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  • ‘Hell on Wheels’ Is Coming: Squawking Chicken Truck to Ruffle Feathers Outside Local Restaurants

    Local diners just might think twice about chowing down on fried chicken after they see—and hear—“Hell on Wheels,” PETA’s guerilla-marketing campaign featuring a life-size chicken transport truck covered with images of real chickens crammed into crates on their way to a slaughterhouse, complete with actual recorded sounds of the birds’ cries and a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan. The vexatious vehicle will patrol downtown Columbia on Saturday before moving on to confront diners at Chick-fil-A, 92 Chicken, Home Team BBQ, Dave’s Hot Chicken, Doc’s Barbeque, Buffalo Wild Wings, Bernie’s Chicken, and PDQ as part of the group’s East Coast tour.

    When:    Saturday, December 2, 12 noon

    Where:    Main Street (between the South Carolina State House and Elmwood Avenue), Columbia

    “Behind every barbecued wing or bucket of fried chicken is a once-living, sensitive individual who was crammed onto a truck for a terrifying, miserable journey to their death,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck is an appeal to anyone who eats chicken to remember that the meat industry is cruel to birds and the only kind meal is a vegan one.”

    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.

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  • Breaking: PETA Protesters Chained Up at Liberty Media HQ to Blast Ties to Deadly Dog-Sled Race

    To protest Liberty Media’s support of the Iditarod dog-sled race, in which over 150 dogs have died, two PETA supporters have scrawled that Liberty “Funds Dog Deaths” in fake blood on the Englewood-based company’s headquarters sign and are chained by the neck to concrete posts in the snow—just as dogs used in the deadly race are kept chained when they’re not being forced to run. Photos and video from the “chaining” are available here.

    PETA notes that Alaska Airlines, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s, Wells Fargo, ExxonMobil, and others stopped supporting the Iditarod after learning from PETA how dogs suffer and die because of the race, but Liberty subsidiary GCI, an internet service provider, has been sponsoring the notorious event to the tune of more than $250,000 every year.

    “Liberty is financing a race in which dogs are forced to run across 1,000 miles of snow and ice until their paws become bloody and their bodies give out,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA won’t let up the pressure on Liberty until it joins the many companies that have dropped their sponsorship of this despicably cruel race.”

    Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don’t finish it. During this year’s race—which had the smallest field of mushers in the event’s history—approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, leaving the remaining ones to work even harder. The race ended in controversy after the winner was caught on video dragging exhausted dogs toward a checkpoint.

    The leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod is aspiration pneumonia—caused by inhaling their own vomit—and the race’s official death toll doesn’t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren’t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained next to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold, a practice exposed in a PETA undercover investigation.

    Liberty Media’s headquarters—the site of PETA’s “chaining”—is located at 12300 Liberty Blvd., Englewood.

    PETA—which owns stock in Liberty and whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—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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  • Longing for a Getaway to Greece? This Could Be Your Chance 

    Want the Ultimate Vegan Experience in Greece? Here’s How to Bid 

    Longing for a Getaway to Greece? This Could Be Your Chance 

    Experience the blue roofs and waters of Santorini with a three-night stay at the island’s first 100% vegan hotel. Bid on this item now in PETA’s end-of-year auction, which helps animals. 

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  • ‘Hell on Wheels’ Is Coming: Squawking Chicken Truck to Ruffle Feathers Outside Local Restaurants

    Local diners just might think twice about chowing down on fried chicken after they see—and hear—“Hell on Wheels,” PETA’s guerilla-marketing campaign featuring a life-size chicken transport truck covered with images of real chickens crammed into crates on their way to a slaughterhouse, complete with actual recorded sounds of the birds’ cries and a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan. The vexatious vehicle will circle One South at The Plaza—home to Chick-fil-A, Tupelo Honey, and other meaty eateries—before moving on to confront Charlotte diners at Dave’s Hot Chicken, Haberdish, Bossy Beulah’s, LuLu’s Express, Viva Chicken, The Eagle Food & Beer Hall, and Buffalo Eatz as part of the group’s East Coast tour.

    When:    Thursday, November 30, 12 noon

    Where:    One South at The Plaza, E. Trade and S. Tryon streets, Charlotte

    “Behind every barbecued wing or bucket of fried chicken is a once-living, sensitive individual who was crammed onto a truck for a terrifying, miserable journey to their death,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck is an appeal to anyone who eats chicken to remember that the meat industry is cruel to birds and the only kind meal is a vegan one.”

