PETA will protest at five “meaty eateries” in Dallas-Fort Worth on April 10, 2025, the advocacy-for-animals group announced.
Its first stop is Terry Black’s Barbecue in Deep Ellum, where the group plans to park its truck with pictures on the side of pigs going to slaughter.
The truck will play “actual recorded sounds of the animals’ panicked screams, along with a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan,” PETA announced.
Terry Black’s co-owner Mark Black was not notified by PETA about the appearance.
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“This happens all the time in Austin with different groups,” said Black, who has restaurants in five Texas cities. “[It] doesn’t really affect us. May actually help us with the attention.”
The truck will then drive to three Honey Baked Ham Company locations: at 4343 W. Northwest Highway in Dallas and at 2221 Porter Creek Drive and 4710 SW Loop 820, both in Fort Worth.
Daddy Pig’s Roller Coaster is one of the kids activities at the Peppa Pig Theme Park in North Richland Hills. A PETA demonstration in April 2025 will encourage kids to go vegan. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
The activist group will eventually expand its Honey Baked Ham visits to other stores in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and more as part of PETA’s “Easter tour” — “to remind shoppers of the suffering behind every glazed ham centerpiece,” a statement said.
While in D-FW, PETA will also visit the Peppa Pig Theme Park, the kid-friendly playplace created after a cartoon TV series.
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PETA executives already hosted a protest on March 1, 2025 at the theme park in North Richland Hills. And, the vegan group put up a Tarrant County billboard that said, “Pigs are friends, not food. Please, go vegan.”