‘Don’t Kill Love’: PETA’s Pig Plea to Hit Bacon Fest

For Immediate Release:
November 3, 2022

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Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382

A pair of piglets will drive home a mobile message that will circle the PA Bacon Fest on Saturday, urging attendees to have a heart and refrain from destroying animal families and sentencing sensitive pigs to miserable lives on factory farms and a violent end in a slaughterhouse for nothing more than a fleeting taste. The mobile message is PETA’s and comes as a reported 49% of Americans express an interest in eating more vegan foods.

“Pigs are thinking, feeling individuals who are afraid to die and scream mightily when their throats are slit,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA encourages everyone to enjoy vegan foods that save lives, including—given the fat and cholesterol in meat—our own!”

Nearly all of the 121 million pigs killed for bacon and other pork products each year in the U.S. are confined to filthy enclosures so small that they can barely turn around. Workers chop off piglets’ tails, cut their teeth with pliers, and castrate the males—all without pain relief. At the slaughterhouse, workers hang pigs upside down, sometimes while they’re still conscious, and bleed them to death. By going vegan, each person can spare nearly 200 animals every year; reduce their own risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity; and dramatically shrink their carbon footprint.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—notes that many delicious pig-friendly options, such as Sweet Earth’s Benevolent Bacon, Tofurky’s Ham Style Roast, and Gardein’s Plant-Based Breakfast Saus’ge, are available today.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.