Armed with signs reading, “Wegmans Still Selling ‘Humane’ Cruelty,” PETA supporters and members of Animal Rights Rochester will raise a ruckus outside the Armed with signs reading, “Wegmans Still Selling ‘Humane’ Cruelty,” PETA supporters and members of Animal Rights Rochester will raise a ruckus outside the supermarket to urge Wegmans to reconsider its ties to Plainville Farms, where a PETA exposé revealed workers kicking, choking, and stomping on birds and beating them with a heavy metal rod, despite Plainville’s “humane” label. The action follows last week’s news that the Pennsylvania State Police charged 11 former workers with 139 counts of cruelty to animals, including six felonies, across six counties the largest number of charges in any factory-farmed animal case in U.S. history.
PETA is going to the mat for the homeless animals flooding Hawaii’s animal shelters by placing an irresistible message “Your Yoga Partner Is Waiting in an
“Give a Dam About Climate Change,” declares a new sky-high message that reminds visitors en route to the Hoover Dam that eating just 1 pound of meat “Give a Dam About Climate Change,” declares a new sky-high message that reminds visitors en route to the Hoover Dam that eating just 1 pound of meat wastes 1,800 gallons of water. The can’t-miss PETA plea greets visitors to the iconic monument, who will learn that the dam generates enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people each year but won’t hear another vital fact: that an estimated 55% of the freshwater supply in the U.S. goes to raising animals for food. Talk about waste water!
Ahead of Earth Day on April 22 and in response to the Red Sox’s pledge to make Fenway Park carbon neutral by allotting a portion of ticket sales to carbon Ahead of Earth Day on April 22 and in response to the Red Sox’s pledge to make Fenway Park carbon neutral by allotting a portion of ticket sales to carbon offset purchases, PETA’s “Climate Change Cow” mascot, Clarabelle, will moove to Beantown. Alongside a herd of PETA supporters, she’ll pass out free vegan jerky to fans and push Fenway to address the climate catastrophe fully by becoming an all-vegan stadium, as animal agriculture alone is responsible for nearly one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions.