Actress Megan Fox says she and her husband (it’s a start, anyway) send their three young boys to “an organic, sustainable, vegan school” and teach that children that plants have “feelings, thoughts and emotions.”
“We send them to an organic, sustainable, vegan school where they’re seed-to-table, they plant their own food,” the “Transformers” star told People magazine during a charity outing with her husband on Monday. “They grow it, they harvest it and they take it to local restaurants to sell it, so they understand how all of that works.”
“I’m very specific about never harming animals,” continued Fox. “We don’t step on ants; we don’t do things like that. We don’t rip flowers out of the ground, because we think they’re beautiful. I teach them that plants are sentient beings — they have feelings, thoughts and emotions — so that’s what we’re doing.”
Pardon me. Did she just say that her children attend a vegan school? I assume that the children eat plants, there? I hope they aren’t traumatized by tiny green screams during lunch.
A vegetarian or vegan diet is the healthiest diet, according to a large majority of evidence. Most Seventh-day Adventists are vegetarian, and better off for it—minus kooky animistic notions about plants having emotions. I mean, who could ever believe that a rutabaga is sentient? Some Hollywood actresses, I guess.
Fox also recalled an incident where one of her sons accidentally stepped on a bug and the family held a funeral for it.
“My son accidentally stepped on a roly-poly once and he was devastated, and we had a full funeral for it,” the actress said. “We did a ceremony, we buried it, we lit sage, we released him back. So they’re very involved.”
Brian Austin Green, actor and husband to Fox, told People that he and Fox encourage their boys to be “whoever they are.”
“We don’t encourage them to be themselves, we just encourage whoever they are,” Green said. [HUH?]
“I know for me, [the more time passes,] the more I really realize and am okay with the fact that they are people.”
We are glad they are people too. I mean, if they were plants, they could be too emotional. Let’s face it, Hollyweird is getting even weirder. Consider tossing your television into the dumpster, and never support Hollywood by paying for their ‘movies.’ “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes” (Psalm 101:3).
Fox also made parenting headlines in September when she defended her choice to allow then-six-year-old Noah, a boy, to wear dresses to school. But that’s another story.
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Inspiration:
“Go from the presence of a foolish person, when you do not perceive in them the lips of knowledge. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit” (Proverbs 24:7-9).
“There are those who say that nothing, not even insects, should be killed. God has not entrusted any such message to His people. It is possible to stretch the command “Thou shalt not kill” to any limit; but it is not according to sound reasoning to do this. Those who do it have not learned in the school of Christ” (3SM 329.1).