'Reject Violence and Go Vegan,' Says PETA
For Immediate Release:
June 6, 2011
Contact:
Ashley Gonzalez
Madison, Wis. - Holding posters that read, "Meat Is Murder" and "A Pork Chop Stops a Beating Heart," PETA members will surround the Dane County Courthouse on Tuesday as preliminary hearings begin for the man charged with planning to shoot a doctor at a Madison clinic where abortions are performed. PETA's point? The meat industry is responsible for immense suffering and innumerable deaths—so it's about as anti-life as it gets.
Where: Dane County Courthouse, 215 S. Hamilton St. (at the intersection of W. Wilson Street), Madison
When: Tuesday, June 7, 8 a.m.
"'Pro-life meat-eater' is an oxymoron," says PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich. "The best way for any of us to protect life is to fully abstain from violence by adopting a cruelty-free vegan diet."
In today's industrialized meat and dairy industries, chickens and turkeys have their throats cut while they're still conscious, piglets have their tails and testicles cut off without being given any painkillers, fish suffocate or are cut open while they're still alive on the decks of fishing boats, and calves are taken away from their mothers within hours of birth.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.