Batters called for kindness to be shown to farmers and an understanding that they were “human” too.
“It’s very polarised and it’s doing enormous damage to the mental health of livestock farmers,” she said.
He has been called a diva and pretentious, and there are even those who don’t like his acting – but never before has Joaquin Phoenix been accused of causing mental health problems for British livestock farmers.
There might be a lot more meat reducers, but this is not an industry that has been threatened by veganism.”