Two years in the past, Joey Chestnut was interrupted by a protester who he put in a headlock — after which he nonetheless managed to eat 63 scorching canines and buns on the Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest.
Chestnut won’t be at this 12 months’s occasion (which takes place on Thursday), however activists will probably be.
PETA, the Folks for Moral Therapy of Animals, introduced that they’ll “bombard the competitors’s spectators” with a truck that can encourage the attendees to go vegan.
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The group says it’s a “life-size, hyperrealistic pig transport truck” that’s donned with photographs of pigs in cages which are being despatched to be slaughtered. The truck is known as “Hell on Wheels.”
“Behind each scorching canine is a once-living, delicate particular person who was crammed onto a truck for a terrifying, depressing journey to their loss of life,” Tracy Reiman, PETA’s government vice chairman, mentioned in an announcement to Fox Information Digital. “PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck is an attraction to anybody who eats pigs, cows, or different animals to keep in mind that the meat trade is merciless to them and the one sort meal is a vegan one.”
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The truck will probably be posted exterior the competitors at 11 a.m. ET, an hour earlier than the competitors begins.
The group additionally ripped the “shameful” Nationwide Canine Shot and the use of dwell mascots for sports activities groups, most just lately with the Cleveland Browns after their mascot, a bullmastiff named Swagger Jr., died on the age of 5.
Chestnut was barred from this 12 months’s competitors after he partnered with a Nathan’s rival. Main League Consuming mentioned they might carry the ban if the partnership ended, which by no means occurred.
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Thus, it will likely be the primary time since 2015, and simply the second time since 2007, that there will probably be somebody not named Joey Chestnut has the champion. Chestnut misplaced the competitors in 2015 to Matt Stone.
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