Giant Gun-Toting Chicken Warns Casper That ‘Bird Flu Kills’
For Immediate Release:
August 5, 2024
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Sara Groves 202-483-7382
Following the news that bird flu has infected cows used for dairy in Wyoming, PETA placed a sky-high warning in Casper—featuring a chicken armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle—reminding everyone that if the saturated fat and cholesterol in meat doesn’t kill them, bird flu might. Wyoming is the 12th state where cows have been ainfected with bird flu, which has already been transmitted to humans multiple times—including six cases reported in Colorado this month alone. More than half the people with confirmed infections of the H5N1 strain of bird flu have died, and the World Health Organization has called the risk of the virus spreading to humans “an enormous concern.”
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“Eating meat, eggs, and dairy from animals who are crammed into filthy sheds and onto feedlots by the millions is disgusting, and these farms are a breeding ground for the next pandemic,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges everyone to please go vegan—before it’s too late.”
PETA points out that the majority of diseases that have caused the pandemic or epidemics in recent years originated in animals before being transmitted to humans, including COVID-19, AIDS, avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Zika. The group offers a free vegan starter kit on its website for everyone ready to make the switch.
PETA’s billboard is located off I-25 and U.S. Highway 87, next to Troopers Bingo. Please see the Google Maps link here.
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. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
