Pro-Vegetarian Demonstration Mimics Meat Packages

For Immediate Release:
March 30, 2007

Contact:
Mike Brazell 757-622-7382

Omaha, Neb. -- Lying nearly naked on large trays and covered with clear plastic in front of signs reading, "Meat Is Murder," members of PETA will mimic typical packages of meat this Sunday. Other PETA members will distribute leaflets to passersby, and one activist will wear a body screen TV showing shocking video footage of factory-farming abuse. The activists aim to demonstrate that all animals—including humans—are made of flesh, blood, and bone; that we have the same senses and range of emotions; and that eating meat is literally 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: Sunday, April 1
Time: 2 p.m.
Place: Intersection of E. Howard and 13th streets, Omaha

In 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 during transport in extremely crowded trucks. 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 Vice President Bruce Friedrich. "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."

Your attendance is invited. For more information, please visit GoVeg.com.