Meat-Heavy Barbecue to Honour King ‘Wildly Hypocritical’, Says PETA
03.10.2024
Parramatta – As Western Sydney prepares to host a community barbecue for King Charles and Queen Camilla, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent a letter to the City of Parramatta suggesting that – given the royals’ interest in subverting climate change and personal experience with cancer – the event should be vegan.
“It would be wildly hypocritical to greet their majesties by grilling the carcinogen-laden flesh of dead animals, the rearing and killing of whom harms the environment and human health,” writes PETA Senior Policy Advisor Mimi Bekhechi. “Please consider using only vegan meat and delicious, healthy plant-based wholefoods for this event.”
A comprehensive dataset study from the University of Oxford found that vegans had a quarter of the impact on greenhouse gas emissions compared to those who eat 100 g of meat or more per day and that vegans produce an astounding 93% fewer methane emissions than the average meat-eater.
The World Health Organization classes processed meats like bacon and sausages as group one carcinogens – the same category as tobacco and asbestos – and World Cancer Research Fund International warns that red and processed meats increase the risk of colorectal cancer, which is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia.
In the meat, egg, dairy, and fishing industries, cows are forcibly separated from their beloved calves, chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, piglets’ tails are docked without painkillers, and fish are cut open while they’re still alive.
PETA’s full letter to the City of Parramatta is available here.
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.au and follow the group on Facebook and Instagram.
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