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Campaigners are calling on theatre bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in their cafes \u2013 at least while Peppa Pig and her family are performing in the same building.<\/p>\n
Grimsby Auditorium in Lincolnshire said this week it would remove pork from the menu when Peppa Pig\u2019s Big Family Show opens next month, after a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta UK). The campaign group is sending the venue vegan ham as an alternative.<\/p>\n
Jennifer White, an associate director at Peta, welcomed the decision, saying she hoped it would remind people \u201cthat all pigs are individuals with personalities and not body parts to be chopped up\u201d.<\/p>\n
Peppa Pig\u2019s Big Family Show is touring the UK and Ireland until September. White said Peta contacted Grimsby after reviewing theatre menus and noticing a startling amount of pork. The venue agreed to the request, and Peta said it hoped others would follow suit.<\/p>\n
In the letter to the theatre, Peta wrote: \u201cAs the fictional Pig family comes to life on stage, real pigs lose their lives for the bacon and sausage in your cafe. It\u2019s a jarring contradiction: encouraging children to cheer for Peppa and her family one moment, then inviting them to eat the flesh of pigs the next.<\/p>\n
<\/span>An indoor commercial pig farm.<\/span> Photograph: Farlap\/Alamy<\/p>\n \u201cLike Peppa and [baby sister] Evie, real pigs are playful, curious, and social. But on the UK\u2019s industrial pig farms, most spend their entire short lives confined to filthy sheds without sunlight.\u201d<\/p>\n The letter acknowledged that the show would not depict Peppa and Evie \u201cconvulsing in a gas chamber\u201d but said \u201cthe products of this real-life suffering can be found in your cafe\u201d.<\/p>\n The auditorium told Peta it would remove pork products from the Stage Door cafe menu as a \u201cconsiderate gesture\u201d during the show\u2019s run on 3-4 March.<\/p>\n White said she hoped the Grimsby decision \u2013 and any similar moves elsewhere \u2013 would prompt meaningful conversations between parents and children about the ethics of eating animals. She encouraged families to order Peta\u2019s free vegan starter kit, which features recipes and practical advice.<\/p>\n First broadcast in the UK in 2004, Peppa Pig is now shown in more than 180 territories and 40 languages.<\/p>\n When Evie Pig was born last year, Grazia published an interview with Mummy Pig in which she revealed the baby\u2019s gender and speculated on what they might call her. \u201cWe\u2019ve got SO many ideas for names,\u201d she said. \u201cToo many, frankly! Oink!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Alongside more than 400 TV episodes and the touring stage show, the franchise includes Peppa Pig World in the New Forest, praised by Boris Johnson in 2021 in a rambling speech to the Confederation of British Industry.<\/p>\n <\/span>Boris Johnson praises Peppa Pig in bizarre CBI speech \u2013 video<\/span><\/p>\n Urging business leaders to visit, he said: \u201cI loved it. Peppa Pig World is very much my kind of place. It has very safe streets, discipline in schools, heavy emphasis on new mass transit systems. Even if they\u2019re a bit stereotypical about Daddy Pig.\u201d<\/p>\n White said she hoped all theatres and arts organisations would reflect on their menus.<\/p>\n In November, Peta said it had persuaded Chichester Festival theatre to drop pork products from its menus during a run of The Three Little Pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Campaigners are calling on theatre bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in their cafes \u2013 at least while Peppa Pig and her family are performing in the same building. Grimsby Auditorium in Lincolnshire said this week it would remove pork from the menu when Peppa Pig\u2019s Big Family Show opens next month, after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[680,343,23074,17434,23073,23071,10741,23072,9408,241,5502],"class_list":{"0":"post-44447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-calls","9":"tag-childrens","10":"tag-grimsby","11":"tag-menus","12":"tag-peppa","13":"tag-peta","14":"tag-pig","15":"tag-porkfree","16":"tag-rolls","17":"tag-show","18":"tag-theatre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}