Photo Op: PETA Supporters to Serve Up Human ‘Meat’ in Advance of Mid-Autumn Festival

What: Families shopping in Ximending for the Mid-Autumn Festival will be met with a startling sight on Wednesday: a trio of PETA supporters covered in “blood” and lying on giant meat trays wrapped in cellophane. The gruesome display will remind meat-eaters that humans and other animals are the same in all the ways that matter and that neither wants to be carved up and served on a plate.

“Meaty Mid-Autumn Festival barbecues mean misery and death for pigs, cows, and other animals, who feel pain and fear and value their lives just as humans do,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA urges anyone horrified by the idea of cooking human meat to extend that empathy to all animals and please, go vegan.”

Where:  Ximending Shopping District (Exit 6, MRT Ximen Station), Taipei (See the Google Maps link here.)

When:  Wednesday, October 1, 2 p.m.

Interviews will be available on-site and remotely. Photos of the event will be available on Google Drive after 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

Credit: PETA

Why:  Last year, over 420 million land and waterfowl animals in Taiwan were slaughtered for food—a number that doesn’t even count fish. Around the world, animals are raised in filthy conditions and are subjected to extreme crowding, routine mutilations without pain relief, a terrifying trip to a slaughterhouse, and a violent, painful death.

Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year, dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint, and reduces their risk of suffering from heart disease, one of the leading causes of death in Taiwan, as well as cancer, strokes, diabetes, and obesity.

 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 on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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