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February 15, 2022
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Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Portland, Maine – As the state’s lobster industry faces new regulations designed to protect whales — from lifeline bans to weak mooring orders — PETA is making headlines throughout Portland International Jetport with new appeal reminds visitors that whole fishing gear kills 300,000 whales and dolphins annually, and suggests a solution: “Don’t eat fish.”
In the fishing industry, whales are even callously called “catchers”, a term for animals that have no purpose. catch or become entangled in fishing gear and then discarded or simply dead. PETA notes that Death by fishing gear is one of the biggest threats for the survival of many of the world’s 86 species of crustaceans—Including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale in Maine, over 85% some of them have been entangled in fishing gear at least once – and eating fish contributes to the destruction of ocean ecosystems.
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said: “Going vegan not only saves fish and lobsters from suffering from fleeting taste, but also protects the majestic whales that cross New England waters,” said PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said. “PETA urges people to honor aquatic animals, large and small, by getting them off their plates.”
More fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined. Fish feel pain like mammals, have long memories and sing underwater – but they’re stabbed, crushed, suffocated, dropped into a pot of boiling water, or dissected and gutted, it all makes sense. awake.
PETA – whose motto is to write, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and who opposes ethnocentrism, a human worldview – supremacy – points out that many fish imitation options availableincluding Gardein’s f’sh filetsGood Catch’s Plant-based tunaNew Wave Foods’ vegetable shrimpand Sophie’s Kitchen’s Vegan crab cakes.
PETA advertising is placed throughout the airport, including in baggage claim, ticketing and lounge areas.
For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebookor Instagram.
