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For immediate release:
October 2, 2020
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Washington – See the following statement from PETA’s Senior Scientific Advisor Dr. Frances Cheng on the plan to kill nearly 500,000 sharks for the COVID-19 vaccine:
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that exploiting animals got us into this mess, and continuing to exploit them is not going to get us out of it. Like shark finning, livering is a for-profit business that will reportedly catch and kill nearly half a million sharks over the next several years so that their livers can be cut off and squalene can be obtained. used by certain pharmaceutical companies in creating COVID. -19 vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans started in other animals. Cutting shark body parts for use in vaccines is not only cruel to animals and dangerously irresponsible from a human health point of view, but it is also unnecessary, as squalene can easily be derived from plants and many of the COVID-19 vaccine candidates do not. contain it.
PETA, whose motto says, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment with,” opposes speciesism, a human supremacist worldview. For more information please visit PETA.org.
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