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Statement From PETA: Pymatuning Deer Park Fire
Please see the following statement from PETA Foundation Deputy General Counsel for Captive Animal Law Enforcement Brittany Peet concerning Monday night’s deadly fire at Pymatuning Deer Park:
Just two months after PETA notified Pymatuning Deer Park of the group’s intent to sue the roadside zoo over its mistreatment of endangered animals, one of those animals is dead: Lola, a highly social lemur who lived and died in solitary confinement because this decrepit outfit wouldn’t let PETA arrange to transfer her to a reputable animal-care facility. If the roadside zoo learns anything from these deaths, it will let PETA find appropriate homes for the surviving animals before it’s too late for them, too.
Another animal Pymatuning has refused to allow PETA to find a new home for is Bosco, a bear who has been confined to an antiquated concrete pit for decades and is now showing signs of arthritis, a condition that also plagued the bear who was confined with him before her death. The roadside zoo received an official warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2016 for over a dozen violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, including for keeping bears in concrete pits—but it has refused to end this practice.
More information about PETA’s planned lawsuit against Pymatuning is available here.
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Norwalk Bakery Wins PETA’s ‘Sweet Treat’ Award
In time for Valentine’s Day, PETA has scoured the country for the Top Vegan Sweet Treats—and Norwalk’s own Izzi B’s Allergen-Free Bakery won a spot on the list for its sumptuous raspberry-filled doughnut dipped in chocolate.
Everything at Izzi B’s is 100% vegan and free of refined sugars as well as allergens such as nuts, wheat, and gluten. The bakery is filling orders via pickup and delivery and is open Tuesday through Saturday each week.
“This decadent doughnut makes it easy to show some love to hens and mother cows this Valentine’s Day,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “All the bakeries on PETA’s list promise fewer broken hearts by offering animal-friendly and cholesterol-free goodies.”
Vegan sweets are sweeter to animals: In the dairy industry, calves are torn away from their mothers shortly after birth, and in the egg industry, parts of chicks’ beaks are cut off with a hot blade when they’re just a few days old. Each person who goes vegan also reduces their risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer; dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint; and helps prevent future epidemics and pandemics—SARS, swine flu, bird flu, and COVID-19 all stemmed from confining and killing animals for food.
Other winners on PETA’s list include Dulce Vegan Bakery & Café in Atlanta, Quincy Bake Shop in Oklahoma City, and Sea Salt & Cinnamon in Muncie, Indiana. Each eatery will receive a framed certificate from PETA, which offers free vegan Valentine’s Day dessert recipes on its website along with a selection of sweet gifts from the PETA Shop.
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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Oklahoma City Bakery Wins PETA’s ‘Sweet Treat’ Award
In time for Valentine’s Day, PETA has scoured the country for the Top Vegan Sweet Treats—and local bakery Quincy Bake Shop won a spot on the list for its mini-but-decadent chocolate-glazed Bundt cake.
The rich coffee- and chocolate-flavored cake comes topped with a dark chocolate glaze, and it’s perfect for one or two people. Quincy Bake Shop also offers a daily gluten-free and vegan scone made with seasonal fruit and topped with a lemon glaze. The dessert shop, located inside the Bradford House hotel, is open daily.
“This award-winning Bundt cake makes it so easy to show some love to hens and mother cows this Valentine’s Day,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “All the bakeries on PETA’s list promise fewer broken hearts by offering these animal-friendly and cholesterol-free goodies.”
Vegan sweets are sweeter to animals: In the dairy industry, calves are torn away from their mothers shortly after birth, and in the egg industry, parts of chicks’ beaks are cut off with a hot blade when they’re just a few days old. Each person who goes vegan also reduces their risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer; dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint; and helps prevent future outbreaks of disease—SARS, swine flu, bird flu, and COVID-19 all stemmed from confining and killing animals for food.
Other winners on PETA’s list include Dulce Vegan Bakery & Cafe in Atlanta; The Littlest Bake Shop in Kansas City, Missouri; and Sea Salt & Cinnamon in Muncie, Indiana. Each eatery will receive a framed certificate from PETA, which offers free vegan Valentine’s Day dessert recipes on its website along with a selection of sweet gifts from the PETA Shop.
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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Despite Orca Deaths, These Artists Plan to Perform at SeaWorld—Take Action!
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