Actor Sunny Leone has been named PETA’s Person of the Year for 2016.
Earlier this year, Leone starred in a PETA ad campaign in which she encouraged fans to “be an angel” by adopting a homeless dog. She also put her money where her mouth is by helping PETA find a home for a puppy who had been abandoned during the monsoon.
She has also gone vegetarian, saying, “I have seen things I can’t erase from my mind which made me stop eating meat”.
Leone knows it’s also vital to combat the root cause of animal homelessness, which is why she appeared in another PETA ad next to the words “Birth Control! Dogs Need It, Too. Sterilise Your Dogs and Cats”.
And as seen in PETA’s exposé “Glass Walls”, in today’s industrialised meat industries, chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, fish suffocate or are cut open while they’re still alive, and pigs are often stabbed in the heart as they scream in pain. At the slaughterhouse, animals are often killed in full view of one another and dismembered while they’re still conscious.
