{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"HappyCow","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog","author_name":"Ken Spector","author_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/kenvegan\/","title":"Interview - Natalie Portman \"Eating Animals\" Documentary Hits Theaters - HappyCow","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NaE8b0KsNc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/interview-natalie-portman-eating-animals-documentary-hits-theaters\/\">Interview &#8211; Natalie Portman &#8220;Eating Animals&#8221; Documentary Hits Theaters<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/interview-natalie-portman-eating-animals-documentary-hits-theaters\/embed\/#?secret=NaE8b0KsNc\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Interview &#8211; Natalie Portman &#8220;Eating Animals&#8221; Documentary Hits Theaters&#8221; &#8212; HappyCow\" data-secret=\"NaE8b0KsNc\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/natalie.png","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":984,"description":"&nbsp; &nbsp; Interview and Article by\u00a0Ken Spector\u00a0|\u00a0June 29, 2018 HappyCow&#8217;s Ken Spector spoke with Acadamy Award winning actress, producer, director and animal rights activist Natalie Portman, who has been vegetarian since she was nine years old. In 2009, while attending Harvard University, she read a book by Jonathan Safran Foer called &#8220;Eating Animals&#8221;. She received an early copy of the book from Foer, who she had met at one of\u00a0his book readings in 2002. She was inspired by the book and its portrayal of the cruelties of factory farming, and realized that eating dairy and eggs could also harm animals. This led her to remove dairy and eggs from her diet and became fully vegan.\u00a0 She called up Foer and told him she thought the book should be made into a documentary. It took nearly ten years for the\u00a0book to be produced into a documentary.\u00a0Portman serves as a co-producer with Foer and is the narrator of the film. The film focuses on the evils of factory farming. As Portman told Spector, &#8220;I want to make people more aware of what they eat. I felt there was a lot I didn&#8217;t know about where food comes from. Factory farming has replaced [&hellip;]"}