Peter Egan

Peter Egan is a British television actor best known for his roles in Ever Decreasing Circles and Downton Abbey. He also stars in the BBC’s Hold the Sunset and featured in Ricky Gervais’ Afterlife. 

Peter had been vegetarian for eight years before going vegan in 2016 after taking part in Veganuary. Since then he has campaigned tirelessly for the animals, supporting many causes and organisations.

In 2019, Peter became a Viva! Patron and as part of Viva!‘s 25th Anniversary, he was awarded with the Action for Animals Award for all of his hard work. Peter has supported Viva!‘s Hogwood campaign and gatecrashed the annual pig farming awards with Juliet and our campaigns team, projecting huge images of Hogwood farm on the wall. He has also shown his support for our 3 in 4 campaign on social media.

Our desire for flesh of the innocents seems insatiable and we are great at creating smokescreens to justify our cruelty. We slaughter 50 billion farmed animals yearly so that six billion carnivores can eat them. We slaughter endangered species in the disgusting world of trophy hunting under the guise of conservation. We watch foxes ripped apart or bulls tortured to death under the guise of culture and tradition. Humans are very strange. We are waging war on every species on the planet with the belief that it is our right.¹Gellatley, J. 2019. Peter Egan and the Meaning of Life. Viva!Life Issue 71 Spring 2019. Pp 8-9. Available: https://issuu.com/vivaweb5/docs/vl71_hi-compressed [Accessed 11 March 2021].

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