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December 1, 2022
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Moira Colley 202-483-7382
Los Angeles – Artistic artist Betsy Baytos has animated for Disney, carried out in The Muppet Present, and designed for Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville model. Now she’s dreamed up a brand new line of colorfully illustrated T-shirts, tote luggage, and mugs for the PETA Store, on sale simply in time for the vacation season. The designs characteristic mom cows, chickens, and orcas with their infants, and all income from merchandise gross sales go immediately towards supporting PETA’s important work for animals.
“These Betsy Baytos designs are vital for variety individuals in every single place who care about serving to child animals and their moms,” says PETA Affiliate Director of Merchandise Tanner Hatfield. “With this assortment, PETA is encouraging everybody to unfold a message of peace and compassion for all animals throughout the holidays and each day.”
Baytos’ assortment will increase consciousness of the plight of animals who’re denied the chance to boost their younger or do something that’s pure and necessary to them. Within the dairy business, calves are torn away from their loving moms in order that the milk meant for them could be bought to people. As soon as their our bodies put on out after repeated pregnancies, they’re despatched to slaughter. Within the egg business, parts of hens’ beaks are lower off, they usually spend their total lives in reeking sheds, used as egg-producing machines till they’re despatched to slaughter. And at marine abusement parks comparable to SeaWorld, child orcas have been snatched away from their moms, confined to cramped tanks, and compelled to carry out meaningless tips for screaming crowds.
Recognized for her iconic, whimsical character and product designs, Baytos has delighted audiences as a choreographer and have animator for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, The Rescuers, and The Emperor’s New Groove; carried out in The Muppet Present in London; and consulted with Cirque du Soleil and Common Studios Japan. At the moment, she’s at work on a youngsters’s e book collection targeted on the local weather disaster and African wildlife.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals usually are not ours to eat, use for leisure, or abuse in every other means”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.