Kategorie: Animals

As the fishing industry seeks to promote October as National Seafood Month, PETA supporters will hand out free Loving Hut vegan fish fillets just down the road from a new message that’s making waves by compelling commuters to consider the leviathan-sized hidden costs of their fish dinners. The image points out that fish aren’t the only victims of the fishing industry, as millions of other animals, including whales, turtles, seals, and dolphins—euphemistically known as “bycatch”—also die on its hooks, in its nets, and in its abandoned and discarded gear every year.

When:    Wednesday, October 4, 4:30 p.m.

Where:    Outside Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church, 3501 W. San Jose St., Tampa

“Dolphins, turtles, sea birds, sharks, whales, and other animals are simply viewed as collateral damage to fishing trawlers and even anglers,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges conscientious consumers who care about animals to leave fish off their plates, for everyone’s sake.”

PETA notes that the fishing industry’s unintentional kills are one of the biggest threats to marine biodiversity worldwide and have resulted in widespread species extinction, habitat destruction, and irreversible damage to ocean ecosystems. The fishing industry is also terribly cruel to its intended victims: More fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined. Fish feel pain as acutely as mammals do, have long-term memories, and sing underwater—yet they’re impaled, crushed, suffocated, dropped into pots of boiling water, or cut open and gutted, all while conscious.

PETA’s message appears on bus shelters in Tampa on S. Dale Mabry Highway (U.S. 92) near Inman Avenue and on W. Kennedy Boulevard at Church Avenue and in Brandon on Causeway Boulevard at Marsh Harbor Way and on Providence Road near Windingwood Avenue. Each location is just a stone’s throw from a Bonefish Grill restaurant, whose headquarters is in Tampa.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a free vegan starter kit to help people get hooked on vegan food. 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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PETA supporters will unfurl a “Cruelty Doesn’t Fly” banner in front of EGYPTAIR at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport tomorrow following reports that the airline is shipping hundreds of endangered long-tailed macaques destined for laboratory experimentation despite the company’s previous ban on the practice and concerns about the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and other diseases.

When:    September 30 at 4:30 p.m.

Where:    EGYPTAIR Departures, JFK International Airport (Terminal 1), Queens

The animals are reportedly being shipped from Mauritius, an island nation more than 9,000 miles away, despite a current TB outbreak among monkeys there. PETA recently uncovered documents showing that monkeys of Mauritian origin wound up in a Michigan laboratory, where they tested positive for TB, prompting a state investigation.

“EGYPTAIR is putting these monkeys through hell and risking public health,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “The airline needs to wash its hands of this dirty business immediately.”­

Monkeys in Mauritius are often abducted from forests or bred on squalid farms. Those who survive illness and injury are packed into small crates and locked inside EGYPTAIR’s dark cargo holds on the first part of their days-long journey before they’re trucked to laboratories where they’ll be poisoned, mutilated, and killed.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

For more information about 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.

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To memorialize the dozens of pigs struck by cars and killed along the Mississippi River Bridge last Tuesday after the animals fell from an open gate on the back of a transport truck, PETA plans to place a sky-high message near the site of their deaths proclaiming, “See the Individual. Go Vegan.”

“Pigs died in agony and terror after their bodies hit the pavement and cars slammed into them, and traumatized survivors were put back onto the truck and sent to slaughter,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA encourages anyone disturbed by the thought of animals dying under a car to extend that sympathy to the pigs who die under the slaughterhouse knife and go vegan.”

In today’s meat industry, mother pigs are squeezed into narrow metal stalls barely larger than their bodies and kept almost constantly pregnant or nursing. Pigs’ tails are chopped off, their teeth are cut with pliers, and males are castrated—all without any pain relief. At the slaughterhouse, they’re hung upside down—often while still conscious—and bled to death. Every person who goes vegan spares the lives of nearly 200 animals each year.

PETA notes that there have been at least 45 accidents involving trucks carrying animals used for food so far this year and that there were at least 89 last year.

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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Ahead of an autumn heat wave expected to shatter records and following the hottest summer ever, Danai Gurira is stepping up as a hero for animals with her beloved dog, Papi, in a new PETA ad reminding everyone that dogs should never be left alone in parked cars—not even for a “quick errand”—as temperatures there can soar to triple digits within minutes.

“I would never risk Papi’s life by leaving him alone in a car. He’s family. If he were in trouble, I would do anything to save him,” says Gurira. “My friends at PETA and I are urging everyone to be a warrior for animals. If you see a dog alone in a parked car, do whatever it takes to save them.”

At least 149 companion animals have died from heat-related causes in 2023—nearly triple the amount of deaths reported last year. (The actual figure is likely far higher, as most deaths go unreported.) PETA points out that when it’s 75 degrees outside, the temperature inside a parked car can soar to 94 degrees in just 10 minutes, and when it’s 90 degrees outside, the temperature inside a parked car can reach 109 degrees in just minutes. As the temperature climbs, dogs endure agonizing physical reactions to the heat: They go into shock, vomit blood, urinate, suffer from diarrhea, and can experience multi-organ failure, cardiopulmonary arrest, fluid buildup in the lungs, muscle tremors, seizures, unconsciousness, and, finally, death.

Anyone who sees a dog or a child in a parked car should never leave the scene and should take immediate action: Call 911. Then write down the vehicle’s make, model, color, and license plate number and rush to have nearby stores page the owner. If authorities are unresponsive or too slow and the dog’s life appears to be in imminent danger, find a witness and take the necessary steps to remove them from the car.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and offers an emergency window-breaking hammer on its website. 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.

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