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Because horses and camels used for tourist rides at the Giza pyramids are frequently beaten, bound, and left with bloody wounds—and the Egyptian government has reneged on its promise and failed to follow through as it said it would to ban the abusive rides—PETA has erected a new sky-high appeal just a stone’s throw from the Egyptian Consulate, urging tourists never to support this exploitative industry.

The action follows newly released footage from PETA Asia showing that camels used for rides and photo ops are hit in the face and on the testicles and left with bloody wounds at Egypt’s notorious Birqash Camel Market, including one camel who was tied to the back of a truck and dragged through the street. Another video shows a horse at Giza collapsing while pulling a carriage and being beaten until she manages to stand up again, while still other videos show horses with open sores and severe, untreated injuries forced to wait for the next paying customer in the blistering heat without shade or water and trying to subsist by eating trash.

“Exhausted horses and camels are beaten bloody every day beside the pyramids so that their handlers can wring a few more dollars out of tourists,” says PETA Asia Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA is calling on the Egyptian government to live up to its promise and switch to eco-friendly electric carts and urges everyone never to ride an animal at any tourist attraction.”

PETA Asia has shared multiple videos of animal abuse with Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The ministry previously pledged to ban the use of horses and other animals at tourist sites and replace them with electric carts but has failed to provide a definite date for implementing the ban.

PETA’s appeal is located at 6150 Wilshire Blvd., just up the road from the Egyptian Consulate, and will be in place through October 9.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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As part of its new “Eat Consciously” campaign, PETA is erecting sky-high appeals in the Heart of America and other traditionally meaty Midwestern cities where vegan eating is growing in popularity—and vegan options are becoming more abundant—urging viewers to consider a pig who suffered and died for a fleeting barbecue craving and go vegan.

Photo credit: Nick Gordon

“Pigs feel pain and fear, value their lives, and don’t deserve to have their bodies carved up for food any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges everyone to see animals as the sensitive individuals they are and go vegan.”

At slaughterhouses, workers shoot pigs in the head with a captive-bolt gun, hang them up by one leg, and cut their throat—often while they’re still conscious. Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year; reduces their own risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity; and dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help those looking to make the switch.

The billboards in Kansas City are located alongside Harry Darby Memorial Highway just north of Speaker Road, near Conagra Brands and Hillshire Brands (a subsidiary of Tyson), and I-70 just west of N. 110^th Street, a stone’s throw from the American Royal World Series of Barbecue. The other campaign locations are Akron and Canton, Ohio; Indianapolis; and Omaha, Nebraska.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is calling on two global authorities—the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), which coordinate international activities together—to enforce global standards for preventing and controlling zoonotic pathogens in primates and crack down on the international monkey experimentation–supply pipeline. This follows a damning exposé published by Spanish animal protection group Abolición Vivisección revealing that Camarney—Europe’s largest supplier of imported monkeys for experimentation, based in Spain—takes woefully inadequate measures to prevent the spread of diseases that are easily transmissible from monkeys to humans, including tuberculosis (TB).

PETA and Abolición Vivisección’s letter to the WOAH and the WHO, sent today, warns that enforcement of the WOAH Terrestrial Code—global standards designed to improve the safety of the international trade in animals—is urgently needed.

Abolición Vivisección’s exposé reveals that macaques’ health certificates appear to have been erased from Camarney’s database and that the facility fails to record animals’ causes of death or necropsy results. Inspectors were denied access to some areas because the site didn’t have monkeys’ current TB test results, and its reportedly poorly secured cages posed the risk that monkeys could become injured or escape.

Camarney is owned by Noveprim Ltd. (a Mauritian company), and Charles River Laboratories owns 49% of Noveprim’s shares. Charles River is currently under federal civil and criminal investigation for possible violations of laws governing the importation of monkeys into the U.S. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission also recently launched an investigation into Charles River’s procurement of monkeys from Asia.

A caged monkey at Camarney reaches for a palm frond. Photo credit: Abolición Vivisección

Most of the monkeys at Camarney are imported from Mauritius, where 200 monkeys were killed as a result of a TB outbreak in May. Monkeys imported from that country were recently found to be infected with TB in a Michigan laboratory where two people tested positive for TB and were then referred for treatment.

The experimentation industry ships wild-caught, endangered long-tailed macaques globally, despite WOAH Terrestrial Code Article 7.8.7, which states that endangered species should be used for experiments only in “exceptional circumstances,” “[a]nimals should be acquired legally,” and “[t]he use of wild caught nonhuman primates is strongly discouraged.”

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