French Embassy to Face Plague of Writhing ‘Frogs’ in Push From PETA to End Frog-Leg Imports

 What:             A coalition of PETA supporters wearing frog masks will cram themselves into burlap sacks and squirm outside the Embassy of France—a country that’s one of the world’s largest importers of frogs’ legs—in Jakarta on Tuesday to urge the French government to ban frog-meat imports. The action comes after a PETA investigation into seven frog-meat operations in Indonesia exposed workers capturing frogs and stuffing them into crowded sacks, leaving many to slowly suffocate, dismembering them, and even skinning them while they were still alive.

“These filthy facilities are hell on earth for sensitive frogs, who die in agony on the floor after workers peel the skin from their still-moving bodies and chop them to pieces,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA is calling on the French government to stop propping up this cruel industry and urges everyone to help end this abuse by going vegan.”

PETA’s investigation into the frog-meat industry in Indonesia revealed that live frogs are kept in cramped sacks, sometimes for as long as two days. Workers were documented slamming live frogs onto the ground, repeatedly hacking at their heads and feet with knives, and tearing the skin from their bodies while they continued to move. Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of frogs’ legs, selling up to hundreds of millions of them to distributors in the EU every year. According to Eurostat, the EU imported an estimated 77 million pounds of frogs’ legs between 2010 and 2022, representing about 703 million to 1.7 billion frogs.

French retailer Carrefour, which had been identified as one of the recipients of frog legs from facilities investigated by PETA, halted imports from Indonesia following the group’s investigation.

Where:           Outside the Embassy of France,

When:             Tuesday, February 27, 12 noon sharp

PETA Asia—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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