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September 29, 2023
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Baton Rouge, Los angeles. – To memorialize the handfuls of pigs struck by way of automobiles and killed alongside the Mississippi River Bridge closing Tuesday after the animals fell from an open gate at the again of a shipping truck, PETA plans to position a sky-high message close to the web site in their deaths proclaiming, “See the Person. Pass Vegan.”
“Pigs died in agony and terror after their our bodies hit the pavement and automobiles slammed into them, and traumatized survivors have been put again onto the truck and despatched to slaughter,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA encourages somebody disturbed by way of the considered animals loss of life beneath a automotive to increase that sympathy to the pigs who die beneath the slaughterhouse knife and pass vegan.”
In these days’s meat business, mom pigs are squeezed into slim steel stalls slightly greater than their our bodies and saved nearly repeatedly pregnant or nursing. Pigs’ tails are chopped off, their enamel are lower with pliers, and men are castrated—all with none ache aid. On the slaughterhouse, they’re hung the wrong way up—incessantly whilst nonetheless aware—and bled to dying. Each and every one that is going vegan spares the lives of just about 200 animals each and every yr.
PETA notes that there were no less than 45 injuries involving vehicles wearing animals used for meals up to now this yr and that there have been no less than 89 closing yr.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to devour”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please talk over with PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.