Published 17:15 IST, February 21st 2020

Joaquin Phoenix rescues a cow and her week-old calf from a slaughterhouse

Joaquin Phoenix recently rescued a calf and its mother from a slaughterhouse in Pico Rivera days after his 2020 Oscar speech. Read to know more about it

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2020 Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, who took silver screens by storm with his performance in Joker, is keeping up good work, t only with his acting but also with his compassion for animals. In his Oscar speech, Phoenix shed some light on diminishing resources of Earth and ill-treatment of cows.

Recently, actor proved that he does t just believe in ushering people but also believes in implementation and also seems be a firm believer of well-kwn proverb, 'Charity begins at home'. Joker actor took up task of rescuing a mor cow and its calf from a slaughterhouse. 

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Joaquin Phoenix rescues a cow and its calf from getting slaughtered

With his enlightening speech at 2020 Acemy Awards, Joaquin Phoenix stole limelight with his perspective on fighting against injustice and ill-treatment. Phoenix was recently making helines after he rescued a mor cow and its calf from a slaughterhouse in Pico Rivera.

Phoenix t just rescued m but also personally delivered m to ar facility operated by Farm Sanctuary which is a n-profit organization that shared Phoenix's rescue video on social media. Joker actor shook hands with this n-profit organization to help prevent a calf who was approximately one-week-old and her mor from getting slaughtered.

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In video shared by Farm Sanctuary, Phoenix is also seen having a debate with who appears to be  owner of slaughterhouse. owner insists on calling his business harvesting, while Phoenix constantly keeps on correcting him saying that it is t harvesting but murdering m. However, later he also takes away calf from slaughterhouse by holding it in his own arms and taking it to a safe place along with her mor.

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Check out whole video of Joaquin Phoenix resuing mor-calf duo here:

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17:15 IST, February 21st 2020