People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently purchased stock in Whole Foods’ parent company, Amazon, “in order to influence the grocery chain to stop humane washing foods for which hens, mother cows and other female animals are exploited.”
The organization said the stock purchase will allow PETA to attend the company’s annual meetings, submit shareholder resolutions and “pressure executives over Whole Foods’ Global Animal Partnership labels on meat, which mislead consumers into believing that animals did not suffer.”
The group claims “sexual exploitation” is rampant in animal agriculture because of “speciesism,” or the “human-supremacist mentality that all species are inferior to our own.”
