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TORONTO - In a bid to save animals’ skin, protesters showed off some of their own Tuesday.
Nearly nude volunteers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were wrapped in plastic and smeared with fake blood in front of Quality Meat Packers Ltd. on Tecumseth St., near Bathurst and King Sts.
Their provocative poses were intended to mimic the meat packages in grocery aisles and butcher shops in an attempt to draw attention to the food industry’s treatment of animals.
“There’s very little difference between the meat that’s wrapped up on grocery store shelves and the human meat we have on display today,” said Natalie Fenton, meat-free for 14 years.
“As my five-year-old says, ‘I don’t eat my friends,’” volunteer Miriam Porter added.
Over two dozen protesters held up signs with slogans such as: “If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls...Go Vegan!” and “Meat Is Murder.” Photographers, police and passers-by crowded the street were the biggest commotion is usually caused by the rumble of transport trucks hauling hogs to the meat packing facility.
Some residents complain about the noise, smell and impact on property value of the abattoir in the heart of their residential neighbourhood, but PETA members came with one thing in mind.
“Any publicity is good publicity,” Black said. “And I think that’s the PETA mandate, drawing attention to it by any means necessary.” Some attendees arrived at the PETA point of view the long way.
“I was 310 pounds,” said a young man who identified himself as Richard. “I went vegan and I managed to lose 130 pounds with that. But I encountered many reasons why I should be vegan like animal rights, environmental reasons.”
The protest kicked of a series of similar PETA events that will see volunteers in cities across the country frozen in packaged poses of helplessness. The graphic displays will reveal themselves at specially chosen sites between July 15 and Aug. 4.
“We’d like to pick the most meaty looking steakhouses,” said PETA campaigner Emily Lavender, whose current job involves following Prime Minister Stephen Harper around in a seal costume. “People will be eating their steak while seeing this blood and flesh.”
Quality Meat Packers declined comment on the protest.
Nearly nude volunteers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were wrapped in plastic and smeared with fake blood in front of Quality Meat Packers Ltd. on Tecumseth St., near Bathurst and King Sts.
Their provocative poses were intended to mimic the meat packages in grocery aisles and butcher shops in an attempt to draw attention to the food industry’s treatment of animals.
“There’s very little difference between the meat that’s wrapped up on grocery store shelves and the human meat we have on display today,” said Natalie Fenton, meat-free for 14 years.
“As my five-year-old says, ‘I don’t eat my friends,’” volunteer Miriam Porter added.
Over two dozen protesters held up signs with slogans such as: “If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls...Go Vegan!” and “Meat Is Murder.” Photographers, police and passers-by crowded the street were the biggest commotion is usually caused by the rumble of transport trucks hauling hogs to the meat packing facility.
Some residents complain about the noise, smell and impact on property value of the abattoir in the heart of their residential neighbourhood, but PETA members came with one thing in mind.
“Any publicity is good publicity,” Black said. “And I think that’s the PETA mandate, drawing attention to it by any means necessary.” Some attendees arrived at the PETA point of view the long way.
“I was 310 pounds,” said a young man who identified himself as Richard. “I went vegan and I managed to lose 130 pounds with that. But I encountered many reasons why I should be vegan like animal rights, environmental reasons.”
The protest kicked of a series of similar PETA events that will see volunteers in cities across the country frozen in packaged poses of helplessness. The graphic displays will reveal themselves at specially chosen sites between July 15 and Aug. 4.
“We’d like to pick the most meaty looking steakhouses,” said PETA campaigner Emily Lavender, whose current job involves following Prime Minister Stephen Harper around in a seal costume. “People will be eating their steak while seeing this blood and flesh.”
Quality Meat Packers declined comment on the protest.
