‘The Grand Parade Is a Grand Shame’: PETA Urges Royal Highland Show to Drop Cruel Spectacle
‘The Grand Parade Is a Grand Shame’: PETA Urges Royal Highland Show to Drop Cruel Spectacle
Edinburgh – Ahead of the annual Royal Highland Show from 19 to 22 June, PETA sent a letter (available here) to Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland Chair James Logan encouraging him to march the show into the 21st century by scrapping the cruel, archaic Grand Parade of “livestock” and allowing PETA to erect a statue celebrating animals as individuals instead.
Currently, the parade forces frightened and stressed horses and farmed animals to walk or be dragged through noisy, jeering crowds. PETA’s statue would memorialize the animals who were treated as mere “stock” and paraded against their will and will encourage people to go vegan to prevent more suffering.
“Playful cows and clever sheep don’t want to be put on display for rowdy spectators who will soon be dining on their siblings and cousins,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “PETA urges the Royal Highland Show to celebrate Britain’s hard-working plant farmers and leave animals in peace.”
Billions of cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, and other animals endure short, miserable lives in the meat, egg, and dairy industries. They’re typically confined in cramped, filthy sheds where they’re forced to stand in their own waste and endure painful mutilations such as tail-docking, castration, and de-beaking without painkillers. Eventually they’re loaded onto trucks for a terrifying trip to an abattoir where they’ll suffer a violent, painful death. Many are ineffectively stunned and killed while still conscious.
Every person who goes vegan saves the lives of approximately 200 animals per year and reduces their own risk of heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers, obesity, and other illnesses. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help anyone thinking of making the switch.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA UK on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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