PETA Calls On Tippecanoe County Jailer to Take Meat Off the Menu for Bloodthirsty Prisoner

Request Follows Man's Threat to Devour Police Officers and Their Dogs

For Immediate Release:
January 17, 2012

Contact:
Shakira Croce 202-483-7382 

Frankfort, Ind. -- Today, PETA sent a letter to Denise Saxton, captain of the Tippecanoe County Jail, urging her to switch Paul Brock to 100 percent violence-free vegetarian meals immediately. After being apprehended for allegedly stealing a car, Brock reportedly threatened to hunt down and eat the arresting officers, their families, and the police dogs who were present—one of whom Brock kicked in the head. In the letter, PETA points out that a vegetarian diet devoid of animal products is the dose of nonviolence that Brock obviously needs.

"If the reports are true, this man has such an unhealthy obsession with flesh that indulging his flesh habit by feeding him animals who were violently killed seems wholly inappropriate," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "We're asking Ms. Saxton to place Brock on a humane, cost-effective vegetarian meal plan, which will save lives and public funds."

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PETA's letter to Tippecanoe County Jail Captain Denise Saxton follows.

January 17, 2012

Denise Saxton, Captain
Tippecanoe County Jail

Dear Captain Saxton:

On behalf of PETA and our more than 3 million members and supporters, including thousands across Indiana, I am writing to suggest that you help wean detainee Paul Brock off his penchant for flesh—including that of humans and police dogs—by providing him with exclusively vegetarian meals while he is in your custody.

By threatening to eat police officers, their families, and police dogs and by kicking one of the dogs, Brock has shown that he needs your help. Feeding Brock vegetarian foods may help quell his thirst for blood and so help protect the community. In fact, a meat-free meal plan could benefit all your other inmates too. Some prison operators—including those at Alabama's highest-security prison, William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility—have found that switching inmates to vegetarian meals can be a successful part of a violence-reduction program.

Every vegetarian meal served at your facility would also directly help reduce violence toward animals. In today's industrialized meat and dairy industries, chickens and turkeys have their throats cut while they're still conscious, piglets have their tails and testicles cut off without being given any painkillers, fish are suffocated or cut open while they're still alive on the decks of fishing boats, and calves are taken away from their mothers within hours of birth.

Vegetarian meals are healthy, cost-efficient, and easy to prepare. We would be happy to help you design the perfect meatless meal plan for Brock—or for the entire jail.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Lindsay Rajt
Associate Director of Campaigns