Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) recently attended the Genesis Awards to present CSI its winning statuette for the best drama category.

The Genesis Awards, organized by the Humane Society of the United States, recognizes news and entertainment media for raising awareness regarding animal issues. CSI was presented with the best drama honor for the episode "Unbearable," which dealt with the controversial topic of canned hunting.

Fox said it was an honor to be recognized by the organization. "It's an issue that was very close to Josh Berman's heart, the writer of the episode, and it deals with canned hunting, which is kind of a sort of big, widespread thing, particularly in rural America, obviously not too much in the cities. But people who have ranches and farms, there's a lot of money to be made."

"You can ship in exotic animals and stage a hunt," she explained. "This is an issue he became very passionately interested in and wrote it. And we rarely have shows, you know, in CSI, where we take strong stands about things. So it's kind of nice that he did and it's been recognized by this."

Fox has been a vegetarian and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) supporter for nearly 20 years, and still today finds time to rally for the organization. "I don't know what it was about it but, you know I... it was... those little moments," she said of deciding to give up meat. "I had friends and people that I had gone out with who were vegetarians, and bands that I liked [...] and it just kind of all came together over a meatball hero in Brooklyn one day and that was that."

Fox's other extracurricular activities include producing the play Dear Bernard, which, the actress revealed, will be heading out to London this month. "It's actually based on a true story of a young woman from a small town in England, that comes to America in the late sixties to follow her dreams. So, it's very, yeah, it takes advantage of New York City in the early seventies, it's a good story, a lot of heart."

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