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Jul
Animal rights group protests against Great Yorkshire Show
Animal rights group Peta has put up an anti-sheep farming billboard poster in Harrogate to coincide with this week’s Great Yorkshire Show.
The poster urges sheep farmers to switch to arable farming and claims ‘the future is vegan’.
The billboard is located on Rawson Street in Bilton, just off King Edward's Drive, a few miles from the showground. It will be there for a week.
Peta claimed in a press release the parades and shearing competitions at the four-day show “exploit gentle, non-consenting animals” and hoped the poster encourages farmers to “ditch cruel, environmentally disastrous sheep farming for arable, vegan methods”.
Dawn Carr, Peta vice president of corporate projects, said:
Everyone needs farmers, but farmers don’t need to exploit animals and interfere with their bodies – for wool, meat, or milk – which is why we encourage them to hang up their shears and leave the heartbreak and violence of sheep farming behind.
PETA’s billboard urges farmers to transition to sustainable plant farming and grow nutritious vegetables, grains, pulses, and fruits that are kinder to animals, the planet, and our health.
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