'Cow' and 'Pig' to Crash Meat Week With Vegan Meatball Giveaway

Eating Flesh Is a Losing Proposition—for Animals and Humans, Says PETA 

For Immediate Release:
January 31, 2013

Contact:
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382

Washington -- Two PETA members—one dressed like a pig and the other like a cow—will dish out free vegan meatballs smack in the middle of Meat Week's barbecue food truck competition. PETA's point? That underneath all the smoke is the flesh of an abused animal who wanted nothing more than to live and that eating animal flesh makes humans sick and fat.

When:   Friday, February 1, 5:30 p.m.

Where:  Outside the LivingSocial offices, at the intersection of D and Eighth streets N.W., Washington

"Vegan meatballs and chicken wings and other faux meats have all the flavor but none of the cholesterol and animal suffering found in every speck of pork, chicken, and beef," says PETA Associate Director of Campaigns Lindsay Rajt. "The last thing that unhealthy and overweight Americans need on their plates is more meat."

On today's factory farms, chickens and turkeys have their throats cut while they're still conscious, piglets are castrated and have their tails cut off without being given any painkillers, and cows are hung upside down and are often skinned while they're still able to feel pain. On the decks of fishing boats, fish suffocate or are cut open while they're still alive. Also, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, strokes, and cancer have been conclusively linked to the consumption of meat and other animal-derived products.

For more information, please visit PETA.org.