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January 31, 2023
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Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Stockton, Calif. – To assist a few of the 8 million California residents who reside in meals deserts, Council Member Kimberly Warmsley will be a part of PETA on Thursday to present out free vegan hen burritos and watermelon aguas frescas from Carlos Bryant’s Las Maris meals truck in addition to luggage full of recent produce and nutritious vegan staples like tofu and lentils. This giveaway is a part of PETA’s nationwide meals justice marketing campaign, which goals to redirect the billions of {dollars} in subsidies for the meat, egg, and dairy industries towards incentives for grocers in meals deserts to inventory greens, fruits, and different wholesome, humane, vegan meals.
When: Thursday, February 2, 12 midday–1 p.m.
The place: McKinley Park (on the parking zone on the southeast nook of S. El Dorado and E. Eighth streets), Stockton
“Meals justice is a vital concern right here in South Stockton, which, due largely to meaty and tacky quick meals and the dearth of availability of recent produce, has a few of the highest charges within the state of hypertension, diabetes, and childhood weight problems,” says Warmsley. “With PETA’s assist, we are able to construct a more healthy group by giving residents entry to mock meats that ship actual advantages and to recent fruits, greens, and different vegan meals that ‘health-up’ any’ menu.”
“Everybody deserves to have nourishing meals that retains them thriving as a substitute of being restricted to quick and processed fare filled with animal-derived fats and ldl cholesterol,” says PETA Senior Director Danielle Katz. “PETA’s meals justice marketing campaign empowers folks to take motion by contacting their representatives to demand equal entry to wholesome meals.”
Supporters can textual content JUSTICE to 73822 to name on state legislators to take motion to avoid wasting animals’ lives; assist weak communities cut back their charges of most cancers, coronary heart illness, and diabetes; and safeguard the planet, on condition that animal agriculture is accountable for practically one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse gasoline emissions.
The U.S. authorities presently spends about $38 billion of taxpayers’ cash every year subsidizing the meat, egg, and dairy industries—the overwhelming majority of which fits to massive firms—whereas solely about $17 million is used to subsidize the fruit and vegetable industries.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals are usually not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
