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November 11, 2022
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Jacksonville, Fla. – Motorists headed to the Better Jacksonville Agricultural Truthful—the place pigs are served as meals and compelled to race for spectators’ amusement—will see a sky-high enchantment from a pair of pigs, who’re urging attendees to have a coronary heart and chorus from sentencing pigs to depressing lives and terrifying deaths for nothing greater than a fleeting style. The message is PETA’s and comes as a reported 49% of Individuals specific an curiosity in consuming extra vegan meals.
“Pigs are considering, feeling people who’re afraid to die and scream mightily when their throats are slit,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA encourages everybody to take pleasure in vegan meals that save lives, together with—given the fats and ldl cholesterol in meat—our personal!”
Practically all the 121 million pigs killed for meals annually within the U.S. are confined to filthy enclosures so small that they will barely flip round. Employees chop off piglets’ tails, reduce their tooth with pliers, and castrate the males—all with out ache reduction. On the slaughterhouse, staff grasp pigs the wrong way up, generally whereas they’re nonetheless acutely aware, and bleed them to demise. By going vegan, every particular person can spare practically 200 animals yearly; cut back their danger of affected by most cancers, coronary heart illness, strokes, diabetes, and weight problems; and dramatically shrink their carbon footprint.
PETA’s billboard is situated at 5451 Arlington Expy., simply over Mathews Bridge from the fairgrounds.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—notes that many scrumptious pig-friendly choices, equivalent to Candy Earth’s Benevolent Bacon, Tofurky’s Ham Fashion Roast, and Gardein’s Plant-Based mostly Breakfast Saus’ge, can be found at present.
For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.