PETA to Blast Beach Crowds With Animal Rights Message
Group Will Point to Pandemic Culprits: Filthy Farms and Meat Markets
For Immediate Release:
April 24, 2020
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic—and against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for social distancing—the Englewood and Port Charlotte beaches are set to reopen, prompting PETA to fly a banner over the area on Monday that proclaims, “Meat Markets Breed Killer Diseases: Go Veg. PETA.”
When: Monday, April 27, 1–3 p.m.
Where: The plane will fly over Englewood and Port Charlotte beaches.
“Slowing down the COVID-19 pandemic through social distancing is key now—but we can prevent pandemics in the first place by ending the demand for animal flesh,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Filthy factory farms and squalid meat markets are breeding grounds for disease, which is why PETA is urging people to turn away from meat, milk, and eggs.”
COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China, in a live-animal market, where live and dead animals are sold for human consumption. Health authorities confirm that influenza viruses and coronaviruses are zoonotic (transmissible from other animals to humans)—and farms and markets crammed full of stressed animals are breeding grounds for such deadly maladies. Previous influenza viruses have originated in chickens and pigs.
Photos will be available after the event. PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
