Stephen Colbert: “Once we start treating animals better maybe we’ll start treating each other better”
Actress Natalie Portman was recently a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and as was the case with Alicia Silverstone, the pair talked veganism.
Colbert asked Portman about her film Eating Animals (now released in the United States) and told her about his seven-month period of being plant-based:
“For seven months starting right around now last year, for seven months, I had nothing that had eyes passed my lips. So like, nothing with a hoof, nothing with feathers, nothing with scales, no milk, no dairy or anything like that for seven months. I lost a bet.”
While Colbert consumes fish “at this point,” he added:
“My wife is so nice that she joined me, and she’s still doing it.”
He asked Portman how long she has been meat-free, to which she responded:
“I’ve been vegetarian since I was nine. And vegan more recently, I started like seven years ago, being vegan.”
She said her decision was based on moral, health and environmental concerns, noting the “awful conditions” of factory farms, which her film addresses.
Ending the segment, Portman stated that she believes in 100 years people will look back at the way animals were treated now as “inhumane,” to which Colbert responded:
“And then once we start treating animals better maybe we’ll start treating each other better.”
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