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November 22, 2022
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Lauren Kent 202-483-7382
Brooklyn, N.Y. – On Wednesday, vegan Sen. Jabari Brisport will be a part of PETA and Humane Lengthy Island, together with a festive “turkey” mascot, in gifting away tasty vegan roasts to encourage individuals to maintain sensible, inquisitive, and delicate birds off the desk and have fun a wholesome, humane, environmentally pleasant “ThanksVegan” as a substitute.
When: Wednesday, November 23, 12 midday
The place: Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St. (close to the intersection with Marcy Avenue), Brooklyn
“This giveaway is all about uplifting the neighborhood with scrumptious, wholesome meals that don’t require utilizing animals,” says Brisport. “The meat business is horrendously abusive to animals and exploitative of its staff. My pals at PETA and I are dedicated to creating vegan consuming accessible to all.”
“With Sen. Brisport’s assist, we’re joyful to share hearty vegan roasts that unfold consolation to native households and spare mild turkeys a terrifying dying,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA encourages everybody to depart animals off their plates this vacation and day-after-day.”
The giveaway follows the information that 12 former staff at Plainville Farms, a self-described “humane” turkey provider, have been just lately charged with greater than 140 counts of cruelty to animals following a PETA investigation—one of many many causes, together with considerations for their very own well being and the setting, why extra individuals than ever are in search of out animal-free fare for the vacation meal this yr.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.