‘Get Out Now!’ Massive PETA Message Advises Local Pig Meat Profiteers that Change is a-Comin’
For Immediate Release:
March 13, 2025
Contact:
Sara Groves 202-483-7382
Kansas is home to Seaboard Foods, the country’s third-largest pork producer, and PETA is going to get the company’s attention, erecting a sky-high message in Kansas City, urging pig farmers to learn from former tobacco farmers’ experience and abandon their ill-fated industry before it’s too late. PETA points out that the handwriting is on the slaughterhouse wall: In recent years, Smithfield has closed thirty-five pig farms in neighboring Missouri, Tyson Foods shuttered its meat processing plant in Emporia, and the vile pig meat industry overall is beset with increasing costs, and nosediving sales—all while interest in vegan eating is booming, and soy sausages are selling fast.
“Consumers are waking up to smell the bacon but then realizing that the smell comes from filthy factory farms,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Pig farmers are losing ground and wasting time trying to bail out a sinking ship while PETA is busy handing out vegan starter kits to anyone who opposes cruelty to animals, or basically to everyone who eats.”
PETA points out that pigs are soothed by music, love playing ball, sleep in “pig piles,” and even enjoy getting massages, yet Seaboard currently torments and kills more than six million of these animals each year. In the meat industry, workers chop off piglets’ tails, clip their teeth with pliers, and castrate the males—and the animals endure intense confinement before their throats are slashed in slaughterhouses. Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year and reduces their own disease risk and carbon footprint.
PETA’s billboard is located at the intersection of Central Avenue and S. Coy Street, Kansas City.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help those looking to make the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
