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UC Berkeley Protesters Play Dead to Fight Meat-Eating

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A UC Berkeley protester during anti-meat protest. (Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)

Activists with the UC Berkeley student group Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy staged a protest on the Cal campus Thursday to protest the consumption of meat.

Spokeswoman Kitty Jones said two more similarly dramatic protests are planned in the next few days at locations in the city of Berkeley.

At around 10 a.m. Thursday two students, a man and a woman, stripped to their underwear and lay down on large white trays. Bright red fake blood was poured over them before they were covered in clear plastic to simulate trays of cellophane-wrapped meat.

“We want to raise awareness of animal liberation issues,” said Jones, co-president of the BOAA, an organization sponsored by UC Berkeley’s ASUC student governance body. Jones said they were protesting the consumption of animals that were not born to be eaten, in particular cows, pigs and chickens — as well as humans.

Read the complete post at Berkeleyside: UC Berkeley students tranform themselves into packaged meat for anti-meat consumption protest.

A student protested wrapped and labeled as meat. The label reads: 'Warning: Billions of animals are abused and violently killed because you eat meat. Get help!'
A student protested wrapped and labeled as meat. The label reads: 'Warning: Billions of animals are abused and violently killed because you eat meat. Get help!' (Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)

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