Stacy Leone (left), Zoey Welsh (middle) and Julie Clegg hold signs in support of banning gas chambers in Utah animal shelters. Activists protested at Orem City Hall on Tuesday, June 15 and then made statements at the Orem City Council meeting. (Emma Gadeski)
Utah animal rights advocates protested animal shelter gas chamber use on June 15 at Orem City Hall and presented a 50-foot-long petition to city council members.
Protestors stood at the corner of
East Center Street and South State Street
bearing signs that read, “Our Pets Deserve Better Than a Cruel Gas Chamber Death” and “Orem: Ban Gas Chamber Killing at Animal Shelter.”
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A handful of demonstrators were on scene at the American West Heritage Center on Thursday to protest Baby Animal Days and Yellowstone Bear World after the event garnered attention from the Utah Animal Rights Coalition and PETA.
Heritage Center management seemed to give a sigh of relief when the protests, and the event, went off without a hitch after receiving three weeksâ worth of email correspondence â nearly 60,000 emails by PETAâs count â from all over the United States.
âAt first, it was a little bit unnerving for our staff,â said Mic Bowen, the executive director of the Heritage Center, explaining many of the staff members are volunteers, âbut after a while we realized ⦠itâs OK, this is just kind of the nature of these kinds of campaigns.â