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April 5, 2024
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Norfolk, Va. – Following information that one more fowl flu outbreak is sweeping the nation and almost 2 million chickens have been killed by Texas-based egg vendor Cal-Maine Meals Inc., PETA is hitting cities throughout the nation with a multipronged marketing campaign warning of the hazards of continuous to eat meat, eggs, and dairy from animals confined to filthy, severely crowded sheds or feedlots and inspiring folks to take the easy and apparent step of going vegan.
PETA is speaking with advert firms about inserting a stark, sky-high warning close to Cal-Maine’s Texas operation and in main cities throughout the nation, reminding everybody that farms, feedlots, and slaughterhouses are breeding grounds for a bunch of lethal pathogens that may simply mutate and unfold to people.
PETA’s sky-high warning
PETA supporters took motion within the Lone Star State yesterday by flocking to Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, the place they gave away dozens of scrumptious vegan hard-boiled WunderEggs and dished out free vegan starter kits with suggestions and recipes for consuming vegan.
Credit score: PETA
“Hell on Wheels”—PETA’s life-size, hyper-realistic rooster transport truck coated with photos of actual chickens crammed into crates on their method to slaughter—is within the midst of a cross-country tour and is at the moment in Mississippi, close to Cal-Maine’s headquarters, bombarding diners with precise recorded sounds of dying birds’ cries together with a subliminal message each 10 seconds suggesting that individuals go vegan. The vexatious car delivers the horrors of the slaughterhouse straight to restaurant patrons who could also be considering of chowing down on fried rooster throughout lunch and can quickly be on its method to Arkansas and Louisiana.
Credit score: PETA
Hell on Wheels. Credit score: PETA
“Consuming meat, eggs, and dairy from deplorable operations the place 1000’s and even hundreds of thousands of animals are confined amid their very own waste not solely is disgusting but in addition will unquestionably result in one other pandemic,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges everybody to go vegan now, earlier than it’s too late.”
PETA factors out that almost all of illnesses which have triggered the pandemic or epidemics in recent times originated in animals earlier than being transmitted to people, together with COVID-19, AIDS, avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Zika. Strains of avian flu have already unfold, decimating wild fowl populations across the globe.
For these seeking to preserve pathogens off their plates or just keep away from paying skyrocketing egg costs, PETA provides a roundup of scrumptious, animal-friendly, and secure vegan egg choices in addition to a vegan egg replacer information for residence cooks.
Final yr alone, a minimum of 58 million birds confined on farms have been systematically killed to restrict the unfold of the virus, typically utilizing horrific strategies, together with air flow shutdown (VSD), a protracted and terrifying course of through which staff shut off all airflow to the sheds through which the animals are stored, slowly suffocating them; VSD Plus, which includes including warmth or fuel to the air, depriving the animals of oxygen, and elevating the temperature to as excessive as 120 levels, primarily baking them alive; and slowly suffocating them with a substance much like firefighting foam.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to eat”—factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and provides free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on X, Fb, or Instagram.
