Get Loud for Vegan Eating: The Home Team’s Brian Butcher Stars in New peta2 Video

For Immediate Release:
October 8, 2025

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Before kicking off a nearly sold-out nationwide tour in November, The Home Team’s lead vocalist, Brian Butcher, is singing the praises of plant-powered eating in a new video for peta2—PETA’s youth division—that encourages everyone to show compassion to all animals by leaving them off their plates. In the spot, the frontman for the Seattle-based heavy pop band shares how his wife inspired him to ditch meat, eggs, and dairy, and how he quickly discovered that vegan eating is “so much easier” than he ever thought.

“I started to wonder why I was eating meat in the first place and started to just feel guilty every time I’d eat meat,” Butcher says. “I was like, ‘Then why am I doing it?’”

For those who are curious about vegan food, Butcher recommends trying some delicious dishes from top-notch animal-friendly eateries—which are available from coast to coast and easy to find through the HappyCow app.

“One thing I would say for fans if they’re trying to go more plant-based: Go to highly rated vegan restaurants because they will probably blow your mind,” Butcher says. “Find the highly rated vegan restaurants and go and just see what vegan food is capable of, because you will be very surprised.”

Cows develop friendships over time, chickens form complex social structures, and pigs recognize their own names. Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year from daily suffering and a terrifying death. peta2—which will promote animal advocacy to audiences during The Home Team’s upcoming fall tour—offers a free Guide to Going Vegan to help those looking to make the switch.

Brian Butcher joins a long list of musicians—including Davey Havok, Travis Barker, RZA, Diva Bleach, Pierce the Veil, Weezer, and Rise Against—who’ve teamed up with peta2 to promote kindness to animals.

peta2—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers young people positive, empowering actions to help animals. For more information, please visit peta2.com or follow peta2 on TikTok or Instagram.