For Immediate Release:
October 8, 2021
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Abbotsford, British Columbia â Just a stoneâs throw away from a massive Lilydale turkey slaughterhouse, PETA is offering holiday travellers some ThanksVegan food for thought by covering local buses and the airport with the images of turkeys proclaiming, âIâm ME, Not MEATââand to help everyone enjoy a bird-friendly holiday, the group will also donate savory Tofurky roasts to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
âWhen people realize that turkeys love their families, feel pain and fear, and value their lives, theyâre eager to put a Tofurky on the table,â says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. âPETA offers recipes, shopping tips, and more so that everyone can enjoy a delicious ThanksVegan meal that leaves gentle birds in peace.â
Turkeys can live up to 10 years, but those raised for food are normally slaughtered when theyâre between 12 and 26 weeks oldâand millions are killed each year for Thanksgiving in Canada alone. The young birds are hung by their feet from metal shackles and dragged through an electrified bath, and theyâre often still conscious when their throats are slit and theyâre dumped into scalding-hot defeathering tanks.
Meat-free meals are already on many Canadiansâ minds, as the number of âveganâ online searches in Canada grew by 113% from 2016 to 2020. This year, Sobeys, Save-On-Foods, Buy-Low Foods, IGA, and other major grocery chains are teaming up with PETA to showcase their ready-to-roast vegan turkeys and other vegan holiday fare. The Very Good Butchers, founded in Victoria and with products available from coast to coast, will also spread the #ThanksVegan word on social media, and people across the country can take advantage of PETAâs ultimate Canadian ThanksVegan guide.
PETAâwhose motto reads, in part, that âanimals are not ours to eatââopposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visitâŻPETA.orgâŻor follow the group onâŻTwitter, Facebook, orâŻInstagram.
Source: Peta.org