‘Stop Betraying Animals!’ Humane Society of the U.S. Gala to Face PETA Protest Over Factory Farming Promotions

For Immediate Release:
October 31, 2024

Contact:
Sara Groves 202-483-7382

Why is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) endorsing factory farms? That’s what dozens of PETA supporters will demand to know at the HSUS’s fundraising gala on Friday. As the organization’s leaders arrive for the affair, they’ll hear PETA’s calls to cut ties with a humane-washing scheme that has slapped “animal welfare certified” labels on meat, eggs, and dairy from facilities that were caught, for example, leaving pigs to suffer from baseball-size rectal prolapses. 

“Touting ‘animal welfare standards’ while packing tens of thousands of animals into filthy sheds and then trucking them off to slaughter is a betrayal of animals and kind consumers,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on the Humane Society of the United States to live up to its name and stop being apologists for animal abusers and factory farms by dropping its support of this bogus humane-washing scam now.”

Where: Cipriani 42^nd Street, 110 E. 42^nd St., New York

When: Friday, November 1, 5:30 p.m.

Why: Leaders from the HSUS “proudly support” and sit on the board of directors of Global Animal Partnership, which allows factory farmers to market meat, eggs, and dairy as “animal welfare certified,” even though PETA documented widespread, systemic cruelty at all 12 “certified” farms it investigated—including the notorious Plainville Farms. PETA points out that this scam not only dupes kind consumers but also runs counter to the HSUS’s own mission to “end suffering for all animals.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.

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