{"id":755468,"date":"2018-12-05T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755468"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:55:25","slug":"actor-james-cromwell-leads-protest-at-utah-capitol-with-11-dead-piglets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755468","title":{"rendered":"Actor James Cromwell Leads Protest at Utah Capitol With 11 Dead Piglets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The demonstrators went into the Utah State Capitol building to demand that both the governor and the attorney general address ongoing animal cruelty at Smithfield's Circle Four Farms.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quote-author-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ARK_Center.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"quote-author-name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEditor\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"quote-author-job\">The ARK Center<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NIKE OMEDO:<\/strong><em> &#8216; \u201cThis is what you\u2019re killing,\u201d Cromwell said of the dead piglets. \u201cDo you want to do this? As a country, as a people, \u2026 as Christians, do you want to do this?\u201d Animal rights activists are protesting animal cruelty at the Smithfield\u2019s Circle Four Farms in Milford with the help of Babe the Pig\u2019s famous owner, actor James Cromwell. Cromwell, who played Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 movie Babe, and Wayne Hsiung, co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), and about 200 demonstrators took their grievances to the Utah Attorney General\u2019s Office and the Utah Governor\u2019s Office last week. They had with them 11 dead piglets to drive home their message.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The demonstrators went into the Utah State Capitol building to demand that both the governor and the attorney general address ongoing animal cruelty at Smithfield. Cromwell had a dead piglet nestled in his arms, and 10 other activists bore dead piglets inside the government building. The dead animals were retrieved from a Utah farm. Since filming Babe, Cromwell has become a vegan and an animal rights and environmental activist. He has been arrested for protesting against animal testing, protesting a natural gas-fired power plant and for disrupting an orca show at SeaWorld&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/citizentruth.org\/james-cromwell-leads-protest-at-utah-capitol-with-11-dead-piglets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jf1pTOPC_Qk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIKE OMEDO: &#8216; \u201cThis is what you\u2019re killing,\u201d Cromwell said of the dead piglets. \u201cDo you want to do this? As a country, as a people, \u2026 as Christians, do you want to do this?\u201d Animal rights activists are protesting animal cruelty at the Smithfield\u2019s Circle Four Farms in Milford with the help of Babe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,21,25],"tags":[26,27,31,35],"class_list":["post-755468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755470,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755468\/revisions\/755470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}