PETA statement re Chatuchak market deaths

Below, please find a statement from PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker regarding the Chatuchak market deaths:

For over a decade, PETA has been calling for the closure of the notorious Chatuchak market, where countless exploited animals suffer. Today’s tragedy, in which around a thousand animals perished in a devastating fire, underscores the urgent need for action. Animals are not ours to use for our entertainment. Cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC have banned the sale of many animals including cats and dogs. PETA urges the Thai government to ensure that this facility, where captive animals suffer, never reopens.

 

Chatuchak market is just a huge pet store. Anyone who buys animals, no matter where they are in the world, supports places like this.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.