A new anti-meat billboard, supported by members of the group Orange County People for Animals, and backed by Mercy For Animals, is giving thousands of Fort Collins, Colorado drivers some serious food for thought. The eye-catching advertisement, featuring a lovable puppy sitting next to an adorable piglet, asks travelers, “Why love one but eat the other?”
Motorists are urged to widen their circle of compassion to include all animals by choosing vegetarianism.
While all 50 states have laws protecting dogs and cats from abuse, animals on factory farms have little to no legal protection in most states. Cruelty that would be punishable by law, if it were inflicted on dogs or cats, such as neglect, mutilation, transport through all weather extremes, and gruesome and violent slaughter, is commonplace in animal agribusiness. Yet farmed animals are no less intelligent or capable of feeling pain than are the dogs and cats we cherish as companions.
MFA has run similar pro-vegetarian billboard and transit ad campaigns nationwide. To make a tax-deductible donation to support future ads, click here.
