Cock-a-doodle-doo! PETA’s Giant Naked Men—and a Chicken—Take on Pride
For Immediate Release:
June 2, 2025
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Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382
Just in time for the Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival, which will welcome over 700,000 people on June 13, two giant men and a chicken have been erected in Columbus near several meaty eateries, with a pointed warning that eating meat and dairy clogs diners’ arteries and can lead to shame, not pride, in the bedroom.
“Passion in the bedroom starts with compassion on our plates,” says PETA Director of Press Outreach Moira Colley. “PETA reminds everyone that it’s not hard to be kind, and we can all rise to the occasion by going vegan.”
In nature, chickens enjoy taking dust baths, roosting in trees, and lying in the sun—experiences they are cruelly denied in the meat and egg industries.
But each person who goes vegan saves nearly 200 animals every year from daily suffering and a terrifying death. Not to mention, low-fat vegan meals have been shown to address the physical causes involved in the vast majority of impotence cases, including high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, prostate cancer or inflammation, and hormonal imbalances.
PETA’s back-to-back billboards are located at 1239 W. 5th Ave., a short drive from Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Buffalo Boneless Wings, and other meat- and dairy-serving eateries.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and points out that Every Animal Is Someone. For more information and to get a free vegan starter kit, visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
