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On the heels of Gov. Kay Ivey’s turkey “pardon” yesterday, PETA is encouraging everyone to follow suit in a can’t-be-missed message that just went up near turkey-serving restaurants on Atlanta Highway.

Part of PETA’s nationwide campaign urging people to celebrate “ThanksVegan” by leaving turkeys in peace, the billboard follows the news that 12 former workers at Plainville Farms, a self-described “humane” turkey supplier, were recently charged with more than 140 counts of cruelty to animals after a PETA undercover investigation, making cruelty to animals one of the many reasons, along with health and the environment, why people are going for tasty, animal-free fare this year.

“Pardons should be for everyone who once ate but has decided to stop eating these gentle individuals, who feel pain and fear and deserve to enjoy their turkey lives,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA is encouraging everyone to take personal responsibility to ‘pardon a Tom,’ and we have free recipes to help folks get started.”

Turkeys raised for food are normally slaughtered when they’re between 14 and 18 weeks old, and more than 45 million turkeys are killed each year for Thanksgiving alone. Workers hang the young birds upside down, drag them through an electrified bath, slit their throats, and dump them into scalding-hot water in defeathering tanks—often while they’re still conscious. In addition to preventing nearly 200 animals a year from enduring daily suffering and a terrifying death, everyone who goes vegan shrinks their carbon footprint and slashes their risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other ailments.

PETA’s ThanksVegan guide is packed with recipes, cooking tips, lists of the best hearty meat-free roasts, and everything else needed to enjoy a delicious turkey-friendly holiday.

PETA’s billboard is located at 6050 Atlanta Hwy., just down the road from Jim ’N Nick’s, Wishbone Cafe, Martha’s Place Buffet and Catering, and a slew of other turkey-selling restaurants and grocery stores.

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

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On Monday, as animal experimenters meet at the Society for Neuroscience’s (SFN) annual conference, a PETA mobile billboard will be outside the event showing video footage from inside laboratories that use monkeys. The video display will circle the San Diego Convention Center, located at 111 W. Harbor Dr., between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Among the experimenters who are members of SFN and expected to be at the conference are Margaret Livingstone, who takes newborn monkeys from their mothers and has sewn their eyelids shut; Shreesh Mysore, who cuts into owls’ skulls, inserts electrodes into their brains, and forces them to stare at computer screens while he blasts loud sounds into their ears; Elisabeth Murray, who brain-damages monkeys and then frightens them with fake spiders and snakes; and Elizabeth Buffalo, who straps thirsty monkeys into restraint chairs for hours at a time and forces them to perform memory tasks in exchange for a sip of juice.

“These experimenters make their living by tormenting animals,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “They won’t show video of the atrocities they commit to the public—so PETA will.”

Some of the video footage (here, here and here) that will be screened was taken inside Murray’s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health and shows a monkey named Beamish used in the fright experiments. PETA will also show disturbing footage from the Washington National Primate Research Center, where monkeys are imprisoned inside barren, kitchen cabinet–size cages and exhibit the devastating effects of long-term confinement and social isolation.

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

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More people than ever are expected to celebrate a meat-free Thanksgiving this year, and Grass Fed—Rochester’s neighborhood vegan butcher shop and deli—has won a national Vegan Roast Boast Award from PETA for its Holiday Roast with mushroom, fennel, and leek stuffing—a succulent solution to 2022’s soaring turkey prices and rampant bird flu outbreaks.

Owned and operated by foodie husband-and-wife duo Rob Nipe (“The Butcher”) and Nora Rubel (“The Butcher’s Wife”), Grass Fed was borne of Nipe’s desire to create the perfect vegan sausage breakfast sandwich. It has since expanded and now offers everything from chicken cutlets to brisket and bacon, all 100% animal-free.

“Juicy and packed with delicious veggie stuffing, the holiday roast at Grass Fed is the perfect centerpiece on a compassionate holiday table,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “This ‘ThanksVegan,’ PETA is celebrating local businesses that make it easy as dairy-free pumpkin pie to enjoy a bird-friendly feast.”

Not only are vegan roasts free of saturated animal fat and cholesterol, they also spare animals immense suffering: More than 45 million turkeys will be killed for this Thanksgiving alone. During their short lives, they’re forced to stand in their own waste and inhale ammonia-laden air inside dark warehouses. The birds are even genetically manipulated to make them grow unnaturally large, which cause their legs to break beneath them.

The other nine honorees include Green New American Vegetarian in Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona; The Herbivorous Butcher in Minneapolis; Monk’s Meats in Brooklyn, New York; and Planted Table in Oakland, California. Each eatery will receive a framed certificate from PETA, which offers a “ThanksVegan” guide.

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

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Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Welfare Debbie Metzler in response to reports that Universal Studios Hollywood will permanently close its “Animal Actors” show—which has used animals provided by notorious supplier Birds & Animals Unlimited (BAU) for years—in January to make way for a future attraction:

The curtain can’t close soon enough on this cruel relic, which has spent decades forcing animals from a wretched supplier to perform tricks in front of frightening, noisy crowds. PETA is celebrating Universal Studios’ kind decision and calling on the company to begin a new animal-free era at both of its parks.

PETA’s 10-month-long investigation into BAU revealed that animals were being denied adequate veterinary care for illnesses and injuries, forced to live inside filthy enclosures, and denied food so that they would be hungry while being trained to do tricks. Following PETA’s exposé, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited BAU for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.

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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