PETA Media Center > Recent News Releases : Naked and Wrapped in Cellophane, PETA Members in Des Moines Show That We're All Made of Flesh

Pro-Vegetarian Demonstration Mimics Meat Packages

For Immediate Release:
June 4, 2008

Contact:
Ashley Byrne 757-622-7382

Des Moines, Iowa - Lying nearly naked on large trays and covered with clear plastic in front of signs reading, "Meat Is Murder," PETA members will mimic typical meat packages on Thursday at Nollen Plaza in response to the 20th annual World Pork Expo, which will be happening nearby at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Other PETA members will distribute leaflets to passersby. The activists aim to demonstrate that all animals--not just humans--are made of flesh, blood, and bone; that humans and other animals have the same senses and range of emotions; and that eating meat is eating a corpse. The packages will contain oversized price stickers that warn, "Billions of animals are abused and violently killed because you eat meat. Get help! Visit GoVeg.com."

Date: Thursday, June 5
Time: 3 p.m.
Place: Nollen Plaza, 300 Locus St., Des Moines

On today's factory farms, cows are routinely branded, dehorned, and castrated without any painkillers. Many die of pneumonia, dehydration, or heat exhaustion from spending days at a time without food or water on extremely crowded trucks during transport to slaughterhouses. Slaughterhouse workers sometimes resort to strangling, beating, scalding, skinning, and dismembering conscious animals in order to keep production lines moving.

"We are challenging people to really think about what 'meat' is," says PETA Manager of Vegan Campaigns Lindsay Rajt. "Eating flesh means eating the corpse of a tortured animal who did not want to die. We're encouraging kind consumers to give vegetarianism a try."

For more information, please visit GoVeg.com.

« Previous Next »

Join Our
Activist Network

Forward to
a Friend

Back to Top