Kategorie: Animals

Attendees at Saturday’s Mac and Cheese Festival will get a tasty treat before they even enter the main event—PETA supporters will hand out free Babybel Plant-Based cheese snacks and remind people that loving cheese and being kind to cows can go hand in hand.

When:    Saturday, September 30, 4-6 p.m.

Where:    Outside the Mac and Cheese Festival, Mercy Health Stadium, 2009 Baseball Blvd., Avon

PETA supporters at a previous vegan cheese giveaway. Photos: PETA

“Cows love their calves and produce milk to nourish them, not so humans can enjoy a fleeting bite of brie,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges cheese lovers to be kind to cows by ditching dairy and indulging in the many delicious cashew, almond, and other plant-based milks and cheeses available.”

In the dairy industry, calves are torn away from their mothers within a day of birth so that the milk meant for them can be stolen and sold to humans. PETA’s investigations into dairy facilities have found workers electroshocking cows in the face, hitting them with poles and a cane, and abusing them in other ways. Once their bodies wear out from repeated pregnancies, they’re sent to slaughter.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers free vegan starter kits to help anyone make the switch.

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 gathered earlier today at the Nucleus Awards at the University City Science Center, disrupting Eli Lilly Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer Daniel Skovronsky as he accepted the Commercialization Award in order to expose the pharmaceutical company’s shameful refusal to ban the cruel forced swim test. Video footage of the disruption is available here.

In the forced swim test, also known as the “behavioral despair test,” experimenters dose mice, hamsters, or other small animals with a substance, place them in inescapable beakers of water, and force them to swim to keep from drowning—supposedly to shed light on human depression. Scientists have heavily criticized this test as a poor model of depression, and using it could even rule out effective new drugs. Eli Lilly has tormented at least 3,400 mice and rats in the forced swim test since 1993, but none of those experiments produced a single usable antidepressant.

“Daniel Skovronsky is defending a scientifically debunked experiment that forces tiny animals to fear that they’ll drown,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell. “PETA is calling on Eli Lilly to join other major drug companies that have already banned the test.”

Numerous other companies—including Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbVie, Roche, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk A/S, Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, and Bristol Myers Squibb—have banned the test.

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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On Friday, a pack of “polar bears” will pound the pavement to the Starbucks store at Midtown Plaza to urge the company to stop charging customers extra for vegan milk—which incentivizes them to opt for dairy, even though the industry is a top producer of the greenhouse gases that are contributing to melting the ice caps, killing polar bears, and otherwise driving the climate catastrophe. The pleading “bears” are the latest action in PETA’s campaign calling on Starbucks to end the upcharge for vegan milks, which the company already agrees are better for the planet.

Photo: PETA

When:    Friday, September 29, 12 noon

Where:    212 S. Tryon St. (between W. Third and W. Fourth streets), Charlotte

“Starbucks admits that it has a massive carbon footprint from its use of dairy, yet the company still refuses to put the planet over profits,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Starbucks to end the shameful vegan milk surcharge and give a frap about the polar bears who die on melting ice caps and the cows forcibly impregnated for dairy.”

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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A Louisiana appeals court has ruled that Louisiana State University (LSU) must turn over records of taxpayer-funded experiments on birds conducted by assistant professor Christine Lattin.

The ruling of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit, requires the university to turn over all veterinary-care records for birds who have been captured, held at LSU, tormented, and killed in Lattin’s experiments; certain videos of her experiments; and any records related to her successful attempt to change Baton Rouge’s bird-protection ordinance. The city ordinance prohibits trapping or harming wild birds, but it was changed in 2020 to exempt experimentation, apparently following pressure from Lattin.

PETA filed its lawsuit in December 2020 after the school failed to release documents pursuant to PETA’s public records requests. Last year, the trial court also ordered LSU to pay PETA over $73,500 in attorney’s fees and costs.

PETA supporters protest Lattin’s experiments. Photo: PETA

“LSU hoped to keep the public in the dark about what Christine Lattin actually does to birds in her lab,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “As PETA publicizes Lattin’s horrors, it expects that taxpayers will be stunned to see what passes as science at LSU.”

Since at least 2008, Lattin has trapped hundreds of wild birds for her curiosity-driven experiments, in which she has pumped them full of drugs and hormones, fed them crude oil, wounded their legs, plucked their feathers, exposed them to terrifying predator sounds, and forced them to endure other torment. At the end of the experiments, she kills them.

New Orleans-based attorney Alysson Mills represented PETA at trial and on appeal.

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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