Dick Gregory Speaks Up for Farmed Animals

Renowned civil rights leader and vegetarian Dick Gregory is no stranger to the fight against injustice. He has been an influential figure in the civil rights movement for more than 40 years and was an outspoken advocate for peace during the Vietnam War. He is also an enthusiastic PETA supporter who has recorded a commercial urging people to boycott circuses that use animals in what he calls "modern-day slavery" and wrote to David Novak, CEO of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s parent company, Yum! Brands, asking him to help eliminate the worst abuses that chickens on KFC supply farms endure.

In Gregory’s latest initiative to help end the suffering of factory-farmed animals, he has again teamed up with PETA to produce a 30-second television commercial encouraging people to adopt a vegetarian diet. The ad, which shows undercover footage from inside factory farms, depicts the horrors that animals suffer in the food industry—from having their horns and beaks sliced off without painkillers to being crammed by the thousands into windowless sheds and cages so small that they can’t spread a wing or turn around. Watch it now.

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