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Home > Media Center > News Releases > PETA’S ‘HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE’ CANADIAN TOUR COMES TO OTTAWA
Giant Graphic Display Shows How Today’s Victims Languish in Nazi-Style Concentration Camps For Immediate Release: Contact: Ottawa — PETA’s "Holocaust on Your Plate" display—which has visited more than 70 cities in the U.S. and 15 European nations, including Germany and the U.K., where it was banned—will come to Ottawa on Thursday. The display, which consists of eight 5.6-square-metre panels, each showing photos of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side by side with photos from Nazi death camps, graphically depicts the point made by Jewish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, "In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis." Date: Thursday, September 9 PETA wants to stimulate contemplation of how the victimization of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others characterized as "life unworthy of life" during the Holocaust parallels the way that modern society abuses and justifies the slaughter of animals. Just as the Nazis tried to "dehumanize" Jews by forcing them to live in filthy, crowded conditions, tearing children away from their mothers, and killing them in assembly-line fashion, animals on today’s factory farms are stripped of all that is enjoyable and natural to them and treated as nothing more than meat-, egg-, and milk-producing "machines." Hens are crammed on top of each other in small wire cages that do not afford them enough room even to lie down, and their beaks are burned off with a hot blade to keep them from pecking each other to compete for space. Pigs are kept in extremely narrow, barren, concrete-floored stalls and are castrated and have their tails cut off, both without any painkillers. "The very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible—that we can do anything we want to those we decide are ‘different’ or ‘inferior’—is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day," says the campaign’s creator, PETA’s Matt Prescott, members of whose family were murdered by the Nazis. "We are asking people to allow understanding into their hearts and compassion onto their tables by embracing a nonviolent, vegan diet that respects other forms of life." For more information about PETA’s "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign and to view the photo panels, please visit MassKilling.com.
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