The Princeton Naked Demo! April 5, 2009
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by Jenny Palmer, president of the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
How do you get a school—seemingly full of self-focused, wannabe investment bankers—to stop for a moment and think about the plight of animals? You strip down to your undies, cover yourself with stage blood, and lie in human-sized meat trays right outside the dining hall windows.
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At least that’s what we, the Princeton Animal Welfare Society did this May with the help of PETA and PETA VP Dan Mathews. The human meat tray demonstration shocked passersby into realizing that animals' flesh and bones are the same as ours. With the paint melting off their bodies and forming puddles of "blood" and sweat on the trays, the Princeton students looked disturbingly like the chicken breasts you find in the supermarket.
After seeing 11 nearly-nude students baking in these trays under the hot sun, one student told us, "You'll be pleased to know that I can't look at meat the same way anymore. Your demonstration produced a visceral change in my viscera: My gut churns sometimes when I see bloody flesh in shrink wrap at the stores. I consume much less meat, only sandwich meats if anything. I'm gradually phasing it out of my life."
Of course, not all the reactions were positive. It's easy to dismiss a provocative demonstration as just a publicity stunt by crazy animal rights activists. We worked hard to back up our demonstration with strong facts and reasoning by handing out informative leaflets, hosting a talk by Dan Mathews that evening explaining why these tactics are unfortunately necessary, and talking to people one-on-one about why we believe so strongly that "meat is murder."
I would encourage all of you who care about animals to do a similar demonstration on your campus. Organizing a demo requires work, but if you want to make an impression, it's well worth the effort. All it takes is coordination of everything from the props to the human chickens, an administration that is willing to grant permission, and, most importantly, brave students who will put themselves on display for a cause they believe in.
Human BBQ at Princeton University! November 21, 2008
Posted by Ryan at November 21, 2008 3:11 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 8 ) | TrackBackAs frequent visitors to peta2 may already know, the Princeton Animal Welfare Society is the faaaantastic student group at Princeton University.
This week, the group wanted to organize a demonstration to highlight their "College Veg Pledge" campaign, which encourages students to go vegetarian for one day, to see how simple and delicious it is!
They knew it had to be attention-grabbing, since Princeton students are a busy bunch. Did someone say "human BBQ"?
The event was perfectly timed to coincide with an excellent opinion piece written by group members in the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, so that everywhere students looked, they saw something about vegetarianism!
Looks like someone must have checked out our "How to Start a Buzz on Campus" video... :)
Go PAWS, go!
- Ryan!
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