‘Go Vegan’: PETA billboard will memorialize 50 cows killed in Fort Worth crash
The animal welfare organization announced it will place a billboard near the site.
Firefighters worked to save cows after a truck carrying them overturned, killing 50 cows.(Glen E. Ellman/Fort Worth Fire Department)
5:44 PM on Jun 30, 2021 CDT
PETA will place a billboard in southwest Fort Worth to memorialize the lives of 50 cows killed when the truck carrying them overturned.
The billboard, which will be near the crash site at West Loop 820 at Team Ranch Road, will read “See the individual. Go Vegan”, the animal welfare organization announced Wednesday.
Published June 27, 2021 •
Updated on June 27, 2021 at 10:05 pm
Glen E. Ellman / Fort Worth Fire Department
Dozens of cattle are dead after a double-decker livestock trailer overturned in southwest Fort Worth Sunday afternoon, officials say.
The crash happened before 1 p.m. on the northbound side of Interstate Loop 820 at Team Ranch Road, which is just north of U.S. Highway 377, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department.
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The fire department said, a large majority of the nearly 80 head of cattle on the trailer died.
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