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February 16, 2024
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Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
Tampa, Fla. – Sens. Jay Collins and Clay Yarborough and Reps. Danny Alvarez and Tyler Sirois of Florida just lately offered expenses that might preemptively ban the sale of cell-cultured meat within the state, so PETA fired off letters as of late to the lawmakers proposing that they title the ridiculous proposals “Particular Pursuits’ Grimy Behavior Retention Act of 2024” to mirror their true function—propping up particular passion teams on the expense of animals’ lives and people’ well being. The gang notes that, higher but, the lawmakers will have to scrap the expenses and as a substitute paintings to make certain that all Floridians know the way filthy and vicious manufacturing unit farming is and feature get entry to to recent and scrumptious vegan meals.
“Those bonehead expenses goal to soothe the declining meat business that’s scared of shedding extra consumers,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “This might be humorous, for the reason that in vitro meat is years clear of the marketplace, nevertheless it’s additionally tragic when Florida lawmakers wish to push an dangerous, environmentally damaging, and intensely merciless meals on their constituents simply to curry desire with their donors in animal agriculture.”
PETA notes that billions of cows, pigs, and chickens—clever, delicate people who really feel ache and worry—bear brief, depressing lives within the meat business, which topics them to excessive crowding, regimen mutilations with out ache reduction, a terrifying travel to the slaughterhouse, and a violent, painful loss of life through which their throats could also be slit whilst they’re nonetheless mindful. Animal agriculture additionally wreaks havoc at the setting, as the beef business is among the international’s biggest individuals to greenhouse fuel emissions and deforestation.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to consume”—issues out that Each and every Animal Is Any individual and gives unfastened Empathy Kits for individuals who desire a lesson in kindness. For more info, please seek advice from PETA.org or apply the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Collins follows. Letters to Yarborough, Alvarez, and Sirois are to be had upon request.
February 15, 2024
The Honorable Jay Collins
Florida State Senate
Expensive Senator Collins:
I’m writing on behalf of Other people for the Moral Remedy of Animals—PETA entities have greater than 9 million contributors and supporters globally, together with loads of 1000’s in Florida. It’s come to our consideration that you’ve offered SB 1084 to bar any individual within the state from what will have to be their proper to procure in vitro meat, if it will have to ever turn into to be had. Within the pursuits of transparency, we recommend that you simply rename your invoice the “Particular Pursuits’ Grimy Behavior Retention Act of 2024”—as a result of that’s in point of fact what it’s.
Or higher but, scrap this boneheaded invoice and redirect your efforts to making sure that each Floridian is aware of precisely how filthy and vicious manufacturing unit farming is and the way they may be able to revel in recent, scrumptious vegan meals presently, no wait, and with out supporting, as your invoice does, cruelty to animals.
In spite of your fears, cell-cultured meat might by no means materialize, however we wish to give meat the boot presently.
Animal agriculture is wreaking havoc at the setting—together with the expanding depth of storms and hurricanes ravaging Florida’s coasts. The beef business is among the international’s biggest individuals to greenhouse fuel emissions and deforestation, and I’m hoping our advice to call this invoice conjures up you to suppose arduous in regards to the favoritism being afforded to important pursuits that aren’t in the most efficient pursuits of Floridians and different people across the planet.
Differently, disgrace on you.
Sincerely,
Ingrid Newkirk
President