    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.

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  • The Adventure of a Lifetime Is Just a Bid Away! 

    Is Visiting Guatemala on Your Bucket List? Bid to Win an Amazing Trip There 

    The Adventure of a Lifetime Is Just a Bid Away! 

    Learn how you could win an adventure like no other at a resort in Guatemala. Bid today on this and other items to help animals in PETA’s end-of-year auction. 

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  • Chained PETA ‘Monkeys’ to Dump Coconuts at Whole Foods Over Ties to Forced Labor

    Whole Foods’ continued sale of Thai coconut milk, even though it knows that the Thai coconut industry is driven by the forced labor of endangered pig-tailed macaques, has earned the grocery giant an international rebuke, so PETA “monkeys” in prisoner garb will dump wheelbarrows of humanely picked coconuts outside the Whole Foods store on W. Eighth Avenue on Wednesday.

    When:    Wednesday, November 29, 12 noon

    Where:    Outside Whole Foods Market, 510 W. Eighth Ave. (at the intersection with Cambie Street), Vancouver

    Many monkeys used in Thailand’s coconut-picking industry are illegally snatched from their natural habitat as babies, fitted with rigid metal collars, chained, whipped, and forced to climb trees to pick heavy coconuts. Their canine teeth are sometimes pulled out in order to leave them defenseless. Because the industry and the Thai government lie about their systemic reliance on forced monkey labor, it’s impossible to guarantee that any coconut milk from Thailand is free of it. Multiple companies that produce coconut milk sold at Whole Foods were named by industry workers in a PETA Asia investigation as having used coconuts obtained by monkey labor.

    PETA Whole Foods coconut dump

    Chained “monkeys” in prisoner garb dump coconuts outside a Whole Foods store to blast the company’s continued sale of Thai coconut products. Credit: PETA

    “Whole Foods’ continued sale of products implicated in the abuse of an endangered species is particularly appalling coming from a company that claims to care about animal welfare,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Whole Foods to live up to its values and sell coconut milk only from countries where monkey labor isn’t used, including India, Indonesia, and the Philippines.”

    PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—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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  • Ready for the Five-Night Trip of Your Life? Bid Today on a Vegan Safari! 

    It’s the Vegan Experience of a Lifetime—and You Can Bid Today 

    Ready for the Five-Night Trip of Your Life? Bid Today on a Vegan Safari! 

    Are you ready to check “Go on an African safari” off your bucket list? Bid today to help animals in PETA’s end-of-year auction. 

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  • VIDEO: Find Out Why Nude ‘Monkeys’ Were Arrested at the Harvard-Yale Game

    There was no stopping PETA’s monkey business at the 2023 Harvard-Yale football game. Two PETA supporters body-painted as macaques, wearing tails and holding signs that read, “Harvard: End Monkey Tests!” stormed the field during the game’s third quarter to protest against Harvard University experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s maternal and sensory deprivation procedures on monkeys. Although police quickly took away their signs and detained the two “monkeys” as well as a third protester wearing a “Harvard: Shut Down the Monkey Lab” shirt, PETA scored the ultimate touchdown and sent a clear message to Harvard that we’ll continue to speak up for the monkeys tormented and killed by Livingstone, no matter what.

    What Does Harvard Do to Monkeys in Its Experiments?

    Livingstone has torn baby monkeys away from their mothers, sewn the infants’ eyes shut for up to a year, and then observed how abnormally their vision developed. In other tests, the abducted baby monkeys are reared by humans wearing welding masks so that the traumatized animals never see anyone’s face, human or monkey. Then Livingstone restrains their heads using head posts, chin straps, and/or bite bars in order to test their facial-processing abilities or surgically implants electrodes in their brains to record how their deprived brain cells respond to visual stimuli. After years of torment, she kills many of the monkeys and dissects their brains. She has conducted these types of curiosity-driven experiments for 40 years without identifying a treatment or cure for humans. Help PETA urge Harvard to end these barbaric experiments by taking action:

    Harvard protest

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  • Tutu-Wearing Turkey Ally in Augusta to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA “chick” wearing a turkey-themed outfit—complete with a festive faux-feather tutu—will be joined by a flock of supporters giving away turkey-free holiday roasts in front of Sprouts Farmers Market on Saturday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:    Saturday, November 18, 1 p.m.

