{"id":6956,"date":"2014-01-22T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2014-01-24T06:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:02:43","slug":"interview-jo-ann-mcarthur-photographer-activist-ghosts-in-our-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/interview-jo-ann-mcarthur-photographer-activist-ghosts-in-our-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jo-Anne McArthur &#8211; photographer, activist, Ghosts In Our Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/InterviewJoAnnMcArthur_Bannernew.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7192 aligncenter\" alt=\"InterviewJoAnnMcArthur_Bannernew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/InterviewJoAnnMcArthur_Bannernew.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/InterviewJoAnnMcArthur_Bannernew.png 600w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/InterviewJoAnnMcArthur_Bannernew-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we sit down with Jo-Anne McArthur to learn more about her, her passions, her journey, and the importance of telling the stories of those who can&#8217;t speak for themselves. The newly released documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostsinourmachine.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">The Ghosts In Our Machine<\/a>\u00a0directed by Liz Marshall, tells the story of abused animals through the eyes and lens of Jo-Anne. Her photographs are captivating and show clearly the emotions and feelings of her subjects who are used\u00a0for food, clothing, entertainment and biomedical research. It&#8217;s a must-see film.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HC: Why did you go vegan? Was it an overnight transition or did it happen overtime?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The long transition was to vegetarianism, but going vegan was overnight and it\u2019s sort of a\u00a0fun story. More than ever, I was getting into animal rights and I decided I\u2019d benefit from an\u00a0internship at Farm Sanctuary, where I could learn more about animals, and rights. One of\u00a0the requirements to the internship is that you be vegan for its duration, out of respect for\u00a0the animals and other reasons. I thought \u201cHm, well that\u2019s a bit extreme, but I\u2019ll do it, and\u00a0go back to being vegetarian after the internship\u201d. To my surprise, after one day of being\u00a0vegan, I actually felt a weight had lifted, I felt almost elated that I\u2019d gone a day without\u00a0harming anyone, and it felt right. That was April 1st, 2003 and no, I didn\u2019t go back to being vegetarian. What I learned over time was that eating a plant-based diet isn\u2019t extreme, it\u2019s\u00a0the needless killing of billions of animals each year, not to mention the rape of the planet in\u00a0the process, that\u2019s extreme. I\u2019m so happy to be vegan!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoAnnpig.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6961\" alt=\"JoAnnpig\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoAnnpig-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoAnnpig-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoAnnpig-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoAnnpig.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HC: What inspires or pushes you to tell the stories of animals abused in our modern\u00a0world?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, we all have different skills, things we\u2019re good at, things we love to do. I\u2019m a story-teller by nature (got it from my mom!) and ever curious to find out what\u2019s going on behind\u00a0what we think is going on. Becoming a photographer made sense to me, as I\u2019m endlessly\u00a0curious, love to record everything and need a creative outlet. Over time I realized I could\u00a0combine my passions \u2013 photography, and, my concern for animals \u2013 to help make the world\u00a0a better place for our non-human kin. It\u2019s so important that lots of people share stories\u00a0about animal abuse so that we can collectively pull back the veil on these atrocities, and\u00a0show industry not just at the macro but the micro level as well. For example, showing a\u00a0factory farm with 5,000 turkeys in one shed is important, but equally important is getting\u00a0close and documenting the individuals that make up the 5,000. In that way, we can feel\u00a0more, perhaps relate more, to the individuals, to the suffering, and to the enormity of the\u00a0injustice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ghosts.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6962\" alt=\"ghosts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ghosts.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ghosts.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ghosts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ghosts-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HC: Why is it important for us to know the truth about how animals are treated?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t change or care unless we know. Unless we\u2019re told, shown, explained. Exposing the\u00a0truth is the only hope for animals. And animals are like us \u2013 sentient \u2013 capable of joy and\u00a0fear and curiosity and all of those great things, so if we can show that animals suffer as we\u00a0do, the \u201ctruth\u201d of animal cruelty becomes all the more urgent. And it is so urgent. It\u2019s an\u00a0emergency, truly, all of this needless suffering; I hope that more and more of us can see it\u00a0as such.