The Butcher HARMS! PETA Proposes Animal-Friendly Name Change for Winterton Pub
14 April 2025
The Butcher Harms! PETA Proposes Animal-Friendly Name Change for Winterton Pub
Winterton, Lincolnshire – Ahead of Easter, PETA has sent a letter to Winterton’s own The Butchers Arms with a suggestion to help make the holiday a reason for everyone to rejoice – change the pub’s name to The Butcher Harms to recognise the cruelty inherent in the meat industry, and veganise the menu. PETA points out that killing animals for meat isn’t just cruel and unnecessary – it also dumps deadly greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and increases humans’ risk of heart disease, strokes, and many cancers.
“Easter is a time to celebrate life, so it’s a perfect time for this pub to be reborn with a fresh new name and outlook,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “PETA will happily pay for a new sign and help the pub craft a vegan menu – after all, no one wants to get caught in the butcher’s arms.”
Sheep recognise the faces of at least 50 other sheep and can remember 50 different images for up to two years. They grow depressed if isolated from their flock and detect anxiety in another sheep simply by observing their face.
Yet each year, millions of lambs bred for their flesh die from exposure, malnutrition, or disease within days of birth, and survivors are typically slaughtered when they’re just 10 weeks old. During their short lives, they may undergo painful mutilations, such as tail-docking and castration, without painkillers. Before they end up on someone’s plate, lambs are packed onto lorries, sometimes without food or water, for gruelling journeys to an abattoir, and some are still conscious and aware as workers cut their throats.
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 and vegan starter kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
Contact:
Lucy Watson +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]
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