‘May the Forks Be With You’: PETA Asks George Lucas to Make New Museum of Narrative Art Restaurant Servings 100% Vegan
For Immediate Release:
August 27, 2025
Contact:
Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
As the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art nears completion in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, PETA today sent a letter to legendary director George Lucas—who’s curating the collection himself—urging him to serve 100% vegan food at the futuristic site. PETA points out that the meat, egg, and dairy industries fuel the climate catastrophe like coaxium fuels a hyperdrive—and that Earth animals don’t want to be eaten any more than a Klatooine paddy frog does.
“Cows, chickens, and pigs feel pain and terror as much as any human, Wookiee, or Mon Calamari, and have no place on a plate in this progressive, futuristic venue,” says PETA Director Alicia Aguayo. “PETA encourages Mr. Lucas to strike back at animal abuse and environmental devastation by making his stellar new museum a wonderful vegan food fest.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness and free vegan starter kits for anyone thinking of making the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Lucas follows.
Dear Mr. Lucas,
Greetings from your many fans here at PETA. We can’t wait to visit the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art! Just as your films have inspired generations to imagine a better universe, your new museum has the power to set a shining example here on Earth by serving only vegan food in its restaurants.
Like the Galactic Empire, the meat, egg, and dairy industries are powerful, destructive, and cruel. Just as Klatooine paddy frogs don’t want to be eaten, chickens, turkeys, fish, pigs, and other animals want to live in peace, but in slaughterhouses, they have their throats slit and are dismembered, sometimes while still alive and able to feel pain. On dairy farms, calves are ripped from their mothers shortly after birth so that the milk meant for them can be sold to humans instead. And on egg farms, hens are packed together, wing to wing, in warehouse-like sheds and never go outside. These atrocities aren’t happening in a galaxy far, far away; they are happening right here on Earth. Fortunately, we all have the power to fight for animals, and we don’t even need light sabers to do it – just a spoon and fork to eat rootleaf stew (and other, tastier, vegan foods available on Earth).
Raising and killing animals for food is also polluting our water, destroying our forests, and filling our atmosphere with methane and carbon dioxide. The climate catastrophe is like a Death Star poised to destroy Earth, and we cannot simply hitch a ride on a transport to another planet – we must defend the only planet we have. When it comes to avoiding the worst effects of climate change, it’s do or do not. There is no try. One of the most effective daily things we can all do to stop Earth from hurtling toward climate catastrophe at light speed is to go vegan.
Thankfully, the future is vegan, and by making your museum’s dining options all vegan, you’d help visitors rebel against animal abuse, strike back against climate change, and awaken the force of kindness in a new generation.
Please, don’t be a nerf-herder; let this museum embody the inclusive and forward-thinking vision it celebrates.
May the forks be with you,
Alicia Aguayo
Director of Communications
PETA
