PETA protesters will mimic meat on Monday

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Here’s the press release:

Asheville, N.C. – Lying nearly naked on large trays and covered with clear plastic in front of signs reading, “Meat Is Murder,” PETA members will mimic typical meat packages on Monday to kick off World Vegetarian Week. Other PETA members will distribute leaflets to passersby. The activists aim to demonstrate that all animals–not just humans–are made of flesh, blood, and bone; that humans and other animals have the same senses and range of emotions; and that eating meat is eating a corpse. The packages will contain oversized price stickers that warn, “Billions of animals are abused and violently killed because you eat meat. Get help! Visit GoVeg.com.”

Date: Monday, May 19
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: In front of Vance Monument at Pack Square (at the intersection of Pack Square and Patton Avenue), Asheville

In today’s factory farms, cows are routinely branded, dehorned, and castrated without any painkillers. Many die from pneumonia, dehydration, or heat exhaustion from spending days at a time without food or water on extremely crowded trucks during transport to slaughterhouses. Slaughterhouse workers sometimes resort to strangling, beating, scalding, skinning, and dismembering conscious animals to keep production lines moving.

“We are challenging people to really think about what ‘meat’ is,” says PETA Manager of Vegan Campaigns Lindsay Rajt.