For Immediate Release:
April 4, 2024
Contact:
Sara Groves 202-483-7382
Amarillo, Texas – Following the information that Cal-Maine Foods Inc. killed almost 2 million chickens at an egg manufacturing unit in Parmer County as a consequence of a fowl flu outbreak, PETA plans to place a sky-high warning close to the plant, reminding everybody that slaughterhouses and filthy, severely crowded sheds the place chickens are confined within the egg trade are breeding grounds for a number of lethal pathogens that may simply mutate and unfold to people.
“Eating meat, eggs, and dairy from deplorable operations where thousands or even millions of animals are confined amid their own waste not only is disgusting but also will unquestionably lead to another pandemic,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “The only solution is to go vegan, and PETA stands ready with free vegan starter kits to help everyone make the switch—before it’s too late.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture just lately revealed that extremely pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in cows used for dairy in Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas; is current within the milk of contaminated cows; and has been transmitted from a cow to a human not less than as soon as within the Texas Panhandle—the area the place Cal-Maine Foods’ Parmer County egg manufacturing unit is situated. PETA factors out that almost all of ailments which have triggered epidemics or pandemics in recent years originated in animals earlier than being transmitted to people, together with AIDS, avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19. Strains of avian flu have already unfold, decimating wild fowl populations across the globe. Last 12 months alone, not less than 58 million birds confined on farms had been systematically killed to restrict the unfold of the virus.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals are not ours to eat”—factors out that Every Animal Is Someone and gives free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
