For immediate release:
August 25, 2021
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Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Hansheville, Alabama. – In recognition – and out of respect for – the up to 200,000 fish killed after a local Tyson Foods facility dumped thousands of gallons of sewage that polluted the Black Warrior River’s Mulberry Fork (and sparked a $ 3 million settlement). announced earlier this month), PETA will place a giant billboard in the area that will indicate who is rightfully responsible for their deaths: everyone who has not yet gone vegan.
“If everyone were vegan, this fish would not have been poisoned by the waste from Tyson’s factory farm, and many others would not have been gutted alive on fishing boats,” says PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman. “The PETA billboard encourages everyone to show compassion for aquatic animals and animals in industrial farms without paying attention to them.”
While the meat, egg and dairy industries are responsible for the suffering and violent deaths of billions of farm animals, fish and other animals are also victims of these harmful industries. Livestock is a major contributor to ocean dead zones, water pollution, species extinction and habitat destruction, and the United Nations says a global vegan diet is imperative to combat the worst effects of the climate crisis.
PETA – whose motto, in part, is that “the animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes specisism, a worldview based on human superiority, notes that many varieties of artificial fish are available today, such as “Golden Fillet no fish no fish ”from Gardein, plant-based. Tuna from Good Catch, New Plant-Based Shrimp from New Wave Foods and Sophie’s Kitchen Vegan Crab Cakes. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…