Kategorie: Animals

The gloves are off after Oscar Mayer’s announcement that it will pay drivers $35,600 to haul its cruelty- and cholesterol-pushing hot dog truck across the country, as PETA counters with an offer of $35,601 for representatives interested in promoting a humane and healthy diet by driving a vegan food truck. The group is offering drivers a chance to drive “Hell on Wheels,” PETA’s guerilla-marketing campaign featuring a life-size chicken transport truck covered with images of real chickens crammed into crates on their way to a slaughterhouse, complete with actual recorded sounds of the birds’ cries, or its new vegan food truck due to launch in March.

 “Hell on Wheels,” PETA’s truck featuring real images and sounds of chickens being hauled to slaughter. Credit: PETA

“When you realize that hot dogs are cancer-causing tubes of tormented pigs’ body parts, an Oscar Mayer wiener is the last thing you’d want to be,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Drivers who want to sleep at night can apply to PETA and save lives instead of helping meat companies put a cutesy spin on ‘death dogs.’”

In the meat industry, workers chop off pigs’ tails, clip their teeth with pliers, and castrate the males—all without pain relief—and cram cows into cramped, filthy feedlots with no protection from the elements. At the slaughterhouse, workers shoot animals in the head with a captive-bolt gun, hang them up by one leg, and cut their throats—often while they’re still conscious. Everyone who goes vegan saves the lives of nearly 200 animals a year; reduces their risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and cancer; and dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint. PETA offers a free vegan starter kit for those ready to make the switch.

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 X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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Where Does the Fur for Bearskin Caps Come From? PETA’s Investigation Reveals

Lured With Cookies, Skinned for Bearskin Caps: PETA Exposes the Royal Guard’s Shame

PETA Investigation: How Are Cookies and Crossbows Used to Kill Bears in Canada?

Will PETA’s Bearskin Investigation Prompt a Changing of the Guard in the U.K.?

PETA Reveals How Canadian Hunters Use Cookies as a Tool When Killing Bears

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Bearskin Trade Exposed: Killed With a Crossbow and Sent Across the Pond

How Bears Are Killed for King’s Guard Caps Will Leave a Bitter Taste in Your Mouth

The Royal Guard’s Bearskin Caps’ Killer Origins Will Make Your Skin Crawl

What Hunters Do to Kill Bears in Canada Will Get Under Your Skin

Will PETA’s Breaking Investigation Make the King’s Guard Go Fake for Bears’ Sake?

PETA Exposes How Canada’s Sugar-Coated Scheme Is Connected to Royal Guard’s Caps

 

Stephen Fry narrates a new PETA investigative video revealing the connection between a Canadian blood sport and the King’s Guard’s bearskin caps. Take a look.

 

It would be no skin off the royal guard’s back to switch to faux-fur caps, and PETA’s new investigative video, narrated by Stephen Fry, reveals how disturbing the origins of the guard’s headgear are.

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Teachers know better than anyone how difficult it can be to capture and hold students’ attention, but TeachKind has something that can do just that. PETA has teamed up with executive producer Bill Maher to create The Failed Experiment—a shocking six-episode docuseries that takes a deep dive into the vivisection (animal experimentation) industry. This is a topic of great concern among students—TeachKind receives loads of inquiries each year from young people doing research on it—so we know they’ll be interested in viewing the series. Teachers will find it not only authoritative and eye-opening about the experimentation industry but also useful for lessons on persuasive writing and research and for encouraging responsive learning and interdisciplinary thinking. And since each episode is just six minutes long, the information is easily digestible and the entire docuseries can be watched in one sitting.

 

Vivisection is a highly profit-driven industry, which makes it difficult to find objectively factual information that hasn’t been compromised in order to make money, but teachers can trust this series to deliver only the transparent truth.

Animal experimentation has become increasingly unpopular as incontrovertible evidence of animal abuse and medical inefficacy continue to surface while more and more non-animal, human-relevant methods become available. Even the National Institutes of Health—the world’s leading investor in animal experimentation—admits that 95% of all new drugs successfully tested on animals fail in human trials. This compelling docuseries covers these topics and more and can be shown in the classroom or recommended to students doing research or persuasive writing projects on animal testing. It would pair well with TeachKind’s animal experimentation debate resource kit, and students can even request to speak to a PETA scientist in a live Q&A for answers to all their burning questions.

 

Available on Prime Video.

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Sec. 5-34. Improper care of animals prohibited.

(c) It shall be unlawful to tether an animal unless the animal is tethered under the direct supervision of a responsible and competent person. The conditions for tethering are:

• The responsible and competent person is outside with the animal.

(2) The tether is connected to the animal by a properly fitted buckle type collar or a body harness made of nylon, leather, or similar material.

(3) Choke-type, pinch-type, prong-type or improperly fitted collars are prohibited.

(4) The tether at least five (5) times the length of the animal’s body as measured from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail or a minimum of ten (10) feet, whichever is longer.

(5) The tether is made of a chew resistant, durable material designed specifically for the use of tethering of the specific animal and does not weigh more than one-eighth (⅛) of the animal’s weight.

(6) The animal is tethered in such a manner to prevent injury, strangulation or entanglement.

(7) If a pulley line or trolley system is used to tether an animal, the pulley, running lines, or trolley systems must terminate on at least one end with a swivel and be at least fifteen (15) feet in length and at least four (4) feet but not more than seven (7) feet above ground level.

(8) The animal is at least six (6) months of age.

(9) The animal is not sick, injured, in heat, pregnant, or nursing.

(10) The animal has access to shade and fresh, clean, potable water; a doghouse does not constitute shade.

(11) The animal is tethered in a manner that prevents it from reaching within two (2) feet of the property of another person, a public walkway or a road.

(12) If there are multiple animals, each are tethered separately with a minimum distance of at least six (6) feet from each other.

(13) Adequate space for exercise.

(d) Subsection 5-34(c) shall be effective as of July 01, 2023. Any person who violates subsection 5-34 (c) shall be given thirty (30) days to come into compliance. A second violation will result in a thirty-day compliance period. If violations of subsection 5-34(c) continue after the compliance period ends, a fine shall be imposed for each day the violation continues.

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