‘I’m ME, Not MEAT’ Billboard Aims to Honor Pigs Killed in Truck Crash
PETA Memorial Would Encourage Everyone to Keep Animals out of Transport Trucks by Going Vegan
For Immediate Release:
May 30, 2018
Contact:
Audrey Shircliff 202-483-7382
In honor of the pigs who died when a truck carrying them overturned on Highway 36 near the intersection with Highway 69 in Cameron on May 24, PETA plans to place a billboard near the crash site showing a pig’s face next to the words “I’m ME, Not MEAT. See the Individual. Go Vegan.“
“An untold number of sensitive pigs died in this wreck, and those who survived were rounded up and presumably shipped off to be strung upside down and slaughtered,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA hopes to pay tribute to their too-short lives with a billboard urging motorists to prevent future suffering by keeping pigs and all other animals off their plates.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—notes that before pigs are packed together and transported in all weather extremes to slaughterhouses, mother pigs are squeezed into narrow metal stalls barely larger than their bodies and are kept almost constantly pregnant or nursing. Pigs’ tails are chopped off, their teeth are cut with pliers, and males are castrated—all without any painkillers. At the slaughterhouse, they’re hung upside down and bled to death, often while still conscious.
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