{"id":338,"date":"2015-05-15T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-05-15T00:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:35:32","slug":"james-franco-animals-are-someone-not-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"James Franco: Animals Are Someone, Not Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He\u2019s spoken out about captive orcas, he\u2019s pledged to help chimps and now animal lover and actor James Franco is partnering up with Farm Sanctuary to help farm animals.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar nominated actor appears in a new video for the organization that rescues abused farm animals and gives them a second chance at life<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to me how easily we can compartmentalize our relationships with animals. It\u2019s easy to draw that distinction between the animals we eat like pigs, cows and lambs and animals that we live with like dogs and cats,\u201d he explains in the video while images of the happy animals at the Farm Sanctuary fill the screen.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to talk about his own relationship to all animals and how to him, such a distinction does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t help but compare farm animals to my cats,\u201d he says of Sammy and Zelda, his beloved felines. \u201cI look into their eyes and realize they\u2019re someone, not just something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But cats are not the only animals he\u2019s looking at. Franco also says when a cow comes up to you and gives kisses, it\u2019s just \u201cincredible\u201d and that\u2019s the reason why he supports \u201cFarm Sanctuary\u2019s work to protect farm animals from cruelty and change the way society views and treats these incredible animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then urges people to check out Farm Sanctuary\u2019s website  and work because \u201cat the end of the day, it\u2019s all about compassion and a more compassionate world begins with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We couldn\u2019t have phrased it any better!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_oZ2R_LAxY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecorazzi.com\/2015\/05\/14\/james-franco-animals-are-someone-not-something\/\">source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s spoken out about captive orcas, he\u2019s pledged to help chimps and now animal lover and actor James Franco is partnering up with Farm Sanctuary to help farm animals. The Oscar nominated actor appears in a new video for the organization that rescues abused farm animals and gives them a second chance at life \u201cIt\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}