    Where:    In front of Sprouts Farmers Market, 630 Crane Creek Dr., Augusta

    PETA supporters at a previous vegan roast giveaway. Credit: PETA

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

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

    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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  • Tutu-Wearing Turkey Ally in Norfolk to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA “chick” wearing a turkey-themed showgirl outfit—complete with a bright orange faux-feather headdress—will give away turkey-free holiday roasts in front of the Aldi store in Ghent on Saturday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:    Saturday, November 18, 11:15 a.m.

    Where:    In front of the Aldi in Ghent, 730 W. 21st St., Norfolk

    Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s tutu-wearing ‘turkeys’ are urging everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

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

    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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  • Tutu-Wearing Turkey Ally in Palm Beach Gardens to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA “chick” wearing a turkey-themed outfit—complete with a festive faux-feather tutu—will give away turkey-free holiday roasts in front of Trader Joe’s on Sunday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:     Sunday, November 19, 12 noon

    Where:    In front of Trader Joe’s, 2560 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens

    PETA supporters at a previous vegan roast giveaway. Credit: PETA

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s tutu-wearing ‘turkeys’ are urging everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

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

    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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  • Giant Plush ‘Turkey’ to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA supporter dressed in a colorful turkey onesie will lead a giveaway of turkey-free holiday roasts in front of a Publix Super Markets Store tomorrow to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:    Friday, November 17, 3 p.m.

    Where:    In front of Publix, 250 Third St. S., St. Petersburg

    PETA supporters at a previous vegan roast giveaway. Credit: PETA

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘turkey’ is urging everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

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

    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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  • Tutu-Wearing ‘Turkey’ to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts in Atlanta for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA “chick” wearing a turkey-themed showgirl outfit—complete with a bright orange faux-feather tutu—will give away turkey-free holiday roasts and free “ThanksVegan” recipe guides at the Kroger entrance to the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail on Sunday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:    Sunday, November 19, 1:30 p.m.

    Where:    At the Kroger entrance to the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail, north of North Avenue N.E., Atlanta (Please see the Google Maps link here.)

    Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s tutu-wearing ‘turkey’ is urging everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

    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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  • Tutu-Wearing ‘Turkey’ to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a PETA “chick” wearing a turkey-themed showgirl outfit—complete with a bright orange faux-feather tutu—will give away turkey-free holiday roasts downtown during the Fall Festival of the Arts DeLand on Sunday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:    Sunday, November 19, 12:30 p.m

    Where:    100 N. Woodland Blvd. (at the intersection with E. New York Avenue), DeLand

    Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s tutu-wearing ‘turkeys’ are urging everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a “ThanksVegan” recipe guide.

    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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  • Newest Virtual Reality Experience From peta2 Promises Close Encounters at UC-Irvine

    To encourage empathy for animals suffering in university laboratories, peta2, part of PETA’s youth division, is visiting the University of California–Irvine tomorrow with Abduction, a unique virtual reality experience landing on college campuses across the country. In this eerie experience, visitors will enter a mysterious truck containing a mobile virtual reality studio. The students will seemingly find themselves stranded in the desert with a couple of fellow humans, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and subjected to a shocking experience, similar to what animals endure in laboratories. They’ll watch as their friends are subjected to painful tests—knowing that they’ll be next.

    When:    Thursday, November 16, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

    Where:    Aldrich Park, University of California–Irvine

    Watch the trailer here. Broadcast-quality footage of the Abduction virtual reality experience is available upon request.

    text reads abduction over image of aliens and huddled humans

    At UC-Irvine, experimenters used chemicals to induce anxiety in 274 rats, subjected them to behavioral tests, killed them, and dissected their brains. In other experiments, pregnant guinea pigs were cut open and their barely developed fetuses—with no chance of survival—were removed. Experimenters also subjected pigs to electrochemical lipolysis, puncturing their skin in 10 to 12 places, inserting electrodes into their bodies, and applying an electric current in an attempt to damage fat cells.

    “Many students don’t know that on their own college campuses, frightened and confused animals are being psychologically tormented, mutilated, and killed in laboratories, with no way to escape or even understand what’s happening to them,” says Senior Director of peta2 Rachelle Owen. “peta2 is on a mission to open young people’s eyes to this cruelty, help students understand what it feels like, and motivate them to join our call for a switch to superior, non-animal research.”

    Studies show that 90% of all basic research—most of which involves animals—fails to lead to treatments for humans, which is why peta2 is pushing universities to pivot to sophisticated, human-relevant research methods.

