On Tuesday, October 14, PETA's "Holocaust On Your Plate" exhibit will be on display in Times Square (on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets) from 12 noon to 2pm. The display consists of eight 60-square-foot panels that show photos of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side by side with photos from Nazi death camps. Among those on hand in support of the exhibit will be Dr. Charles Patterson, author of "ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust," the book on which the exhibit is based, and Stephen R. Dujack, grandson of the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, to whose memory Patterson dedicated his book.
(PRWEB) October 13 2003--On Tuesday, October 14, the controversial PETA exhibit, which has already been to more than 50 American cities, will be on display in Times Square (Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets) from 12 noon to 2pm. The display consists of eight 60-square-foot panels, each showing photos of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side by side with photos from Nazi death camps. The exhibit graphically depicts the point made by the Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer when he wrote, "In relation to animals, all people are Nazis; for the animals it's an eternal Treblinka."
On hand in support of the exhibit will be:
- Dr. Charles Patterson, author of ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (Lantern Books, 2002). Patterson, who was Singer's neighbor on West 86th Street, dedicated his book to the great writer's memory. ETERNAL TREBLINKA has already been translated into German, Italian, Polish, and Czech.
- Singers grandson, Stephen R. Dujack. He is returning to the city his grandfather made his home for many years after fleeing Europe during the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s.
- PETA Campaign Coordinator Matt Prescott, who organized the exhibit and has now taken it to 40 states. He plans on taking it to Europe and Australia as well.
PETA hopes that the exhibit will stimulate people to think how the victimization of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others, characterized as life unworthy of life" during the Holocaust, parallels the way that modern society abuses and justifies the slaughter of animals.
Just as the Nazis tried to dehumanize" Jews by forcing them to live in filthy, crowded conditions, tearing children away from their mothers and killing them in assembly-line fashion, animals on todays factory farms are stripped of all that is enjoyable and natural to them and treated as nothing more than meat-, egg-, and milk-producing "machines." Hens are crammed on top of each other in small wire cages. Pigs are kept in narrow, barren, concrete-floored stalls and are castrated and have their tails cut off without painkillers. Calves raised for veal are taken away from their mothers within hours of birth, only to be chained inside tiny, dark stalls where they cannot even turn around for four months until they are taken to the slaughterhouse.
"The very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible--that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different' or 'inferior'--is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day," says Prescott, members of whose family were murdered by the Nazis. "We are asking people to allow compassion into their hearts and onto their tables by embracing a nonviolent, plant-based diet that respects other forms of life."
For more information about ETERNAL TREBLINKA, the highly acclaimed book behind the exhibit, visit EternalTreblinka.com.
For more information about PETAs "Holocaust on Your Plate" project and to view the photo panels, visit MassKilling.com.
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