PETA’s Santa Will Help Give Away Vegan Hams Outside Butcher Shop
Group Will Ask Shoppers to Bring Comfort and Joy to Animals by Keeping Them off Their Plate
For Immediate Release:
December 17, 2020
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Santa will lead a jolly pack of PETA members as they hand out free vegan hams and Tofurky roasts tomorrow outside Wellington Butchery to encourage shoppers to make kinder choices this holiday season.
When: Friday, December 18, 2 p.m.
Where: 1333 Wellington St. W. (near the intersection with Ross Avenue), Ottawa
“PETA is ready with tips, recipes, and more to help people celebrate a humane holiday by choosing a vegan feast this year,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “When it comes to having feelings, loving our families, and valuing our lives, we’re all the same, whether we have hooves, wings, or hands.”
In today’s meat industry, pigs’ tails are chopped off, their teeth are cut with pliers, and males are castrated—all without pain relief. At the slaughterhouse, they’re hung upside down and bled to death. Turkeys killed for food are dragged through an electrified bath, and they’re often still conscious when their throats are slit and they’re dumped into scalding-hot defeathering tanks.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
