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April 5, 2024

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Norfolk, Va. – Following information that one more chicken flu outbreak is sweeping the nation and practically 2 million chickens have been killed by Texas-based egg vendor Cal-Maine Meals Inc., PETA is hitting cities throughout the nation with a multipronged marketing campaign warning of the hazards of constant to eat meat, eggs, and dairy from animals confined to filthy, severely crowded sheds or feedlots and inspiring individuals to take the easy and apparent step of going vegan.

PETA is speaking with advert corporations about inserting a stark, sky-high warning close to Cal-Maine’s Texas operation and in main cities throughout the nation, reminding everybody that farms, feedlots, and slaughterhouses are breeding grounds for a number of lethal pathogens that may simply mutate and unfold to people.

PETA’s sky-high warning

PETA supporters took motion within the Lone Star State yesterday by flocking to Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, the place they gave away dozens of scrumptious vegan hard-boiled WunderEggs and dished out free vegan starter kits with suggestions and recipes for consuming vegan.

Credit score: PETA

“Hell on Wheels”—PETA’s life-size, hyper-realistic hen transport truck lined with photographs of actual chickens crammed into crates on their option to slaughter—is within the midst of a cross-country tour and is at present in Mississippi, close to Cal-Maine’s headquarters, bombarding diners with precise recorded sounds of dying birds’ cries together with a subliminal message each 10 seconds suggesting that folks go vegan. The vexatious automobile delivers the horrors of the slaughterhouse straight to restaurant patrons who could also be considering of chowing down on fried hen throughout lunch and can quickly be on its option to Arkansas and Louisiana.

Credit score: PETA

Hell on Wheels. Credit score: PETA

“Consuming meat, eggs, and dairy from deplorable operations the place 1000’s and even hundreds of thousands of animals are confined amid their very own waste not solely is disgusting but additionally will unquestionably result in one other pandemic,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges everybody to go vegan now, earlier than it’s too late.”

PETA factors out that almost all of ailments which have brought about the pandemic or epidemics lately originated in animals earlier than being transmitted to people, together with COVID-19, AIDS, avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Zika. Strains of avian flu have already unfold, decimating wild chicken populations across the globe.

For these trying to preserve pathogens off their plates or just keep away from paying skyrocketing egg costs, PETA provides a roundup of scrumptious, animal-friendly, and protected vegan egg choices in addition to a vegan egg replacer information for dwelling cooks.

Final yr alone, not less than 58 million birds confined on farms have been systematically killed to restrict the unfold of the virus, typically utilizing horrific strategies, together with air flow shutdown (VSD), a protracted and terrifying course of wherein employees shut off all airflow to the sheds wherein the animals are saved, slowly suffocating them; VSD Plus, which entails including warmth or gasoline to the air, depriving the animals of oxygen, and elevating the temperature to as excessive as 120 levels, basically baking them alive; and slowly suffocating them with a substance just like firefighting foam.

PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to eat”—factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and provides free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on X, Fb, or Instagram.