor’s comments
made it easy to understand why the Oscar presentation saw a 20-percent drop in
viewership from last year’s show. Our poll at the radio station had 93-percent
of the respondents say they didn’t see the show.
Phoenix used
his acceptance speech to lecture America about the exploitation of dairy cows
by farmers.
“We feel
entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby even though her
cries of anguish are unmistakable,” he said. “Then we take her milk that’s
intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.”
Guilty. I
also eat cheese….and I pillage eggs from hens. Let’s not even get into the
sacrifice made by hogs for my breakfast.
Making dairy
farmers into the enemy for providing the country with fresh milk is a perfect
example of why Mid-America can’t force itself to watch the Academy Awards.
Just last
month, Phoenix was arrested in Washington where he spoke about the link between
agriculture and climate change….right after he got off a jet with a huge carbon
footprint.
It was once
said----the only cure for hypocrisy is irony.
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