    Abduction—which was filmed in VR180 with assistance from the immersive content creation studio Prosper XR—has stopped at nearly 50 other college campuses over the past year, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California–Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. Just this week, Abduction won Gold and Audience honors from the Shorty Awards.

    peta2—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit peta2.com or follow the group on TikTok or Instagram.

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  • ‘Leave Me in Peace, Not in Pieces!’: PETA Message Lands in St. Louis With Turkey-Free Roast Giveaway

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, PETA supporters will hand out free vegan roasts near the group’s new sky-high appeal that urges people to consider the turkeys who are tormented and killed to become holiday centerpieces. The action—along with four more unmissable pleas on local bus shelters along the Ameren’s Thanks-for-Giving Parade route—is part of PETA’s “ThanksVegan” campaign to encourage everyone to enjoy a vegan holiday.

    When:    Friday, November 17, 12 noon

    Where:    Along Jefferson Avenue near the I-64 off-ramp, St. Louis

    Credit: PETA

    “Turkeys are smart, curious individuals who love their families and deserve to live in peace rather than ending up on a fork,” says PETA Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA stands at the ready with tips, recipes, and more so that everyone can have a delicious ‘ThanksVegan’ meal that leaves turkeys and all other animals off the menu.”

    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. 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 billboard is located on westbound I-64 along the Exit 38B/Jefferson Avenue off-ramp. The four bus shelter ads are located between the 1500 and 1800 blocks of Market Street.

    PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a “ThanksVegan” recipe guide. 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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  • Watch Artist Create Giant Graphic Mural Depicting Cruelty of Wool and Leather Industries

    New York street artist Praxis is bringing his talents to Sunset Boulevard this week, where he’ll create an unmissable animal rights appeal on the side of the PETA Empathy Center during a four-day painting marathon. Everyone is invited to come by the center to see him in action as he paints what might be the largest animal rights mural in the world. His original artwork will be part of PETA’s animal-free clothing campaign to end the torment and slaughter of animals for wool and leather (“hairless fur”).

    When:    Tuesday, November 14 to Friday, November 17, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

    Where:    The wall facing N. Benton Way at the PETA Empathy Center, 2624 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles

    A mock-up of the mural that will be painted

    “This stunning mural will jolt everyone who sees it into realizing that sheep and cows are thinking, feeling individuals who don’t want to die for sweaters and shoes,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges anyone inspired by its message to stick to animal-friendly vegan clothing.”

    A big part of the profit from slaughtering cows is their hide. Cows whose skin is used for leather are castrated and branded and their tails are cut off—all without painkillers—before they’re violently killed. PETA entities have documented cruelty to sheep at wool operations worldwide in 14 exposés. Even on cleverly labeled “sustainable” and “responsible” farms, workers are found to beat, stomp on, and cut open terrified, struggling sheep as they shear them. Animal agriculture is responsible for nearly one-fifth of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

    PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—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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  • PETA’s Pro-Turkey Messaging Blitz to Bring ‘Human Carcass’ Display Downtown

    In time for Thanksgiving and in the country’s top turkey-producing state, a naked, “trussed up” PETA supporter will lie next to a “turkey carcass” on a table at a busy downtown intersection on Thursday to remind passersby that we’re the same in all the ways that matter. The action—along with a pro-turkey appeal at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport—is part of PETA’s “ThanksVegan” campaign to encourage everyone to enjoy a vegan holiday.

    When:    Thursday, November 16, 12 noon

    Where:    At the intersection of Nicollet Mall and S. Ninth Street, Minneapolis

    “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.

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  • Newest Virtual Reality Experience From peta2 Promises Close Encounters at University of California–Berkeley

    To encourage empathy for animals suffering in university laboratories, peta2, part of PETA’s youth division, is visiting the University of California–Berkeley tomorrow with Abduction, a unique virtual reality experience landing on college campuses across the country. In this eerie experience, visitors will enter a mysterious truck containing a mobile virtual reality studio. The students will seemingly find themselves stranded in the desert with a couple of fellow humans, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and subjected to a shocking experience, similar to what animals endure in laboratories. They’ll watch as their friends are subjected to painful tests—knowing that they’ll be next.

