PHOTO: James Cameron – a change of heart?
Cameron and his wife, environmentalist Suzy Amis Cameron, own about 1500 hectares of land in South Wairarapa, which they are transforming into an organic vegetable farm.
They are big proponents of plant-based diets and have been outspoken about the need to move away from animal products to improve the environment.
That’s prompted some criticism from Wairarapa locals who say they are not walking the talk when it comes to being “animal-free”, given there are hundreds of cows on the Camerons’ farm.
Cameron has however defended the cattle grazing, saying while the animals would be phased off the farm, that work had been delayed by Covid-19.
“Our plan to expand the veggie operation and get the animals off basically sort of got derailed by the pandemic, because we needed a lot more labour for the veggie operation than we do to run the stock, and our access to labour from the Solomon Islands or Philippines and things like that basically just went away.
“So we’ve been in a holding pattern for a year but that initiative starts soon.”
They said more cattle had not been brought onto the farm since the start of the pandemic and most had been grazed in the same areas of the farm since they bought it in 2012.
BUT a couple of years ago – here the Avatar Director James Cameron talks about the plant-based lifestyle being the best way to help ourselves and reduce climate change catastrophic impact…..
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