NYC’s Times Square Guests Reminded By Giant Pigeon Billboard: It Ain’t Just MANhattan!
What the Flock?! Giant Pigeon Lands in Times Square, Courtesy of PETA
Editor’s note: Look out for our upcoming article on the Dinosaur sculpture, which was created by an artist working with the City. The sculpture will be on display until 2026, and we interviewed PETA’s expert on pigeons about how amazing pigeons are. Not only do they have families, mate for life, and make excellent parents, but they have “served” in World Wars. One truly famous and helpful pigeon was honored with a Medal Of Honor by the French government for his assistance in World War I. Look out for that story publishing in the next few weeks! Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, has also advocated for pigeons, going so far as to suggest people should give pigeons water during a drought.
PETA’s new message to NYC is coming from a bird’s eye view—both literally and figuratively! Reminding New Yorkers that the city isn’t just for humans, an ad with the tagline “It Ain’t Just MANhattan. I’m a New Yorker, too. Give Me Respect” has been placed in Times Square to honor some of our most unfairly treated neighbors—pigeons.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally. PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
Pigeons are smart.
NYC pigeons can probly pass the bar. 😐
Two years ago I alerted PETA to a massive hoarding case of mostly pigeons that was posing as a sanctuary in Dutchess County, NY. Not only did they do absolutely nothing to act, they insisted the living conditions weren’t an issue and that they “couldn’t” intervene. PETA makes about $90 million a year in profit from merch sales and other income, but spend none of it on actually helping animals. They don’t fund sanctuaries or legal battles on behalf of animals and they do more to prop up worthless non-vegan celebrities based on their speciesism as long as they reject wearing fur, but not other animal’s skins. PETA are hypocrites and are the reason welfarism and utilitarianism is winning, and VEGANISM is failing.
I am going to believe you’re not a troll and you’re sincere.
This paper has a lot of past articles on PETA. The organization definitely does a lot to raise awareness about veganism and animal rights. I don’t know the specifics of anything beyond their PR campaign, but the various articles they put out on here over the years show that PETA does a lot of PR work on behalf of veganism and animals.
Maybe you are right that they don’t do legal battles. I am going to fact-check what you wrote, but I’ll accept it for now. Still, they aren’t doing NOTHING at all. The “worthless” non-vegan celebrities, as you refer to them, are at least willing to put their name behind this “weird” cause of Veganism, even if they aren’t vegan, themselves.
Weird? Well, not to you and me. BUT—Remember, half the country thinks “meat makes a man” and the other half is largely uninformed, even if generally for “rights”.
And, truthfully, most of what I’ve read isn’t about celebs, anyway…like this billboard, for instance.
Most people know about animals suffering because of PETA. I am one such person.