Kategorie: Animals

The post Hemp Family Super Foods appeared first on PETA.

The post TK-Share-The-World-Week-Image-Only-Oct-2022 appeared first on PETA.

Armed with signs reading, “Wegmans Still Selling ‘Humane’ Cruelty,” PETA supporters and members of Animal Rights Rochester will raise a ruckus outside the supermarket to urge Wegmans to reconsider its ties to Plainville Farms, where a PETA exposé revealed workers kicking, choking, and stomping on birds and beating them with a heavy metal rod, despite Plainville’s “humane” label. The action follows last week’s news that the Pennsylvania State Police charged 11 former workers with 139 counts of cruelty to animals, including six felonies, across six counties—the largest number of charges in any factory-farmed animal case in U.S. history.

When:    Monday, October 17, 12 noon

Where:    Wegmans, 1750 East Ave., Rochester

“There’s no excuse for Wegmans to continue to allow customers to be duped by ‘humane’ claims on turkey packages after Plainville workers racked up felony charges for tormenting birds who were unable to walk,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Wegmans to reevaluate its support of this abusive company and reminds everyone that the only humane meal is a vegan one.”

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.

The post Wegmans to Face PETA Rally After Felony Charges Filed Against Turkey Supplier’s Ex-Workers appeared first on PETA.

On the heels of exposing apparent violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) by two airlines that transported monkeys for two monkey-breeding companies, PETA is now urging the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) to investigate all four companies for apparent violations of the Lacey Act, a federal law designed to stop illegal trafficking of wildlife.

In a letter sent today to Edward Grace, assistant director of the FWS Office of Law Enforcement, PETA notes that the Lacey Act targets the macaque trade and prohibits trading wildlife who have been illegally possessed, transported, or sold. Hainan Airlines and Maleth Aero have reportedly shipped long-tailed macaques without a registration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is an apparent violation of the AWA, which in turn constitutes an apparent violation of the Lacey Act. Long-tailed macaques have just been listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, in large part due to being trapped and exploited as part of the international wildlife trade that supports U.S. laboratories.

PETA has also asked FWS to investigate the facilities that purchased and received the monkeys, one of which is owned by Envigo, whose notorious beagle-breeding facility is being shut down. The other is owned by Envigo’s parent company, Inotiv.

“These astoundingly complex, intelligent primates are being stuffed into cargo holds, apparently illegally, just to fill the failing laboratories of greedy experimenters,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is calling on FWS to crack down on this multimillion-dollar industry before it sticks another price tag on an endangered monkey.”

In laboratories, long-tailed macaques and other monkeys are mutilated, poisoned, deprived of food and water, forcibly immobilized in restraint devices, infected with painful and deadly diseases, psychologically tormented, and killed. Monkeys victimized in the wildlife trade and destined for U.S. laboratories can carry simian hemorrhagic fever virus, Ebola-Reston virus, tuberculosis, malaria, herpes B, deadly diarrheal pathogens, and other pathogens and diseases that can spread to humans.

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

The post FWS Pushed to Investigate Companies Behind Illegal Monkey Imports appeared first on PETA.

In the past week, 11 former workers at Plainville Farms, a turkey supplier previously certified “humane” by the Global Animal Partnership (G.A.P.), have been charged with 139 counts of cruelty to animals, including six felonies—the largest number in any factory-farmed animal case in U.S. history. PETA fired off a letter today to G.A.P. Executive Director Anne Malleau, pushing her to end the misleading certification program since its “standards” did nothing to prevent the abuse.

G.A.P. suspended Plainville’s “humane” certification only after PETA’s investigation, which led Pennsylvania State Police to file the charges. The group’s investigative evidence shows the workers “kicking, stomping on, beating, throwing, and cruelly killing turkeys on a nightly basis.” Workers even mimicked masturbation and rape with injured and dying birds. Although G.A.P. and its partners claim that their standards prevent abuse, PETA has found abuse—and violations of G.A.P.’s own standards—at all 11 G.A.P.–certified turkey and pig farms that it has investigated.

“Video footage of workers beating turkeys at Plainville suppliers was too horrific for police to ignore, and G.A.P.’s faulty certification system didn’t do a thing to prevent it,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on G.A.P. to stop duping shoppers into believing a ‘humane’ lie—and everyone else to take personal responsibility by eating vegan.”

PETA’s investigation also prompted Whole Foods to pull Plainville’s turkey products from the shelves. Plainville terminated the workers and pledged to start monitoring operations using body cameras—a meaningless move, PETA notes, unless the footage is livestreamed so the public can review it and call out any additional acts of cruelty.

PETA has also submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission alleging that Plainville is engaging in false advertising by making claims on its packaging that turkeys on its suppliers’ farms are raised in a “stress-free environment.”

Broadcast-quality video footage from PETA’s investigation is available here.

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

The post Global Animal Partnership Under Fire After Cruelty Charges Filed Against ‘Humane’ Turkey Supplier’s Ex-Workers appeared first on PETA.