For Speedy Launch:
January 18, 2024
Contact:
Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
Cape Coral, Fla. – Diners in Fort Myers and Cape Coral simply would possibly assume twice about chowing down on fried rooster after they see—and listen to—“Hell on Wheels,” PETA’s guerilla-marketing marketing campaign that includes a life-size rooster transport truck coated with photos of actual chickens crammed into crates on their method to a slaughterhouse, full with precise recorded sounds of the birds’ cries and a subliminal message each 10 seconds suggesting that folks go vegan.
When: Saturday, January 20, 12 midday (Fort Myers), and Thursday, January 25, 12 midday (Cape Coral)
The place: Outdoors Ford’s Storage, 2207 First St., Fort Myers, and McDonald’s, 1222 Cape Coral Pkwy. E., Cape Coral
The vexatious automobile will debut outdoors Ford’s Storage on First Avenue in Fort Myers earlier than shifting on to confront diners at Wings and Rings, Pollo Tropical, Zaxby’s, PDQ, Buckett’s Wings & Extra, and Patinella’s Hen Grill. The next week in Cape Coral, the truck will ruffle feathers at McDonald’s on Cape Coral Parkway E. earlier than shifting on to Wendy’s, Hurricane Grill & Wings, Buffalo Wild Wings, Popeyes, Chick-fil-A, Wingnuts, and different eating places.
“Behind each barbecued wing or bucket of fried rooster is a once-living, delicate particular person who was crammed onto a truck for a terrifying, depressing journey to their loss of life,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck is an attraction to anybody who eats rooster to do not forget that the meat trade is merciless to birds and the one form meal is a vegan one.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to eat”— factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and provides free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness.
For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