    When:    Tuesday, November 14, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

    Where:    Dwinelle Plaza, University of California–Berkeley

    Watch the trailer here. Broadcast-quality footage of the Abduction virtual reality experience is available upon request.

    text reads abduction over image of aliens and huddled humans

    At the University of California–Berkeley, experimenters used mice who were specifically bred to display symptoms of autism spectrum disorder, carving out a portion of their skulls so they could observe and manipulate their brain activity. Experimenters implanted headposts on the mice and secured their individual whiskers into separate tubes to test their sensitivity before forcing the mice to perform various tasks in complete darkness for five days a week. All the mice were killed and dissected.

    In another experiment, mice were deliberately infected with tick-borne pathogens, which are known to cause paralysis, severe skin lesions, facial swelling, and other symptoms. Once their disease progression was deemed severe enough, the mice were killed by carbon dioxide asphyxiation and spinal dislocation.

    Experimenters also subjected guinea pigs, who were only 2 weeks old, to experience nearsightedness by inserting vision-distorting contact lenses in their eyes daily before the young animals were killed.

    “Many students don’t know that on their own college campuses, frightened and confused animals are being psychologically tormented, mutilated, and killed in laboratories, with no way to escape or even understand what’s happening to them,” says Senior Director of peta2 Rachelle Owen. “peta2 is on a mission to open young people’s eyes to this cruelty, help students understand what it feels like, and motivate them to join our call for a switch to superior, non-animal research.”

    Studies show that 90% of all basic research—most of which involves animals—fails to lead to treatments for humans, which is why the group is pushing universities to pivot to sophisticated, human-relevant research methods.

    Abduction—which was filmed in VR180 with assistance from the immersive content creation studio Prosper XR—has stopped at nearly 50 other college campuses over the past year, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California–Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin.

    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.

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  • Newest Virtual Reality Experience From peta2 Promises Close Encounters at University of California–Berkeley

    To encourage empathy for animals suffering in university laboratories, peta2, part of PETA’s youth division, is visiting the University of California–Berkeley tomorrow with Abduction, a unique virtual reality experience landing on college campuses across the country. In this eerie experience, visitors will enter a mysterious truck containing a mobile virtual reality studio. The students will seemingly find themselves stranded in the desert with a couple of fellow humans, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and subjected to a shocking experience, similar to what animals endure in laboratories. They’ll watch as their friends are subjected to painful tests—knowing that they’ll be next.

    When:    Tuesday, November 14, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

    Where:    Dwinelle Plaza, University of California–Berkeley

    Watch the trailer here. Broadcast-quality footage of the Abduction virtual reality experience is available upon request.

    text reads abduction over image of aliens and huddled humans

    At the University of California–Berkeley, experimenters used mice who were specifically bred to display symptoms of autism spectrum disorder, carving out a portion of their skulls so they could observe and manipulate their brain activity. Experimenters implanted headposts on the mice and secured their individual whiskers into separate tubes to test their sensitivity before forcing the mice to perform various tasks in complete darkness for five days a week. All the mice were killed and dissected.

    In another experiment, mice were deliberately infected with tick-borne pathogens, which are known to cause paralysis, severe skin lesions, facial swelling, and other symptoms. Once their disease progression was deemed severe enough, the mice were killed by carbon dioxide asphyxiation and spinal dislocation.

    Experimenters also subjected guinea pigs, who were only 2 weeks old, to experience nearsightedness by inserting vision-distorting contact lenses in their eyes daily before the young animals were killed.

    “Many students don’t know that on their own college campuses, frightened and confused animals are being psychologically tormented, mutilated, and killed in laboratories, with no way to escape or even understand what’s happening to them,” says Senior Director of peta2 Rachelle Owen. “peta2 is on a mission to open young people’s eyes to this cruelty, help students understand what it feels like, and motivate them to join our call for a switch to superior, non-animal research.”

    Studies show that 90% of all basic research—most of which involves animals—fails to lead to treatments for humans, which is why the group is pushing universities to pivot to sophisticated, human-relevant research methods.

    Abduction—which was filmed in VR180 with assistance from the immersive content creation studio Prosper XR—has stopped at nearly 50 other college campuses over the past year, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California–Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin.

    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.

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  • Giant ‘Wounded Mouse’ to Blast Ajinomoto’s Animal Tests

    Led by a massive “surgically mutilated mouse,” PETA supporters will unfurl a banner on Thursday at the U.S. headquarters of a major subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Ajinomoto Co. Inc.—the world’s largest manufacturer of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and the owner of packaged frozen-food brands Tai Pei, Ling Ling, and José Olé—to challenge the company’s deadly tests on mice, dogs, pigs, rats, and other animals.

