Meat Stinks! Foul Stench From Feedlots Prompts PETA Messages Across Fresno County

For Immediate Release:
October 13, 2025

Contact:
Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382

The putrid odors emanating from local feedlots—feces-filled holding pens where animals spend their final, miserable days before slaughter—may have everyone holding their noses, but PETA has a solution: Go Vegan! PETA points out that fruit and vegetable crops don’t produce the same nauseating stench as feedlots (and are better for animals, our health, and the environment)—so it has strategically placed vegan appeals at gas stations across Coalinga and Kingsburg.

“The only thing more horrific than the smell of toxic waste flowing from feedlots is the nightmare millions of animals experience at slaughterhouses every day,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges everyone to clean up their communities, and their consciences, by going vegan.”  

Pigs are soothed by music, and cows mourn when a loved one dies or when they’re separated from each other. But in the meat industry, they’re subjected to tail docking, castration, and other mutilations with no pain relief. Eventually, they’re forced onto transport trucks for a terrifying journey to a slaughterhouse, where workers slit their throats—often while they’re still conscious. Feedlots also emit toxic airborne chemicals that, according to a report by the California State Senate, can cause “inflammatory, immune, and neurochemical problems in humans.”

In contrast, people who go vegan slash their risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity; dramatically shrink their food-related carbon footprint; and save nearly 200 animals’ lives every year.

PETA’s ads can be seen at gas stations in Fresno County, including:

• Shell: 24553 W Dorris Ave in Coalinga
• ARCO: 400 Sierra St in Kingsburg
• Chevron: 800 Sierra St in Kingsburg
• Shell: 1499 Simpson St in Kingsburg
• Sinclair: 825 Sierra St in Kingsburg

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free vegan starter kits to anyone looking to make the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.