‘Pandemic Pig’ in a Convertible to Lead Protest of Triumph Foods Slaughterhouse
With Fatal Viruses Linked to the Meat Industry, a Caravan of PETA Protesters Will Urge Meat Producer to Sell Only Vegan Pork
For Immediate Release:
May 8, 2020
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
On Saturday, PETA’s “Pandemic Pig” will lead a group of PETA supporters in a driving protest of the Triumph Foods pig slaughterhouse on the Stockyards Expressway, where over 400 workers have tested positive for COVID-19—resulting in one worker’s death. The protesters will urge the slaughterhouse to close down for everyone’s sake—or reopen on the condition that it produce exclusively vegan pork.
When: Saturday, May 9, 12 noon
Where: Outside the Triumph Foods slaughterhouse, 5302 Stockyards Expy. (at the intersection with Illinois Avenue), St. Joseph
“By providing breeding grounds for swine flu, SARS, avian flu, and other diseases, filthy slaughterhouses and meat markets threaten the health of every human on the planet,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is urging Triumph Foods to protect everyone by shutting down or reinventing itself as a producer of healthy and 100% humane vegan pork.”
Swine flu began on a U.S. factory farm, and the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese “wet market,” where live and dead animals were sold for human consumption. Health authorities confirm that influenza viruses and coronaviruses are zoonotic (transmissible from other animals to humans). Previous influenza viruses originated in pigs and chickens.
Vegan meat is already produced by Smithfield’s Pure Farmland, Tyson’s Raised & Rooted, Maple Leaf’s Field Roast, and other major meat companies, and it’s becoming more and more popular as people eat vegan because of health, environmental, and animal welfare concerns.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
