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In honor of the pig who remained standing, bleeding, and crying out for nearly 20 minutes as she was shot eight times in the head at Alex Froehlich Packing Company, PETA plans to place a billboard near the slaughterhouse pointing out who’s responsible for her agonizing and prolonged death: everyone who hasn’t yet gone vegan.

“This crying pig endured blast after blast to her head, all so she could end up on someone’s plate,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s billboard will empower people to go vegan and combat slaughterhouse cruelty with mealtime kindness.”

According to federal documents, a worker shot the pig four times and the slaughterhouse’s owner shot her another time before she fell down. They rolled her out of the stun box that she’d been in, but she got back up and kept crying out, so they forced her back in and shot her four more times, finally rendering her unconscious.

PETA notes that botched slaughterhouse killings are frequent occurrences, including in Cambria County, where nearby Pudliner Packing has been cited for multiple egregious humane handling violations, which authorities have failed to prosecute—prompting PETA to appeal directly to consumers. Pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, and other animals feel pain and fear and value their lives, just as humans do, and the best way to help prevent them from being mutilated, shot, cut open, and bled to death in slaughterhouses is not to eat them.

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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A K-9 officer died after being left in a hot car in Cocoa recently, and this week’s high temperatures will put dogs at high risk of heat prostration and death, so PETA is issuing an urgent warning to anyone with a dog. Please be sure to do the following:

• Touch the pavement to ensure that it won’t burn dogs’ foot pads.
• Be alert to a long, curled-up tongue and heavy panting, as dogs cannot sweat as humans can and heat builds up inside their bodies.
• Walk only in the shade or on earth or grass, and never leave animals outdoors in extreme heat or inside vehicles.

This month, PETA fieldworkers discovered the body of a dog who had died after being left chained up in the hot sun, and similar reports nationwide are starting to roll in. Recently, a law-enforcement officer mistakenly left his patrol car with a dog inside it, and the K-9 succumbed to heat prostration and died. Last year, more than 31 dogs were reported dead from heat-related causes. (Figures are far likely higher, as most heat-related deaths go unreported.)

Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty.

For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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After a persistent campaign by PETA, our international affiliates, and activists around the world, Canada Goose—the last major holdout company still selling fur—concedes and agrees to end its use of the cruelly obtained material.

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Because the National Park Service (NPS) is allowing cattle ranching interests to sentence tule elk on Point Reyes National Seashore to death, PETA supporters—including Miyoko Schinner, CEO of Sonoma County–based vegan cheese giant Miyoko’s Creamery—will greet motorists heading to the seashore on Sunday with signs proclaiming, “Save the Tule Elk!”

When:    Sunday, June 27, 12 noon sharp

Where:    At the intersection of Fourth and A streets, Point Reyes Station

“The National Park Service is kowtowing to cattle ranching interests at the expense of the wildlife who call Point Reyes home,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA invites anyone appalled by this plan to join us in calling on officials to protect tule elk, not watch them die.”

Tens of thousands of people have demanded that the Department of the Interior halt the NPS plan, which would allow cattle ranchers to keep over 5,500 cows on fenced-off portions of the seashore for 20 more years, even though animal agriculture wastes water and is one of the main causes of the climate crisis. Hundreds of elk at Point Reyes died in 2020 because an 8-foot-tall fence confines a herd to a peninsula, preventing them from reaching sustenance elsewhere. Only two other herds of tule elk remain at Point Reyes, and the NPS plan would allow for some of them to be killed as well.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—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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In time for the Fourth of July, PETA has scoured the country for the Top 10 Vegan Dogs—and local restaurant Unburger Grill has won a spot on the list for its Hot & Spicy Sausage, a flavorful veggie link piled high with grilled jalapeños and dressed with pico de gallo, Sriracha, and creamy dairy-free ranch.

“Unburger’s Hot & Spicy Sausage brings the heat without the meat—and it’s as delicious as it is kind to animals,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “All of PETA’s award wieners make it easy to declare our independence from meat this Fourth of July.”

According to the World Health Organization, processed meats, including hot dogs, cause cancer. Each person who goes vegan reduces their risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, and diabetes; dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint; and helps prevent future epidemics and pandemics. Swine flu, bird flu, and COVID-19 all stemmed from confining and killing animals for food.

As for animals in the meat industry, workers chop pigs’ tails off, cut off their teeth with pliers, and castrate the males—all without any pain relief—and confine cows to cramped, filthy feedlots without protection from the elements. At the slaughterhouse, workers hang the animals upside down, often while they’re still conscious, and bleed them to death.

Other winners on PETA’s list include the Nacho Hot Dog at The Vegetable Hunter in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; the Califas Dawg at Cali Dawg in San Jose, California; the Elote Dog at Cycle Dogs in Seattle; and the Buffalo Crunchy Dog at Sealevel City Vegan Diner in Wilmington, North Carolina. Each eatery will receive a framed certificate from PETA, which also offers a list of the the best ready-to-heat vegan hot dogs available at grocery stores on its website.

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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