    When:    Thursday, November 16, 12 noon

    Where:    250 E. Devon Ave., Itasca

    “Ajinomoto has tormented and killed mice, dogs, and other animals in tests that are not required by law,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on Ajinomoto to stop taking lives in order to make dubious human health claims for marketing purposes.”

    Ajinomoto experimenters have compelled mice to fight each other, cut their nerves, and injected them with toxic drugs; cut open dogs’ stomachs, starved them, and fed them MSG; inserted tubes into day-old piglets’ arteries and starved them; and electroshocked rats, among other pointless procedures. Dozens of other food and beverage companies around the world have stopped contributing to animal tests after talking with PETA.

    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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  • PETA Primate Scientist to Address Brazoria County Commissioners Over Proposed Monkey Facility

    Tomorrow, PETA senior science advisor and primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel will urge Brazoria County, Texas, commissioners during the panel’s public meeting to halt a secretive plan by Charles River Laboratories to build a massive monkey-importation and breeding warehouse on more than 500 ecologically sensitive acres.

    When:    Tuesday, November 14, 9 a.m.–12 noon

    Where:    Brazoria County Courthouse Campus Administration Building, 237 E. Locust St., Angleton

    Dr. Jones-Engel will detail the harm that the facility would cause to monkeys, humans, and the land, which is populated with old-growth forest affected by floods and hurricanes. Concerned residents, many of whom contacted PETA after learning about Charles River’s plan will also speak at the meeting.

    An endangered long-tailed macaque monkey. Credit: PETA

    “It’s unacceptable for Charles River to even think about establishing a facility that could harm imported endangered monkeys, destroy ecologically fragile land, and imperil human health with disease and waste,” says Jones-Engel. “PETA is calling on local officials to stop this notorious monkey supplier from moving into the county.”

    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.

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  • Here’s How PETA Helped Animals This ‘ThanksVegan’—and How You Can, Too

    Ahead of this year’s “ThanksVegan” celebrations, PETA urged people across North America to choose a compassionate holiday feast. Approximately 46 million turkeys are killed and sold each year in the U.S. for Thanksgiving, but simply choosing to serve a vegan meal helps spare them an agonizing death. Turkeys are playful birds who protect their flocks and bond with humans—some who live on farm sanctuaries have even been known to choose their favorite people. Turkeys and all other animals deserve respect, which is why we’re urging people across the country to choose compassion this Thanksgiving by going vegan.

    Here are some of the ways PETA helped make Thanksgiving better for all animals in 2023:

    Our “Leave Me in Peace, Not in Pieces” turkey billboard went up above PETA’s Los Angeles office in a high-traffic area.

    We also placed the same ad at four bus shelters and a billboard along the route of St. Louis’ Thanksgiving parade to inspire families at the event to help end the exploitation of turkeys.

    The “Leave Me in Peace, Not in Pieces” ad is also up at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport—the busiest airport in Minnesota, one of the country’s top turkey producers—in time for Thanksgiving travel. The ad encourages travelers to extend compassion to all animals this holiday season and the rest of the year by leaving them off their plates.

    PETA’s thought-provoking billboards displaying the message “She Did Not Consent—Go Vegan This Thanksgiving” went up in Concord, North Carolina, and two cities in Indiana: Fort Wayne and South Bend. These images point out that consent isn’t just a human issue and refer to the horrific abuse that has occurred on some farms and at some slaughterhouses in the U.S., including those labeled “humane.”

    Another billboard, with the message “Turkeys Feel Pain, Too. Don’t Have a Hand in Their Suffering,” went up along the route of Detroit’s popular Thanksgiving parade to remind attendees—and those watching the televised parade—about who’s abused and killed for Thanksgiving dinner.

    PETA supporters gave away hundreds of vegan roasts in cities across the country, including Beaverton, Oregon; Portland, Oregon; and Woodland Hills, California.

    Flocks of PETA “chicks” wearing faux-feather tutus and headbands and holding signs saying, “Turkeys Go Wild for Tofurky,” gathered to hand out free vegan Tofurky roasts in Detroit and Philadelphia.

    Having a wonderful ThanksVegan at home is a compassionate and fulfilling way to embrace holiday tradition without harming anyone.

    Most supermarkets stock a variety of animal-free options at wallet-friendly prices—from dairy-free butter to vegan turkey roasts—so swapping ingredients is a snap.

