PETA Pig Mascot Will Help Give Away Vegan Hams Outside Honey Baked Ham

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

Los Angeles – A pig mascot in a Santa hat will lead PETA members as they hand out free vegan hams tomorrow outside Honey Baked Ham to encourage shoppers to make kinder choices this holiday season.

When:    Friday, December 18, 12 noon

Where:    547 N. Glendale Ave., Glendale

“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 or hands.”

The meat industry is a horror for pigs: Workers chop their tails off, cut their teeth with pliers, and castrate the males—all without painkillers. During transit in the winter, pigs’ sensitive skin sometimes freezes to the sides of the metal trucks, and in the summer, the animals swelter. At slaughterhouses, pigs are hung upside down and bled to death, often while they’re still conscious. All these atrocities have been well documented by undercover investigations and government reports.

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 TwitterFacebook, or Instagram.

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