Giveaway Is A part of PETA’s Combat for Meals Justice
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November 12, 2021
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Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Brooklyn, N.Y. – It’s a vegan turkey free-for-all! On Tuesday, PETA supporters will be part of Stewart Mitchell (aka “Vigilante Vegan”) to distribute lots of of free Tofurky roasts to passersby at Brooklyn Junction together with an attraction for them to provide turkeys a break this vacation by celebrating “ThanksVegan.” Recipients may also be invited to hitch PETA’s new food-justice campaign, which calls on the federal government to redirect meat, egg, and dairy trade subsidies towards incentives for grocers in meals deserts to inventory recent fruits, greens, and different wholesome, humane vegan meals.
When: Tuesday, November 16, 12 midday
The place: Brooklyn Junction (on the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand avenues), Brooklyn
“When individuals notice that turkeys love their households, really feel ache and worry, and worth their lives, they’re keen to place a vegan turkey on the desk,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is asking on native, state, and authorities businesses to cease pushing the meat trade’s agenda and to supply underserved communities with wholesome vegan meals.”
Stocking shops in meals deserts with wholesome vegan meals would assist weak communities cut back their charges of most cancers, coronary heart illness, and diabetes and assist the surroundings, on condition that animal agriculture is answerable for almost one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions. And furnishing vacation tables with scrumptious vegan roasts would assist forestall turkeys from being dragged by an electrified bathtub in slaughterhouses earlier than their throats are slit they usually’re dumped into scalding-hot defeathering tanks.
The U.S. authorities spends about $38 billion in tax cash annually to subsidize the meat, egg, and dairy industries—the overwhelming majority of which fits to massive firms, not American farmers—whereas solely about $17 million is used to subsidize the fruit and vegetable industries. PETA launched the food-justice marketing campaign in Atlanta with Pinky Cole of Slutty Vegan, and extra occasions are deliberate for Baltimore and Los Angeles.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals should not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
