So last Friday, June 26, I focused on Peta's McCruelty campaign. I started the day with petitioning in D.C. with Peta2. Regina, Peta2's D.C. coordinator, and Ryan, Peta2's college coordinator, organized the petitioning in McPherson Square where the Animal Liberation Project was temporarily set up. Although this location was less than ideal for petitioning since most of the people walking through the area were business people rushing on lunch break or homeless people giving us a hard time we did collect a good number of signatures and explained our cause to everyone willing to listen. I also got to walk through the Animal Liberation Project, which was great because I had heard about it but hadn't seen it yet.
After the petitioning I drove up to Philly and did a demonstration at a McDonalds in South Philly. We had ten activists, including one in a chicken suit which attracted a lot of attention from everyone driving by. If the chicken suit didn't catch their attention our posters were sure to. We had a graphic poster of a chicken reading "Scaled Alive", as well as others that read "Boycott McDonald's Cruelty", "Broken Legs and Wings", and "McCruelty, I'm Hatin' It". We also gave out free UN-happy meals. My next McCruelty event will be a huge demonstration in D.C. that is being filmed for a documentry on July 11.
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