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HC: What went on your holiday table?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh boy. I\u2019m sort of all about whole foods these days. The table had copious amounts\u00a0of mashed potatoes. I love them with a bit of nutmeg and olive oil. Also, some long\u00a0green beans with toasted sesame seeds along with roasted brussel sprouts with\u00a0chestnuts, in my not-so-secret recipe including mustard seeds, balsamic, maple syrup and garlic. I\u2019ll make my mad cheese\/garlic sauce (nutritional yeast!) and pour it on\u00a0something. And Tofurky? Sigh. Gimme some of that. With my homemade mushroom gravy!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for those I cook for, I have no sweet tooth, so they will have to DIY. Having said that, I recently ate some doughnuts at Dun-Well Doughnuts in Brooklyn. OMG. Think they deliver\u00a0to Toronto?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6958\" alt=\"Ghosts_eating\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ghosts_eating-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HC: Do you have a favorite dish you serve to non-vegans that wins them over?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like to veganize the comfort foods, like grilled cheese sandwiches and BLTs, pesto, mac \u2018n\u00a0cheese. I also make colossal salads and the key is to serve them all spread out on a large\u00a0dish and not in a bowl. All the good stuff falls to the bottom of a bowl! On a large plate, all\u00a0the ingredients can be laid out and beautiful, that way it looks uber appetizing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HC: What is your favorite veg restaurant in the world?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I travel a lot with my work and one of the joys of that is discovering vegan restaurants around the globe.\u00a0They are everywhere! One favourite? Really? Don\u2019t make me choose. Hogtown Vegan in Toronto. Aux\u00a0Vivres in Montreal. Blossom and Candle 79 in New York City. Sage Bistro in Los Angeles. Finding a Maoz\u00a0on any busy corner in Europe is always a dream: cheap falafels and huge salads! The $1 dinner stands in\u00a0Luang Prabang. Ethos in Bangkok. The kitchens on the Sea Shepherd boats!<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Liz Marshall<\/strong><br \/>\nLiz Marshall is a Gemini-nominated, award-winning auteur filmmaker who fuses character-driven cinematic storytelling with social and environmental justice issues. Since the 90s she has created a body of documentary projects shot all over the world which focus on a range of subjects including: animal use and animal sentience; the right to water movement; HIV\/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; sweatshop labor; censorship affecting writers and journalists, war-affected children; music icons and the written and spoken word. Liz is well versed in the craft of conceptual point-of-view storytelling as a means of exploring complex issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Jo-Anne McArthur<\/strong><br \/>\nAward-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur has been documenting the plight of animals on all seven continents for over ten years. Her documentary project, We Animals, is internationally celebrated and over 100 animal organizations, among them Igualdad Animal, Sea Shepherd and the Jane Goodall Institute, have benefited from her photography. Many organizations have also worked with her closely on campaigns and investigations. The first We Animals photo book is being published by Lantern Books in late Fall 2013. Recent awards and accolades include: Co-recipient (with Liz Marshall) of the 2013 Compassion for Animals Award in Toronto; the 2011 Canadian Empathy Award (art category); one of CBC&#8217;s Top 50 Champions of Change; Farm Sanctuary&#8217;s 2010 &#8220;Friend of Farm Animals&#8221; award; HuffPost WOMEN&#8217;s &#8220;Top 10 Women trying to change the world&#8221;; one of 20 activists featured in the book The Next Eco Warrior; and the &#8220;Shining World Compassion Award&#8221; by Supreme Master Ching Hai.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How can you get involved?<\/strong><\/em> Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostsinourmachine.com\/fortheghosts\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">The Ghosts In Our Machine website<\/a> to find out how you can help spread the message and help animals everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we sit down with Jo-Anne McArthur to learn more about her, her passions, her journey, and the importance of telling the stories of those who can&#8217;t speak for themselves. The newly released documentary, The Ghosts In Our Machine\u00a0directed by Liz Marshall, tells the story of abused animals through the eyes and lens of Jo-Anne. Her photographs are captivating and show clearly the emotions and feelings of her subjects who are used\u00a0for food, clothing, entertainment and biomedical research. It&#8217;s a must-see film. HC: Why did you go vegan? Was it an overnight transition or did it happen overtime? The long transition was to vegetarianism, but going vegan was overnight and it\u2019s sort of a\u00a0fun story. More than ever, I was getting into animal rights and I decided I\u2019d benefit from an\u00a0internship at Farm Sanctuary, where I could learn more about animals, and rights. One of\u00a0the requirements to the internship is that you be vegan for its duration, out of respect for\u00a0the animals and other reasons. 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