When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.
You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires...' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.
I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.
Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