    PETA’s free ThanksVegan Guide will help you cook the meal of your life for the next holiday and many more to come. Whether you’re hosting, traveling, or hunkering down at home for a small-scale feast, we’ve got you covered.

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  • ‘Human Carcass’ Display to Butt In With Thanksgiving Message: Go Vegan!

    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 Wednesday 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:    Wednesday, November 15, 12 noon

    Where:    At the intersection of E. Grand Avenue and E. Fourth Street, Des Moines

    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.

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  • You Won’t Want to Miss This: Jump Into ‘Auction’ for Animals!

    You Won’t Want to Miss This: Jump Into Auction for Animals!

    It’s PETA’s Biggest Auction of the Year—Here’s How You Can Join In

    These Prizes Will Blow You Away: Don’t Miss PETA’s End-of-Year Auction

    What Could You Win at PETA’s Auction This Year? Check It Out

    What Can You Win at PETA’s Auction? Check Out the Prizes Now!

    Don’t Wait! Jump Into Auction for Animals—See What You Can Win

    Don’t Wait! Find Out Which Spectacular Items You Could Win While Helping Animals

    This Auction Has Something for Everyone—What Will You Bid on First?

    How Can You Help Animals Before the End of the Year? Bid in PETA’s Auction!

    Learn How You Can Win a Spectacular Vacation and More—While Helping Animals

    You Can Help Animals and Win Jaw-Dropping Prizes—Here’s How!

     

    Vegan vacations, bespoke paintings, cooking classes, giftboxes, and more are waiting for you during PETA’s end-of-year auction. Each prize helps animals, so what will you bid on first?

     

    There’s something for everyone at PETA’s first-ever “Jump Into Auction for Animals.” The only question is what will you bid on first?

     

    Animals are the biggest winners at PETA’s end-of-year fundraiser. Don’t miss your chance to bid before December 4!

     

     

     

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  • ‘Human Carcass’ Display to Butt In With Thanksgiving Message: Go Vegan!

    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.

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  • PETA Brings Horror Stories From NIH Monkey Fright Lab to the Streets of Bethesda and D.C.

    PETA is unveiling new ads in the Washington, D.C., area on behalf of monkeys caged for years in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray. These include video footage of real monkeys named Beamish and Guinness on a mobile billboard circling the NIH campus and large images of Guinness on Capital Bikeshare stands nearby in Washington.

    When:    Thursday, November 9, 8:30–9:30 a.m.

    Where:    Near the escalator at the Medical Center Metro station, Bethesda

    To kick it off, a larger-than-life Beamish mascot and PETA members will greet commuters tomorrow at the Medical Center Metro station, which is used by many NIH staffers, and alert them to Murray’s cruel, taxpayer-funded monkey fright experiments.

    “These cruel fright experiments are relics of decades-old laboratory abuse of monkeys that should have ended with the Cold War,” said PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “NIH must shut down Elisabeth Murray’s fright experiments now and modernize its science.”

    This screen capture shows part of a video obtained by PETA through a Freedom of Information Act request.

    In Murray’s laboratory, experimenters cut open monkeys’ skulls, inject their brains with toxins, and implant titanium rods in their skulls. The monkeys are then isolated in tiny cages and repeatedly presented with realistic-looking spiders and snakes in experiments intentionally designed to terrify them. Murray has received $50 million in taxpayer funding since 1998 for her curiosity-driven experiments.

    Beamish’s and Guinness’ stories will be told on a mobile billboard circling the NIH campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on November 9. In addition, PETA’s messages calling on NIH to end the wasteful experiments will appear on Capital Bikeshare stands at the following locations: Broad Branch Road and Northampton Street N.W., Fessenden Street and Wisconsin Avenue N.W., McKinley Street and Connecticut Avenue N.W., Wisconsin Avenue and Ingomar Street N.W., and the National Portrait Gallery at Seventh and F streets N.W.

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  • Breaking: Protester Interrupts CEO to Plead for an End to Sponsorship of Deadly Dog-Sled Race

    A heavy security presence at the Liberty Investor Meeting at The Times Center didn’t prevent a PETA supporter from crashing the event today. As Liberty President and CEO Greg Maffei spoke to the audience, an animal advocate who had penetrated the meeting issued a heartfelt appeal for him to end his company’s support of the deadly Iditarod, a grueling 1,000-mile dog-sled race in Alaska in which more than 150 dogs have died. Video footage of the “plead-in”—which follows similar actions at events in Miami, San Francisco, and Beverly Hills, California, where Maffei also spoke—is available here.

