UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Actress and activist Jane Fonda is campaigning for a treaty to save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring, and “are our brethren in the ocean.”
A day after talks resumed at U.N. headquarters to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world’s marine biodiversity, the 85-year-old Oscar winner told a news conference Tuesday that these marine creatures “play with us and they feel emotions — and how dare we so lack humility that we will risk killing them off for money and for food.”
For almost four years, Fonda said, she has been working with Greenpeace, and she came to New York to deliver 5.5 million signatures from people in 157 countries demanding a strong Global Ocean Treaty to Rena Lee, president of the U.N. negotiations. A key aim for the treaty is to turn 30% of the world’s oceans into marine sanctuaries by 2030 where fishing is banned.
Growing up in Santa Monica, California, Fonda said she loves the ocean and was at the beach every day that it was warm enough. And she said she has been scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, in the Galapagos in Ecuador, in the Caribbean, and elsewhere in the world.
“I’ve swum with some of the most magnificent creatures, and I know that they may very well be more intelligent than me,” Fonda said. “And I love them, and I think that we should all understand that we’re talking about saving the last great wild animals that are hunted for food.”
Fonda said the world can’t survive without healthy oceans, which scientists say provide 50% of the oxygen we breathe. But the oceans are subject to overfishing and pollution, including pieces of plastic that fish eat, she said.
The heating of the ocean as a result of climate change is also killing kelp beds that many marine creatures depend on to live, she said, and the leaching of fertilizer from industrial farms “is causing massive and expanding dead zones in the ocean.”
“The ocean is our ally,” Fonda said. “Let us love and respect it.”
Hervé Berville, France’s secretary of state for the sea who sat next to Fonda, said he believes “we have the political momentum” during negotiations that end on March 3 to overcome the remaining challenges and reach agreement on a treaty protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030.
Fonda warned that time is running out.
“Even dogs don’t poop in their kennel, because they know that the kennel provides security and a home for them,” she said. “We’re pooping in our kennel.”
Humans are destroying things they don’t understand, Fonda said.
“Why the treaty is important is it will force us to behave right, and to save this great ally that we have called the ocean — the one ocean on this blue planet that can save us,” she said. “There’s a lot at stake.”
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why?
are there n.v.a. in the ocean?
I’m sure there were plenty of her eigth armed Octopus brothers around her own Hollywood casting couches when Barbarella was cast, where to day, finding Nemo is now changed to finding Homo. and being 80 like Joe biden, can’t even find where they left the car keys or remember what Fotsam and Jetsom they ate for breakfast.
Hanoi Jane is a depraved mind with a voice of no consequence. That she has vapidly occupied the eye of press and public these many years in spite of her twisted hubris has kept me circumspect of the public discourse on any matter that interests her.
IF SHE Loves them so much, why doesn’t she go take a swim. WITH PIRANNAH!
I didn’t realize Hanoi Jane was still among the living. Guess I need to pay more attention to Hollyweird…not!
You beat me to it. I didn’t know this old traiteurs, liberal gasbag was still alive. Wonder if she has teamed up with others who think likewise? Greta Thunberg, John Kerry and a few others come to mind.
“A key aim for the treaty is to turn 30% of the world’s oceans into marine sanctuaries by 2030 where fishing is banned,” Starting with the Fonda Fish Farm that lies in the Piran Bay at the southern most point of the Slovenian sea noted for its most popular flavored Fonda Sea Bass, whose electric eel properties have been known to short-circuit Love Boats and Barbarella Love machines.
“I’ve swum with some of the most magnificent creatures, and I know that they may very well be more intelligent than me,”,,,,,having an I.Q. about 3 points over that of a Squiddly Diddly, who don’t know diddly when it comes to managing our oceans, and harvesting the produce. Those pieces of plastic that fish eat and choke on are probably from the leftover spread ashes of cremated over-plastic surgeon’d Hollywood stars like Fonda who get tossed overboard off the California coast
“Even dogs don’t poop in their kennel, because they know that the kennel provides security and a home”,,,,,, Like fish don’t poop where they eat,,,but it’s OK for we to eat them? Huh?
Man’s destiny is to take dominion over the fish, not think and become one.
Let’s see now. We can’t eat fish because their family members will be sad, we can’t raise cattle for food or milk because they fart and belch and we can’t raise crops because they need climate destroying fertilizer and water. Maybe Jane Fonda will take advantage of California’s new law at her death allowing bodies to be composted. That way she can at least give something back to the planet
Seriously; does any one think for one minute that if she weren’t trying to promote a failed movie she’s starring in we’d hear a word from her, no matter how preposterous?
Actress and activist Jane Fonda is campaigning for a treaty to save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring, and “are our brethren in the ocean.”
She was not concerned back when she was eating those Lobsters and shrimp and Crab legs in Hollywood and Colorado.
In my opinion she should have been arrested and put on trial for treason when she returned from Hanoi back during the Viet Nam war.
You got it brother!
MANY should have. Not just her.
There was a saying back in the late 60’s,
Can’t quite recall what it was, but it was sorta like “F Jane Fonda!!”
I have no idea what the F stood for……
Actress and communist activist Hanoi Jane Fonda is campaigning for a treaty to save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring, and “are our brethren in the ocean.”
Is this Hanoi Jane Fonda a vegetarian? If she is that is her choice.
How does she feel about the feelings of chickens, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, etc. ?
How does she feel about the feelings of the soldiers she betrayed in Vietnam?
Genesis 9:3-4
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
“save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring”. . . .but no problem with abortion. So screwed up.
Who in the flip outside of Hollywood cares what Jane what’s her name thinks or whines about? She gave up her right to even be in this country a long time ago. Why are the media even reporting on what anyone from Hollywood thinks or advocates for or against. Janes not even relevant anymore and should go to a nice expensive Nursing home in Southeast Asia so where to finish out her days. Anyone in Hollywood that thinks her and the other has been stars in the latest flop movie would make a profit should get a job where they don’t make decisions.
“I’ve swum with some of the most magnificent creatures, and I know that they may very well be more intelligent than me,” Fonda said.
I don’t doubt that statement one bit!
But if the fish are killing and eating each other, then what do we do about that?
She’s willing for humans to kill unborn babies, but wants to protect animals from being killed! Talk about being perverted!
Jane Fonda has been a communist airhead since her marriage to Tom Hayden, a New Left figure. She demonstrated intellectual shortcomings when getting lessons from Peter Collier on how to be a radical. Collier had a learning curve and had second thoughts, Collier along with David Horowitz became conservatives. They favored classical liberal ideas and anti-communism. By favoring sea creatures over human beings Fonda is consistent. Anything that is against human beings is just like communism.
“… our brethern in the ocean.”??? What is she talking about? I have no brethern in the ocean.
“…and I know that they may very well be more intelligent than me,” I have no doubt about that. I’ve had goldfish with more intelligents.
Like the saying goes, “There is a place for all of God’s creatures, right next to the peas and mashed potatoes.”
You must eat ze bugs. Klaus the Clown and Hanoi Jane have spoken.