Animal rights group PETA has reacted after the demise of Diane Keaton, who was a vocal animal rights lobbyist. The legendary actress, identified for her roles in Father of the Bride, First Wives Membership, and extra, died in California on Saturday, October 11, aged 79, Folks reported.
PETA reacts
“Diane Keaton’s impression as an excellent and proficient actor is plain, however PETA will at all times keep in mind her as a real pal to animals,” PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange stated in an announcement to Males’s Journal on October 11. “At each flip, she used her platform to champion animals, from advocating kindness towards animals typically ignored, reminiscent of pigeons, to taking over abusive cub-petting operations by endorsing the Massive Cat Public Security Act, to ditching meat and reminding everybody that ‘it’s nuts’ to eat animals.”
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“Diane’s coronary heart was evident in all the things she did, and he or she shall be drastically missed by all of us at PETA,” the assertion added.
Keaton opened up about being a vegetarian in a 2020 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald. “I don’t eat meat, I’m a vegetarian and I’ve been a vegetarian for 25 years and I’ve stopped even consuming fish,” she stated on the time. “I ended 5 years in the past. I don’t wish to eat one thing that was an animal.”
After Keaton’s demise, a spokesperson for the Annie Corridor star stated, “There are not any additional particulars out there presently, and her household has requested for privateness on this second of nice disappointment.”
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The Los Angeles Fireplace Division (LAFD) instructed Folks that they responded to Keaton’s dwelling at 8:08 am native time and took a 79-year-old lady to an area hospital.
Keaton by no means married, and stated in a 2019 interview with Folks that she was the “just one in my technology of actresses” who remained single endlessly. “At the moment I used to be considering, I am the one one in my technology of actresses who has been a single lady all her life,” she stated. “I am actually glad I did not get married. I am an oddball. I keep in mind in highschool, this man got here as much as me and stated, ‘At some point you are going to make an excellent spouse.’ And I assumed, ‘I do not wish to be a spouse. No.’”