Update: Bacon Bash Organizers Hit With Warning
For Immediate Release:
May 29, 2019
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
The Bandera Bacon Bash is an annual “wild hog catch” that has come under fire after PETA released video footage showing people chasing terrified, crying pigs—who ran face-first into metal fences—and dragging them by their legs. PETA alerted the Texas Animal Health Commission that the event’s organizers, Nick Barron and the Bandera Wranglers, likely violated state laws—and the agency has now issued them a warning for illegally keeping feral pigs without a permit, a violation that can carry criminal penalties.
“State officials were right to warn these animal abusers that they’ve broken the law,” says PETA Vice President of Evidence Analysis Daniel Paden. “PETA is urging Governor Greg Abbott to take decisive action and end this violent spectacle.”
PETA has also shared the upsetting video footage with an adviser to Abbott and enlisted actor Woody Harrelson to send a letter urging the governor to shut down “wild hog catch” events. Nearly 63,000 people have joined Harrelson in calling on the governor to take action.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. More information about our work for animals is available at PETA.org.
