Aug 26 2008
Mercy For Animals gets vegetarian message on Chicago streets
Mercy For Animals, a Chicago-based animals rights organization who recently made headlines with an undercover video of a California battery egg farm, has launched a two-month campaign to educate the people of Chicago about the horrors of factory farming and the ethical benefits of a vegetarian diet. Over 600 hundred Mercy For Animals pro-vegetarian ads are appearing on the Chicago Transit Authority’s bus and subway systems. The ads reveal images of abused cows, pigs and chickens confined to tiny cages on factory farms, and asks riders, ‘How much cruelty can you swallow?’.
The ads read: ‘Before being turned into burgers, hot dogs, and nuggets, farm animals suffer painful mutilations, extreme confinement, cruel handling, and violent deaths.’
According to the organization, the ads will have been viewed over 35 million times by the end of the campaign run. And it seems like the message is reaching the people on the street, as this video seems to indicate.
Please support Mercy For Animals and their educational work. You can also do so by shopping for vegetarian goods from The Vegetarian Site.
good post. meat production, especially on a mass-scale, is indeed a controversial issue.
i’m an editor at opposingviews.com, and since you’re obviously passionate on the topic, i thought i’d drop by and let you about a debate we’re having on our site. it’s about whether we should eat meat or not, and we have gary francione and peta arguing that we shouldn’t.
check it out here if you’re interested:
http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/should-we-eat-meat
if you have any questions, just send me an e-mail.
keep blogging!