After hearing from PETA and thousands of our members and supporters, the Apache Rattlesnake Festival in Oklahoma dropped a vendor who sews snakes’ mouths shut—a crude procedure that leaves the animals unable to hydrate or take in any form of nourishment for days—so that people can pose with them for “scary” photo ops.
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”
— Ingrid Newkirk, PETA Founder and co-author of Animalkind
