Canadian actor and musician. According to the organization Mercy for Animals, Ryan Gosling is one of the most active in the fight for animal rights.
He speaks out against cruelty in the dairy and meat industries. It urges urgent improvement of the conditions in which farm animals live and calls for the abolition of factory farms in which these animals are tortured and abused. Ryan Gosling has written several open letters to the US Department of Agriculture with PETA. For example, he called for a ban on the extermination of birds by the method of suffocation in foam.
In 2017, he starred in the film Blade Runner 2049. Gosling’s character wears the iconic coat, which is traditionally made from sheepskin. However, Canadian designer Renée April made Gosling this laminated cotton coat based on his requests. Together with their long-time partner Eva Mendes, they point to this issue of the fashion industry. They support a number of campaigns by the PETA organization, which draw attention to the boycott of fur and other animal elements used by fashion brands.