Will El Arjat Prison Go Vegan for Influencer Who Skinned, Cooked, and Ate a Dog? PETA Offers a Cost-Saving Suggestion

Rabat — In a letter sent today to Mohamed Salah Tamek, Delegate General of the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (GDPAR), PETA Asia urges El Arjat Prison—where influencer Ayoub Ben Nesnes is currently incarcerated following his arrest for skinning, cooking, and eating a dog—and subsequently all correctional facilities across Morocco—to implement a vegan meals policy for inmates. PETA notes that facilities that have done so report calmer populations, major savings, and help promote empathy and nonviolence.

PETA notes that prisons serving vegan meals report major food-cost savings and improved inmate health, as animal-free foods are cholesterol-free, low in saturated fat, and rich in fibre and antioxidants. Since they help protect against diet-related diseases, they also slash prisons’ healthcare costs, and one jail in the U.S. reported a cost reduction of over 2.5 million dirhams when it removed meat from inmates’ meals.

“When we eat meat, eggs, and dairy, we’re supporting industries built on the terror and misery of animals who value their lives just as we do,” says PETA Asia President Jason Baker. “PETA is urging El Arjat Prison to switch to vegan meals as a way to instil empathy in all inmates, right up to the influencer Ayoub Ben Nesnes, who skinned, dismembered and ate a dog for ‘likes’.”

Cows and chickens feel fear, pain, and joy just as humans do, but in the meat, egg, and dairy industries, cows are shot in the head with captive-bolt guns before they’re hung up by one leg and have their throats slit. Chickens are forced into shackles, held upside down, and dragged through electrified water baths before they, too, have their throats slit, often while they’re still conscious. Every person who goes vegan saves nearly 200 animals each year from daily suffering and a terrifying death.

PETA’s full letter to Mohamed Salah Tamek, Delegate General of the GDPAR, is available here.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow PETA Asia on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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