Kategorie: Animals

On Wednesday, PETA supporters dressed as giant inflatable babies will hand out free Babybel Plant-Based cheese snacks at Inner Harbor near a newly erected sky-high appeal asking why anyone would accept the separation of cows from their calves on dairy farms but be rightly outraged when the same thing is done to whales and their calves. The two mammals are the same in all the ways that matter: Both nurse their young, bond tightly with their calves, interact in socially complex ways, and mourn when they’re separated from those they love.

When:    Wednesday, October 11, 12 noon

Where:    Inner Harbor, 201 E. Pratt St., Baltimore

“Land whales” need saving because instead of being allowed to explore, play, and be with their families, calves in the dairy industry are torn away from their grieving mothers so that the milk meant to nourish them can be stolen and sold at supermarkets. It’s standard industry practice to forcibly inseminate cows—workers insert an arm into the animals’ rectum and a metal rod to deliver semen into their vagina. And although people rarely think about it, there’s no retirement home for cows: After only a few years, their bodies wear out and they’re sent to slaughter.

“A cow produces milk for her calf, just as a whale does for her calf and a human does for her baby—not your mom, not your milk,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA reminds everyone how devastated cows are when their calves are forcibly taken from them and how easy it is to choose vegan cheese.”

Not only is the dairy industry cruel, it’s also a major contributor to the climate catastrophe. In the U.S., emissions from cows are the primary source of the greenhouse gas methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the atmosphere.

The billboard—located at 156 N. Gay St., just a block away from The Baltimore Farmers’ Market and near a number of eateries—is the latest in an East Coast ad blitz that has landed in cities including Atlanta; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Boston; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and New Bedford, Massachusetts.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way”—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.

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Please see the following statement from PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel regarding the citations, including one critical repeat violation, posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against the Tulane National Primate Research Center for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations:

Staff at the Tulane National Primate Research Center continue to make a water-tight case for shutting down this wretched facility, which flushes taxpayer money down the toilet every day and endangers the monkeys it imprisons with unchecked incompetence.

U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors found dead rats on the ground and in the ceilings along with rat poison in outdoor primate enclosures, according to a just-posted report. The outside enclosures are littered with broken plastic barrels, fence posts, and broken panels in the overgrown weeds just outside the breeding facility, where Canada geese have nested—and staff have failed to clean up their waste. According to the report, four monkeys in just the past three months have gotten stuck in the webbing of the enclosures, one requiring surgery.

Tulane is among the seven national primate research centers that want $30 million more in taxpayer funding in a bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate, but they clearly don’t deserve a single penny of the money they already get. Resources should be directed toward modern, non-animal research methods, and we urge officials to adopt PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—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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After PETA files numerous complaints with various federal and state authorities detailing egregious animal welfare issues and numerous injuries to customers at SeaQuest Trumbull in Connecticut, the notorious shopping mall petting zoo closes.

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Following months of behind-the-scenes talks with PETA, The Mirage in Las Vegas announces that the big cats who were formerly owned by Siegfried & Roy have been moved from the hotel’s Secret Garden to two sanctuaries verified by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

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Troy Hyde, who operated the roadside zoo Animals of Montana and had long exploited animals for movies and photo shoots, has his state exhibitor’s license permanently revoked after inspectors find 22 separate violations of Montana’s captive-animal welfare regulations. PETA had updated the U.S. Department of Agriculture, calling for it to begin proceedings to terminate Hyde’s license, and just a month later, the agency did just that.

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