PETA AU Global Issue 3 2020

Not Even a Pandemic Can Stop PETA

While the novel coronavirus pandemic brought nearly everything to a standstill – including, thankfully, many horse races, bullfights, rodeos, and dog shows as well as Canada’s annual seal slaughter – PETA made sure that the world continued to hear about the plight of animals. Turning social distancing into an opportunity to go the distance, PETA’s COVID-19 web posts received more than 1 million views.

THE SKINS CONNECTION

FROM SUPERMARKETS TO SLAUGHTERHOUSES, PETA WAS THERE!

PETA FIELDWORKERS ON THE FRONT LINES PETA staffers kept right on caring for neglected animals in Virginia and North Carolina, sterilizing more than 1,300 cats and dogs in PETA’s mobile clinics and delivering hundreds of bags of free food for companion animals in one month alone. In the Philippines, PETA Asia fed hundreds of homeless dogs and cats daily during the lockdown, and donated 2.5 tons of food.

Noting that the trade in exotic animal skins could cause the next pandemic, PETA urged Louisiana’s governor to close the state’s alligator farms, where concrete enclosures jam-packed with alligators in fetid, murky water are breeding grounds

PETA’s dancing block of tofu, its “Corona Chicken,” and its “Pandemic Pig” added something fresh to grocery shoppers’ carts: free vegan starter kits. In a Philadelphia suburb, a “bull” led a PETA parade of cars from a busy Aldi parking lot to a JBS slaughterhouse, which had closed because of the pandemic, to make the connection between the dead animals in people’s carts and deadly diseases. When COVID-19 infected workers at slaughterhouses in the US and

When military orders forced people who normally feed Romania’s homeless animals to stay indoors, PETA Germany came to the rescue with food and water for the animals. In India, stray animals were starving as the police beat anyone who ventured out of a stopped train to feed them. Animal Rahat – a PETA - supported charity in India and an essential service – patrolled the streets daily, feeding hungry cats, dogs, donkeys, bullocks, and

for salmonella, E. coli , and other pathogens.

When mink farm workers in the Netherlands contracted COVID-19 from the animals confined to cramped, filthy cages, PETA Netherlands members in hazmat suits called on the Dutch government to move up its 2024 fur-farm ban.

Canada, PETA protesters – including

“grim reapers” and one hardy soul who biked to a protest through the snow! – urged them

ANIMALS ARE NOT EXPENDABLE Background: © iStock.com/FrankRamspott • Virus: © iStock.com/Vectorios2016 • Marines: “The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.” Socially distanced parades of honking PETA protesters cruised by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the homes of NIH Director Francis Collins and NIH-funded experimenters Shreesh Mysore and Elisabeth Murray to protest their pointless and cruel experiments on owls and monkeys. Although the novel coronavirus manifests differently in monkeys, experimenters picked up the scent of money and rushed to get grants to infect them, even as laboratories were giving away or euthanizing other animals deemed “inessential.” Renewing its call for the US Department of Defense to stop killing animals during the annual Cobra Gold military exercise, PETA emphasized that the activities during the “training” – including decapitating cobras and drinking their blood – not only are cruel but also put Marines and the public at risk of contracting deadly diseases.

to shut down permanently, for the sake of both animals and humans.

other animals whose food sources had disappeared.

You can spread the word about bean curd – while slowing the spread of disease – with PETA’s limited-edition face masks. Grab them

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while they last at PETA.org/Store .

Mink: © We Animals Media • Toilet paper: © iStock.com/SanneBerg • Face mask: © iStock.com/shapecharge • Pandemic puzzle: © iStock.com/atakan • Puzzle box: © iStock.com/BlackJack3D • Chicken ad: © iStock.com/martin-dm

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LOOKING UP FROM DOWN UNDER PETA Australia’s plane banner circling overhead encouraged people waiting to cast their ballots in Queensland’s council elections to “vote vegan.” Puzzle-loving Prime Minister Scott Morrison also got a surprise from PETA Australia: a custom jigsaw puzzle asking him to put

AD IT UP Lockdown got you down? PETA Asia billboards placed (for free) in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore encouraged people to look on

the pieces together and stop future pandemics by going vegan. Get your puzzle at PETA.org/Store .

the bright side: Staying at home gives you the opportunity to spend more quality time with your animal companions!

After the media issued dire warnings about a so called “food shortage” resulting from slaughterhouse shutdowns, PETA reminded consumers that meat is non-essential – it’s the flesh of a sentient being, not “food” – in full-page ads in The New York Times , The Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , and other major newspapers.

Take Action Now Help prevent the next pandemic: Share vegan starter kits like there’s no tomorrow – or there may not be. Visit PETA.org.au/VSK to order your free copy and one for a friend! PETA is grateful to everyone who came out during the lockdown to make a difference for animals. Find out about actions near you by joining PETA’s Action Team at PETA.org.au/ActionTeam .

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