Update: ‘Stop Eating Meat’ Ad Now up in Jacksonville Following Animal Deaths

Hurricane Florence Has Gone, and Now, PETA’s Billboard Has Blown Into Town, Asking Meat-Eaters to Take Responsibility, Go Vegan, and Save Lives—Including Their Own

For Immediate Release:
November 5, 2018

Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382

In response to the deaths of more than 5,500 pigs and 4.1 million chickens and turkeys during Hurricane Florence—all of whom slowly drowned while trapped inside massive sheds—PETA has placed a billboard in Jacksonville linking the drownings to meat-eaters, who feed the industry and therefore should accept responsibility for the animals’ deaths. The billboard features a photograph of two pigs swimming for their lives in the storm’s aftermath and proclaims, “Stop Eating Meat! They Die for a Cruel and Dirty Habit.”

The ad is located at 4416 Roosevelt Blvd. between San Juan and Wabash avenues, near a Publix, a KFC, and a LongHorn Steakhouse.

“If this message of compassion inspires just one person to leave pigs and chickens off their plate, then they will not add to the millions of animals who die horrifically, whether in a slaughterhouse or during hurricanes and floods,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA’s billboard urges meat-eaters to change their ways before the next wave of animals dies slowly and painfully in another natural disaster.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—notes that in addition to causing the animals’ preventable deaths, Hurricane Florence floodwaters breached the pork industry’s massive manure lagoons, potentially contaminating the region’s water supplies with tens of millions of gallons of filth.

In addition to sparing the lives of nearly 200 animals each per year, people who go vegan reduce their risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, and numerous other ailments.

PETA offers free vegan starter kits on its website that are full of recipes, tips, and more. For more information, please visit PETA.org.