PETA Joins Nebraska's Abortion Debate

Billboard Urges Pro-Life Meat-Eaters to Save All Living Beings

For Immediate Release:
April 15, 2010

Contact:
Michael Lyubinsky  757-622-7382  

Lincoln, Neb. -- In the wake of reports that Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed two bills broadening the restrictions on abortion, PETA is weighing in on the issue ... kind of. The group plans to erect a billboard in Lincoln that reads, "Pro-Life? Go Vegan." Click here to see the billboard.

"People who support slaughterhouses every time they lift a fork cannot call themselves 'pro-life,'" says PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich. "We're asking pro-life advocates to keep every heart beating by going vegan."

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.

For more information, please visit PETA.org.