PETA barbecues a baby at Pitt Street Mall. Sydney ahead of Easter celebrations
Vegans stage mock barbecue of babies and dogs to shock shoppers and drop meat from their Easter meals
- PETA protested by grilling a baby in Sydney
- Group is trying to target the meat industry
Stunned bystanders have seen animal activists barbecuing a doll as part of a bizarre PETA protest.
The curious cookout took place at Pitt Street Mall in Sydney’s CBD on Wednesday, where a chef grilled a “realistic” baby doll as part of PETA’s “Keep babies off the barbecue” protest.
The protest comes ahead of the Easter long weekend as PETA tries to remind passersby of the young age when some animals are “killed for their flesh.”
βPETA urges anyone averse to the prospect of chewing a newborn to consider that eating a baby β regardless of species β is equally horrifying,β said PETA campaign adviser Mimi Bekhechi.
The radical group has made numerous appearances over the years in Sydney’s busy shopping mall, often using barbecue grills and meat-style props to emphasize their message.
Stunned bystanders witnessed a baby doll barbecuing as part of a bizarre PETA protest
The group has appeared on Sydney’s Pitt Street Mall over the years, often using barbeques with gruesome scenes
Their latest demonstration aims to highlight the use of piglets in the meat industry for ham and bacon
“If you wouldn’t eat another mother’s baby, you would have to go vegan,” Ms Bekhechi said.
PETA said more than 4.9 billion land and marine animals are killed each year to feed Australia’s population, citing horrific atrocities from eyewitness studies of farms and slaughterhouses.
This isn’t the first time PETA has used barbecue or meat product props to prove a point, and it’s not even the first time they’ve done it at Pitt Street Mall
In 2019, the group appeared with a lifelike dog being barbecued in the exact same position as this year’s baby, albeit with a more photorealistic take on the theme last time.
Again protesting the eating of meat, they had asked the onlookers at the time, ‘If you wouldn’t eat a dog, why would you eat a lamb?’
The stunt gained a lot of attention after children walking through the busy shopping district were left in distress after mistaking the stunt for the real thing.
In 2019, a prop dog grilled alongside corn, onions, and mushrooms in an eerily similar Pitts Street Mall demonstration