
For Immediate Release:
March 15, 2023
Contact:
Robin Goist 202-483-7382
Kansas City â Ahead of St. Patrickâs Day, a sky-high green cow from PETA has just gone up across the street from the T-Mobile Centerâabove McFaddenâs Sports Saloon, Shark Bar, and KC Live! (all of which are hosting St. Patrickâs Day events)âsuggesting that cows should be kissed, not killed, to help avert the worst effects of the climate catastrophe.
âCows are gentle animals who would much prefer a kiss over the terror of the slaughterhouse,â says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. âPETA urges everyone to go green this St. Patrickâs Day by going vegan, sparing animals tremendous suffering and slashing the carbon emissions produced by animal agriculture.â
Most cows used by the meat industry are often confined to cramped, filthy feedlots, where theyâre forced to live mired in their own waste. Theyâre commonly dosed with antibiotics, branded, and castrated, and their horn buds are gouged or burned out of their skulls without any pain relief. On dairy farms, cows are repeatedly forcibly impregnated and then traumatically separated from their newborn calves until their bodies finally wear out and theyâre sent to slaughter.
According to the United Nations, about a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food production and the largest percentage of these emissions come from the meat and dairy industries. Vegan foodsâsuch as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, peas, nuts, and lentilsârequire less energy, land, and water to produce, and switching to plant-based foods would help drastically reduce human impact on the environment.
PETAâs cow is located at 1370 Grand Blvd.
PETAâwhose motto reads, in part, that âanimals are not ours to eatââopposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Source: Peta.org