PETA’s Shocking Gift for Kaleb Cooper: Book Starring Screaming Animals
PETA’s Shocking Gift for Kaleb Cooper: Book Starring Screaming Animals
Somerset/Oxford – Ahead of the Royal Bath and West Show (29 May), where soon-to-be children’s author Kaleb Cooper is set to speak to kids about farming, PETA sent the Clarkson’s Farm star a “children’s book” for adults, which – while drawn in pleasant pastels – features the sounds of real animal screams and nursery rhymes describing the horrors that animals endure in the meat, egg and dairy industries.
As PETA explains to Cooper in an accompanying letter, “The Secret Lives of Animals is written in simple rhyme so everyone can understand that animals are not ‘stock’; they’re individuals who value their lives just like we do.” PETA hopes that the book may even inspire Cooper to “start a kinder chapter” by growing and harvesting plant crops and leaving animals in peace.
“Children have a natural empathy for animals, and they deserve to know what really happens on farms, where kids just like them are torn away from their mothers, have their tails chopped off without pain relief and are killed at a fraction of their natural life expectancy,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “PETA encourages Kaleb Cooper to educate himself about animal rights and tell young audiences the truth about how animals suffer in the farming system.”
Cows develop friendships over time, pigs recognise their own names, sheep wag their tails when they’re happy, and chickens in nature live in large social groups with complex hierarchies (a “pecking order”) that reflect their distinct personalities. Millions of animals endure short, miserable lives in the meat, egg, and dairy industries, where they’re subjected to extreme crowding, routine mutilations without pain relief, a terrifying trip to an abattoir, and a violent, agonising death. Many are ineffectively stunned and killed while still conscious.
In addition to sparing animals a lifetime of suffering, each person who goes vegan dramatically shrinks their food-related carbon footprint and slashes their risk of developing cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help those looking to make the switch.
Last year, PETA wrote to the Royal Bath and West Show urging the event to ban animal parades and exhibits, and only showcase vegan farmers.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any way” – points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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