PETA Attacks Trader Joe's For Animal Art and the Grocery Chain Caves to Their Demands

Ferlon Webster Jr. | September 24, 2019
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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) allegedly pushed Trader Joe’s to change their animal hating circus grocery packaging to a more friendly design — and the grocery store chain actually caved to their demands.

With nothing better to do with their lives the animal rights organization reportedly confronted Trader Joe’s about their use of elephant circus art.

“In its correspondence with Trader Joe’s, PETA pointed out that in nature, elephants spend their time roaming vast spaces, foraging, or playing with their families,” they said in a statement. “In circuses, it’s standard practice to beat, shock, chain, and whip elephants, lions, bears, and other animals in order to intimidate them into performing confusing and painful tricks. Circuses tear baby animals away from their mothers, lock animals in cages and on chains, and cart them from city to city."

PETA neglected to understand that the animals drawn on the packaging weren’t harmed at all during the process, but nevertheless Trader Joe’s changed their illustrations by removing the elephants and the animal lovers praised them for it.

"The new designs at Trader Joe's perfectly reflect that our society no longer tolerates beating elephants into submission for circus shows," PETA Foundation Deputy Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Rachel Mathews said. "PETA looks forward to seeing other compassionate companies follow Trader Joe's lead and ditch old-school imagery that normalizes cruelty to animals."

The organization ultimately showed their real excitement by sending Trader Joes’s “a box of delicious, elephant-shaped vegan chocolates.”

According to PETA:

The Trader Joe’s redesign comes roughly one year after discussions with PETA prompted Nabisco to redesign its Barnum’s Animals Crackers package to show animals walking free in nature, rather than caged in circus boxcars.

Yet another thing the leftist animal rights organization can cross off of their useless “let me be outraged for no reason” list.

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