Kategorie: Animals

Following Kevin Bacon’s admission in People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue that he can’t eat bacon anymore after getting to know pigs on his farm in Connecticut, PETA sent a letter to the actor—who has worked as a spokesperson for the American Egg Board and celebrated his birthday this year by eating a roasted chicken—encouraging him to adopt a chicken so that he can shift his mindset around them, too. We’re confident that once Bacon learns that hens are clever thinkers and wonderful mothers who cluck back and forth with their unhatched chicks, he’ll cut their flesh and eggs from his meals.

While sitting on her eggs, a mother hen clucks softly to her unhatched babies, and they chirp back to her and to each other from inside their shells. But none of this occurs when these sweet birds are caged and used as egg-laying machines. They’re confined to small wire cages, forced to lay eggs until their broken bodies tire, and then slaughtered.

Chickens are arguably the most abused animals on the planet. In the United States, approximately 9 billion chickens are killed for their flesh each year and 305 million hens are used for their eggs.

PETA is urging Bacon to not be chicken, throw the eggs out with the bacon, and adopt chickens instead of eating them.

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Today, PETA is urging the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to immediately pull its taxpayer-funded grant for a barbaric sleep deprivation experiment on tiny marmoset monkeys scheduled to take place at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The study was proposed by University of Massachusetts–Amherst experimenter Agnès Lacreuse and would blast the marmosets with sounds as loud as those of a lawn mower for six minutes every 15 minutes for three nights a week for an unknown number of weeks, supposedly to learn something about human Alzheimer’s disease. PETA also filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture today.

Lacreuse originally proposed and secured funding from the NIA, part of the National Institutes of Health, for the experiment in 2021. It was supposed to take place at UMass, but for reasons that haven’t been made public, Lacreuse changed the location to the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC), which is run by UW-Madison. But recent public meetings of the university’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee revealed that the facility is unprepared and ill-equipped to conduct it.

This lack of competency, along with two major misrepresentations in Lacreuse’s grant application, prompted PETA to demand that the funds be cut and the study canceled. Her proposal to NIA included the following:

• Lacreuse claimed that non-animal methods were impossible and that no human data were available about the role that sleep disturbance plays in Alzheimer’s disease. But multiple NIH-funded studies using human volunteers have already investigated this connection, suggesting that she may have deliberately overstated the importance of the experiment to secure funding.
• Lacreuse designated UMass as the proposed location of the study, took taxpayers’ money on that basis, and then switched the site to UW-Madison, which for two years hasn’t been able to resolve its issues.

A marmoset is handled by a gloved experimenter. Photo: PETA

“If anyone needs to wake up, it’s Agnès Lacreuse and anyone else who thinks that this boondoggle is going contribute to anything but monkey misery,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe. “PETA is calling on the NIA to shut down Lacreuse’s ridiculous monkey torment pipe dream.”

Additional information about the WNPRC’s lengthy history of neglecting animals is available here and PETA’s blog about the cruel sleep fragmentation experiments.

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, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

Ahead of Thanksgiving, PETA has placed a thought-provoking appeal near a Harris Teeter grocery store reminding everyone that vulnerable turkeys don’t want to be slaughtered for a fleeting taste of their flesh and encouraging diners to give birds a break by enjoying a delicious “ThanksVegan” feast instead.

“Turkeys are individuals who feel pain and fear, value their lives, and don’t consent to being confined, killed, and eaten,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is urging everyone to show a little mercy, keep turkeys off the table, and tuck into savory and satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

Turkeys are intelligent and social animals who, in nature, spend their days caring for their young, building nests, and foraging for food. Each year in the U.S., about 46 million turkeys—typically between 14 and 18 weeks old—are killed and sold for Thanksgiving alone. During their short lives, they’re forced to stand in their own waste and are bred to grow so large so quickly that their legs give out. At the slaughterhouse, workers hang the young birds upside down, drag them through an electrified bath, slit their throats, and dump them into scalding-hot defeathering tanks—often while they’re still conscious.

A PETA investigation into Plainville Farms—a self-professed “humane” turkey supplier—revealed employees violently abusing turkeys, including a worker pretending to masturbate with a dying bird and another sitting on and pretending to rape a live turkey.

PETA’s “ThanksVegan” guide is packed with recipes, cooking tips, and everything else needed to enjoy a delicious, turkey-friendly holiday. In addition to sparing the lives of nearly 200 animals a year, everyone who goes vegan shrinks their carbon footprint and reduces their risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other ailments.

PETA’s message is located at 1091 Concord Pkwy. N., Concord. It will also appear in Fort Wayne and South Bend, Indiana.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and offers a free vegan starter kit on its website. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

In an unmissable “ThanksVegan” tableau, a naked, “trussed up” PETA supporter will lie next to a “turkey carcass” on a table at a busy intersection downtown on Tuesday to remind passersby that we’re the same in all the ways that matter and encourage everyone to give turkeys a break by opting for a delicious and humane vegan meal this holiday season and beyond.

When:    Tuesday, November 14, 12 noon

Where:    At the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and Nichols Road, Kansas City

Photo: © Robert Khafizov | Dreamstime.com

“Turkeys are individuals who feel pain and fear, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be slaughtered for supper any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s display should give people the shock of realization that they need to opt for a delicious and peaceful ‘ThanksVegan’ feast.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a “ThanksVegan” holiday guide.

For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.