TreeHugger Star Search: Jake Gyllenhaal
by Summer Bowen, Santa Monica, California on 03.28.07
We’ve caught Jake Gyllenhaal riding his bike before, and we even knew he’d had $10,000 worth of trees planted in Mozambique. Gyllenhaal’s eco-celeb status doesn’t stop there - just last year the carbon neutral movie star joined Salma Hayek in raising awareness about the effects of global climate change on northern Canada’s indigenous people. Says Gyllenhaal, "Global warming is an abstract concept to most people; we know it's happening, but we can't really visualize its effect. Unfortunately, the Inuit people put a human face on global warming, they are literally melting away. They are the canary in the coal mine."
More recently, Gyllenhaal has been making smaller green lifestyle statements: arriving at Hollywood award shows in a bio-diesel powered eco-limo, driving his own Prius around LA, and sporting eco-fashionable organic cotton Loomstate jeans.
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It's too bad that, according to the New York Post, he likes to watch pigs get slaughtered.
That's certainly not cool to me, but if he's not a vegetarian or vegan, that just makes him less of an hypocrite than most meat eaters, I guess.
He's probably being quoted kind of out of context, he probably meant it in a "I like to go back to where food is produced" way, not in a "I specifically like to see pigs get killed".
..."less of a hypocrite than most meat eaters"...
Man, you can just smell the smug....
he's doing a great job, not seeking publicity for it, etc. He's a responsible citizen ;)
Welcome to the TH team, Summer! Yay!