Good News! Grimsby Auditorium Becomes Latest Theatre to Drop Pig Flesh Following PETA Plea
Update (10 February 2026): Grimsby Auditorium Takes Pigs off the Menu for ‘Peppa Pig’s Big Family Show’
Ahead of Grimsby Auditorium’s live production of “Peppa Pig’s Big Family Show” – featuring the family’s newest addition, baby Evie – the theatre has removed pig flesh from its menu following conversations with PETA.
“As a considerate gesture, Grimsby Auditorium are pleased to inform you that on the day this show visits our venue, we will be removing all pork products from our Stage Door Café Menu,” a Grimsby Auditorium spokesperson confirmed.
Instead of ham and cheese toasties, the Stage Door Cafe at Grisby Auditorium will offer an oink-tastic vegan ham and cheese upgrade, featuring La Vie’s award-winning cruelty-free vegan ham slices.
Original article (published 25 November 2025): Good News! Chichester Festival Theatre Stops Serving Pig Flesh After PETA Plea
After hearing from us that pigs are crammed into barren concrete pens, routinely mutilated without painkillers, and endure a terrifying death at the abattoir, the Chichester Festival Theatre has removed all pig flesh items from the menu at its Minerva Bar for the duration of its showing of The Three Little Pigs.
Compassionate Decision
We’ve sent the theatre’s Executive Director a letter, noting that it would be weird to encourage children to cheer the pigs as they escape being eaten by the wolf in the theatre and then invite them to stuff their mouths with pig flesh in the restaurant. We also reminded them that no pig goes to their death willingly.
The Chichester Festival Theatre has made the compassionate first step to stop serving the flesh of pigs – who, just like those in the show, experience close family bonds and have a desire to live free from harm – at the Minerva Bar. We are now calling on them to also remove the ‘pigs in blankets’ and other pig products from the theatre’s Brasserie restaurant and urge diners to show kindness to all animals by always picking the vegan option.
Mutilated and Confined
Each year, around 10 million pigs are killed in the UK. The vast majority are raised in filthy factory farms, forced to spend their lives in pain with no chance to exhibit natural behaviours.
Farmers clip or grind down many piglets’ teeth and cut their tails off without any painkillers. This is to stop them injuring each other due to the stress of their confinement.
After females give birth, they’re confined to farrowing crates so small that they can’t even turn around, let alone fulfil their strong urge to build a nest as they would naturally do. They are kept in these cages for up to six weeks. Their babies suckle from an area next to the cage known as “the creep”. Mother pigs, who are extremely maternal, cannot nuzzle or access their babies.
Female pigs are forcibly impregnated over and over again, and each litter of piglets is torn away from them after only a few weeks and transported to fattening pens before eventually being sent to slaughter.
Dead Pigs Left to Rot
PETA released eyewitness exposés revealing pigs languishing in shocking conditions on UK farms.
One investigation showed pigs with dirty open wounds and injuries, as well as piles of dead pigs left to rot on slatted floors. In one heartbreaking bit of footage, a pig was seen sniffing at his sibling’s twitching, almost dead body.
Such findings are not isolated. This level of suffering is standard practice on farms in the UK. The farm isn’t a bad apple – the whole tree is rotten.
Death
Most pigs in the UK are killed with a high concentration of CO2 gas. They are forced into a metal gondola that lowers them down to a chamber full of the gas. The gas forms an acid on wet surfaces it touches – such as their eyes, nose, and throat – meaning pigs burn from the inside out.
Investigations have shown pigs thrash around in agony – sometimes for over a minute – before the gas renders them unconscious.
Pigs, Not Pork!
Animals don’t need to be clever or interesting to be treated with respect, but most people have no idea just how incredible pigs are.
Did you know they love music just like us? They also enjoy massages, playing ball, and even decorating their homes with flowers when given the chance. Studies have also shown that pigs can outperform three-year-old human children in intelligence tests.
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