PETA Entities Alert Celebs: Horse-Mutilating Budweiser Named Clydesdales After Mick Jagger, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and J.Lo
PETA Entities Alert Celebs: Horse-Mutilating Budweiser Named Clydesdales After Mick Jagger, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and J.Lo
London – American brewing company Anheuser-Busch has named four of its famous Budweiser Clydesdale horses after Mick Jagger, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and J.Lo, and in response, PETA entities worldwide are calling on the music icons to speak out against the brand for using horses with amputated tailbones. As PETA US revealed in a recent , Budweiser using a scalpel or a tight band that painfully cuts off the blood supply, eventually causing most of the bone to die and fall off – just so the horses will look a certain way when hitched to a beer wagon.
“We’re asking Beyoncé to ring the alarm and Rihanna to send an SOS to help prevent magnificent horses from being mutilated to sell beer,” says PETA US Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “If Mick Jagger will start it up and J.Lo will get loud, Budweiser may finally stop this cruel practice.”
Disfigured Clydesdales hitched to a Budweiser beer wagon. Credit: PETA US.
Both the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the American Veterinary Medical Association condemn severing horses’ tails unless it’s medically necessary, as the animals need their tails for balance and to protect themselves from biting and disease-spreading insects. This practice has been including Belgium, where Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is headquartered.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or Instagram.
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