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On Wednesday, ahead of a scheduled race-week appearance of the Budweiser Clydesdales at Payless Liquors, a herd of PETA supporters wearing giant realistic horse masks will converge outside the store bearing signs that proclaim, “Budweiser Has Blood on Its Cans!”—urging the King of Tears to end its painful and unnecessary amputations of Clydesdales’ tailbones.

When:    Wednesday, May 24, 3:30 p.m.

Where:    Outside Payless Liquors, 4711 W. 30^th St., at the intersection of W. 30^th Street and Georgetown Road, Indianapolis

As PETA revealed in a recent video exposé, Budweiser has been secretly severing Clydesdales’ tailbones or painfully cutting off the blood supply to the tailbone with a tight band, eventually causing it to die and fall off—just so the horses will look a certain way when hitched to a beer wagon. Cosmetic tailbone amputation is condemned by the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Association of Equine Practitioners and is illegal in 10 states and several countries, including Belgium, where Budweiser’s parent company, InBev, is based.

“Horses need their tails for balance and to protect themselves against biting and disease-spreading insects,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Until the company stops disfiguring Clydesdales, PETA is calling on everyone to wave the red flag on drinking Budweiser.”

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

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Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo regarding records showing that the Bob Baffert–trained Thoroughbred Havnameltdown, who sustained a fatal injury at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, had received medication for soreness in his legs in April:

Bob Baffert should get an Academy Award rather than the Preakness trophy. He acted on Saturday as though he had no idea how Havnameltdown could have shattered a bone at Pimlico. He stated, “We never had an issue with him,” and further suggested that the bump to the horse out of the gate may have contributed to the injury. But California records show that in April, Havnameltdown was administered a powerful corticosteroid injection in his leg joints, an indicator of extreme soreness. The horse is now dead—and Baffert’s career should be, too. The racing industry tolerates him at its own peril.

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 or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Ahead of Succession’s final episode on May 28, star James Cromwell is taking over the Boardwalk with a message for Starbucks: Stop milking customers who choose vegan milks. The actor’s appeal appears on nearly 100 screens along the busiest stretch of the iconic walkway and within sight of two Starbucks locations.

“My friends at PETA and I are calling on Starbucks to stop punishing kind and environmentally conscious customers for choosing plant milks,” says Cromwell. “We all have a stake in the life-and-death matter of the climate catastrophe, and Starbucks should do its part by ending its vegan upcharge.”

In the dairy industry, calves are taken away from their beloved mothers so that the milk meant for the calves can be sold to humans. Once the cows’ bodies wear out after repeated pregnancies, they’re sent to slaughter. The industry is also a major contributor to the climate catastrophe: In the U.S., cow emissions are the primary source of the greenhouse gas methane, which is 80 times more potent in warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Starbucks has admitted that vegan milks are better for the planet than dairy milk, yet it continues to charge up to 90 cents more for them. Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Blue Bottle Coffee, Caribou Coffee, Philz Coffee, Panera Bread, Pret A Manger, and Noah’s New York Bagels already offer vegan milks at no extra charge.

The Boardwalk messaging blitz is the latest action in an ongoing campaign by Cromwell and PETA to pressure Starbucks to end its upcharge for vegan milks, which last year saw the star superglue himself to a Starbucks counter in New York. Atlantic City and New York are both filming locations for Succession.

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

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