CHULA VISTA–To help fuel health care workers at Scripps Mercy Hospital- who are caring for COVID-19 patients from the U.S.-Mexico border-PETA Latino delivered the best vegan snacks and healthy vegan burritos from Chipotle as well as vegan ice cream generously donated by Baskin-Robbins.
The donation to doctors, nurses, and support staff in the hard-hit facility’s intensive care unit and other departments took place during lunchtime on May 7.
“Healthcare workers at Scripps Mercy Hospital and around the world are heroes who deserve tasty, immune-boosting vegan food like the vegan bacon in today’s breakfast,” says PETA Latino Senior Manager Alicia Aguayo. “PETA Latino hopes this lunchtime delivery will brighten their tough day and remind everyone that tofu, unlike flesh from abused animals, never caused a pandemic.”
PETA Latino—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—notes that the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese “wet market,” where live and dead animals are sold for human consumption.
They also stated that the swine flu began on a U.S. factory farm, and other influenza viruses have been traced to chickens.
“Factory farms and slaughterhouses are as filthy as live-animal markets—their floors are covered with blood, urine, feces, and offal, creating a perfect breeding ground for pathogens that can cross the species barrier,” the organization stated.
Peta Latino added, “In addition to helping prevent future catastrophic global pandemics, each person who goes vegan saves the lives of nearly 200 animals every year and significantly reduces their own risk of suffering from health problems, including strokes, obesity, cancer, and heart disease.”
In their mission statement, PETA Latino opposes speciesism, the belief that humans’ lives matter more than the lives of other animals.
