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October 28, 2021
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New York – Because the World Sequence turns right into a pitching duel, PETA is pitching a proposal to the baseball world: Strike out the phrase “bullpen,” which references the holding space the place terrified bulls are stored earlier than slaughter, in favor of a extra fashionable, animal-friendly time period. PETA’s suggestion? The arm barn!
“Phrases matter, and baseball ‘bullpens’ devalue gifted gamers and mock the distress of delicate animals,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA encourages Main League Baseball coaches, announcers, gamers, and followers to changeup their language and embrace the ‘arm barn’ as an alternative.”
PETA notes that cows are hung the other way up and their throats are slit within the meat trade, whereas in rodeos, light bulls are tormented into kicking and bucking by being electro-shocked or prodded—all are sometimes held in a “bullpen” whereas they await their merciless destiny.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals are usually not ours to abuse in any approach”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
