“Hell on Wheels” comes to Youngstown – Pigsty broadcasts screams of dying animals outside Jay’s Famous Hot Dogs

For immediate release:
July 5, 2024

Contact:
Maddy Missett 202-483-7382

Youngstown, Ohio –

Guests on the way to Jay’s Famous Hot Dogs on Boardman-Canfield Road will hear a lot on Monday when “Hell on wheels“” – PETA’s life-sized, hyper-realistic pig truck covered in images of real pigs crammed into crates on their way to slaughter – will bombard them with actual recorded sounds of the animals’ panicked screams, along with a subliminal message every 10 seconds encouraging people to go vegan.

Where: In front of Jay’s Famous Hot Dogs, 68 Boardman-Canfield Rd., Youngstown

When: Monday, July 8, 12 noon

“Behind every hot dog or piece of bacon is a once-living, sensitive individual crammed into a truck for a horrific, miserable journey to death,” said PETA Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck is a call to all pork eaters to remember that the meat industry is cruel to them and that the only good meal is a vegan one.”

In the meat industry, workers cut off piglets’ tails, cut their teeth with pliers, and castrate the males – all without painkillers. When it’s time to slaughter, they’re crammed into trucks and transported hundreds of miles in all weather conditions, without food, water, or rest. More than a million pigs die each year and at least 40,000 more are injured during transport to the slaughterhouse. (Just last month, dozens of pigs were killed when a transport truck overturned on an I-70 ramp in Clayton.) It’s common for pigs to suffer heat exhaustion or even freeze to the sides of trucks on the way to the slaughterhouse.

PETA—whose motto, in part, is “Animals are not there for us to eat”—points out that every animal is someone, and offers free empathy kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. PETA’s free vegan starter kit is full of tips to help anyone considering making the switch.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebookor Instagram.