The Last Anniversary Actor Danielle Macdonald Stars in New ‘Love Them, Don’t Eat Them’ PETA Campaign

For Immediate Release:
March 27, 2025

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Actor Danielle Macdonald—known for her roles in Dumplin’, Patti Cake$, and The Tourist, and who will soon be starring in Nicole Kidman’s new dramedy series, The Last Anniversary (March 30 on AMC+)—is standing in solidarity with all females in a new PETA campaign encouraging everyone to go vegan to spare the lives of cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals whose reproductive systems are routinely used and abused in the meat, egg, and dairy industries.

In an accompanying video, Macdonald is joined by her best friends as they discuss how sisterhood should extend to all species.

“Women’s rights and animal rights are entirely intersected. It is a feminist issue,” Macdonald says in the video. “When we talk about the dairy industry, or we talk about chicken and eggs, these animals are forcibly impregnated. One of the main reasons that we’re vegan is because every meal is an opportunity to choose kindness and to reject industries that exploit animals.”

Females of other species feel pain and fear just as intensely as human women do, yet they’re routinely exploited for human use. In the meat industry, mother pigs spend their entire adult lives confined to cramped metal crates, in which they cannot even turn around. In the dairy industry, cows are repeatedly forcibly impregnated to ensure a steady supply of milk—and are sent to slaughter once their bodies wear out after repeated pregnancies. In the egg industry, hens are typically confined to less than one square foot of space, parts of their beaks are cut off, and they’re shipped to slaughter once their bodies wear out.

Macdonald is part of a long list of celebrities—including Alicia Silverstone, Pamela Anderson, and Joaquin Phoenix—who have teamed up with PETA to promote kindness to animals.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help those looking to make the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.