    Alaska Airlines, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s, Wells Fargo, ExxonMobil, and many other companies have cut ties with the Iditarod after learning from PETA how dogs suffer and die because of the race, but Liberty subsidiary GCI, an internet service provider, is still sponsoring the notorious event to the tune of more than $250,000 every year.

    “Greg Maffei heads a company that finances forcing dogs to run until their paws bleed and their bodies give out—some even die after inhaling their own vomit—with 150 dead dogs and counting,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is pleading with Liberty to stop propping up this despicably cruel dog-sled race right now.”

    Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don’t finish it. During this year’s race—which had the smallest field of mushers in the event’s history—approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, leaving the remaining ones to work even harder. The race ended in controversy after the winner was caught on video dragging exhausted dogs toward a checkpoint.

    The leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod is aspiration pneumonia—caused by inhaling their own vomit—and the race’s official death toll doesn’t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren’t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained next to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold, a practice exposed in a PETA undercover investigation.

    PETA—which owns stock in Liberty—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and its motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment.”

    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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  • New PETA Virtual Reality Experience Promises Close Encounters at University of California–Davis

    To encourage empathy for animals suffering in university laboratories, PETA is visiting the University of California–Davis today with Abduction, a unique virtual reality experience landing on college campuses across the country. In this eerie experience, visitors will enter a mysterious truck containing a mobile virtual reality studio. The students will seemingly find themselves stranded in the desert with a couple of fellow humans, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and subjected to a shocking experience, similar to what animals endure in laboratories. They’ll watch as their friends are subjected to painful tests—knowing that they’ll be next.

    When:    Today, Thursday, November 9, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

    Where:    W. Quad Street, University of California–Davis

    Watch the trailer here. Broadcast-quality footage of the Abduction virtual reality experience is available upon request.

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    A recent PETA investigation revealed that staff at UC-Davis left a monkey unattended in a closed van for up to 90 minutes with a heater blasting 130-degree air directly into her cage, leading to her death. The university is also home to the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), where experimenters have cut open monkeys’ skulls, inserted implants that cooled portions of their brains as low as 35.6 degrees, and restrained them with headposts to observe their capacity to reach for bits of food. Other experiments at the CNPRC have included inflicting spinal cord injuries on rhesus macaques, forcibly separating baby monkeys from their mothers, and playing audio recordings mimicking baby monkeys’ cries for help to their caged fathers.

    The CNPRC also is the site of an Inhalation Exposure Core, a center in which monkeys are subjected to third-party studies involving the inhalation of toxic substances. In one such experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health, monkeys were forced to live in a room that was continually filled with tobacco smoke for a week at a time before they were killed and dissected.

    “Many students don’t know that on their own college campuses, animals are being psychologically tormented, mutilated, and killed in laboratories, with no way to escape or even understand what’s happening to them,” says Senior Director of peta2 Rachelle Owen. “PETA is on a mission to open young people’s eyes to this cruelty, help students understand what it feels like, and motivate them to join our call for a switch to superior, non-animal research.”

    Studies show that 90% of all basic research—most of which involves animals—fails to lead to treatments for humans, which is why PETA is pushing universities to pivot to sophisticated, human-relevant research methods.

    Abduction—which was filmed in VR180 with assistance from the immersive content creation studio Prosper XR—has stopped at nearly three dozen other college campuses over the past year, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California–Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin.

    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.

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  • Tutu-Wearing Turkey Allies to Distribute Dozens of Free Vegan Roasts for Thanksgiving

    Ahead of Thanksgiving, a flock of PETA “chicks” wearing turkey-themed showgirl outfits—complete with bright orange faux-feather headdresses—will give away turkey-free holiday roasts at local markets Saturday and Sunday to encourage people to enjoy a vegan holiday and give birds a break.

    When:    Saturday, November 11, 8:45 a.m. (Beaverton) and Sunday, November 12, 11:15 a.m. (Portland)

    Where:    At the northeast end of Beaverton Farmers Market, 12375 S.W. Fifth St., Beaverton, and New Seasons Market, 1214 S.E. Tacoma St., Portland

    Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers

    “Turkeys feel pain and fear, experience joy, value their lives, and don’t deserve to be carved up and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s tutu-wearing ‘turkeys’ are urging everyone to show a little mercy by tucking into savory, satisfying vegan roasts that give everyone something to be thankful for.”

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

    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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