[ad_1] GAP: In response to a partial World Health Organization (WHO) call for action – to suspend the sale of live mammals in food markets – PETA is appointing PETA Asia Director Jason Baker to the agency’s executive board.With Expert Baker, perhaps we can make intelligent and timely security decisions.PETA, PETA Asia and our other affiliates have conducted research and we know that future zoonotic diseases cannot be prevented by restricting the sale of only live mammals in food markets. Didn’t bird flu teach the world anything? These are not only mammals and not only food markets – the sale…
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[ad_1] Have you chosen for the Oscars? What about the OScats? PETA celebrates outstanding achievements in animal rights protection annually with films with the Oscat Awards. Previous winners include Bradley Cooper, Black Panther, Natalie Portman, Tom Hanks, The lion kingand Charlize Theron in a mix of traditional and unique categories.So who will take the golden cat home this year? Without further ado, here 2020 PETA Oscats Winners…Best Animated Film: Wolf worshipersWritten and co-written with vegan director Tomm Moore, this Irish animated film follows a family of wolves fighting to protect their pack from humans who want to destroy them and…
[ad_1] PETA worked with a cow, a sheep and an ostrich couple to present an extraordinary ad at the 2021 Costume Designers Guild Awards: Design Vegan! Dress up as a vegan! “When a cow asks: “Hey, who is wearing you?” he hopes the answer is not his friend. We want all costume designers to know they can change the world simply by creating the same stunning costumes that they always have, but without the use of animals. Costume designers, actors and the public recognize that leather, wool, down and other animal materials are abused, maimed and killed, and choose ethical…
[ad_1] For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382 Washington – Below is a statement by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk in response to a new statement by the World Health Organization that, due to the threat of zoonoses from live animal markets, it is urging governments to suspend trade in live mammals:The World Health Organization (WHO) has now taken one of two steps that PETA has required of it over a year of appeals, clandestine videotapes of live animal markets, blood-soaked protests, and collecting signatures from over 200,000 people. supporters. WHO recommends suspending the trade in live wild mammals, but ignores…
[ad_1] For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382 Butterfield, Minnesota. – Armed with a recently released USDA report that said more than 25,000 chickens transported from Ohio were left on trailers outside the Butterfield Foods slaughterhouse overnight as cold winds plummeted to minus 32 degrees – slowly and painfully killed more than 9,100 birds, – sent PETA. a letter today to Watonwan County Attorney Stephen Lindy urging him to review the matter and bring any felony charges against site management and workers responsible for the suffering and death of birds.“Many chickens froze to death and the survivors had almost no…
[ad_1] For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382 Tuscaloosa, Alabama. – Armed with condemning USDA reports stating fully conscious chickens were scalded to death for at least four days at the Bay Springs, Mississippi slaughterhouse owned by local Peco Farms, Inc., PETA sent a letter to Bay Springs today … Attorney Joseph T. Sims asks him to address the matter and bring charges of cruelty to animals against the plant and responsible workers, as appropriate. PETA recently received federal records through a public records request.The inspectors noted that none of the birds had their throats cut before they drowned or…
[ad_1] Twenty years later, a bill drafted by a late senator acts as a death sentence for owls at the JHU, violating the expiration clause of the U.S. Constitution.For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382 Raleigh, North Carolina – PETA says it is time to repeal the Federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) amendment, sponsored by the late U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, and has filed a lawsuit to repeal it. In one of his most recent acts as a legislator, Helms, a well-known opponent of civil rights and animal welfare, made sure that laboratory-raised poultry, rats and mice…
[ad_1] For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382 Blair, Wisconsin. “This afternoon, TeachKind, PETA’s Humane Education Division, sent letters to Superintendent Jeffrey S. Eide of the Blair Taylor School District and all district counselors urging them to teach compassion lessons. The appeal follows reports that two local teenagers have been charged with a felony related to a video in which young men torture a possum, including pouring beer into its throat, throwing weights at it and stabbing it with a knife. One teenager reportedly confessed to beheading an animal with an ax.“If these reports are correct, this possum suffered a…
[ad_1] For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:But back 202-483-7382 Washington – Many of President Biden’s orders were aimed at overturning the actions of his predecessor – and this afternoon PETA sent POTUS a letter urging him to overturn waivers issued during the administration of former President Trump, which allow poultry houses to work in slaughterhouses at breakneck speed with birds sweeping by like this quickly that no one on the slaughter line can properly check for disease or guarantee stunning.PETA notes that higher line speeds result in worker error, putting the bird at risk of being killed while awake or scalded…
[ad_1] For immediate release:April 13, 2021Contact:Moira Collie 202-483-7382 New York “When will LVMH make the smart decision to abandon the dangerous and brutal trade in mink, alligator, fox and python skins and invest in the future?” This is a question posed by PETA, which has been a shareholder of LVMH since 2017, ahead of the fashion group’s general meeting on Thursday.PETA notes that the fur industry is directly involved in the spread of the new coronavirus. Outbreaks have been reported in fur farms in Canada, Denmark, where a variant of the mink disease has infected people – in France, Greece,…