{"id":777716,"date":"2025-03-03T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=777716"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:14:30","slug":"choose-vegan-free-speech-victory-in-wyomings-cattle-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=777716","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Choose Vegan&#8217;: Free speech victory in Wyoming\u2019s cattle country"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>PETA claimed a free speech victory by reaching a settlement in a lawsuit against the Rock Springs, Wyoming airport, which had refused to let it advertise a message criticizing leather luggage. The airport will pay PETA $35,000 in legal fees and allow it to advertise as it does others. In its suit, PETA claimed that the airport, which advertised rodeo events on various platforms, invented a reason to reject PETA\u2019s carry-on criticism. The airport\u2019s actions were unconstitutional, the suit asserted. 'PETA is celebrating this victory for the First Amendment and for cows who don\u2019t want to be tormented and killed for their skins,' Asher Smith, PETA Foundation\u2019s director of litigation, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>ANGUS THUERMER JR.<\/strong>:The animal rights group PETA claimed a free speech victory saying it reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the Rock Springs airport, which had refused to let it advertise a message criticizing leather luggage&#8230; In its suit, PETA claimed that the airport, which advertised rodeo events on various platforms, invented a reason to reject PETA\u2019s carry-on criticism&#8230; The airport\u2019s actions were unconstitutional, the suit asserted. Further, travelers can easily find vegan leather for their carry-ons, the group said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In the heart of Wyoming\u2019s cattle and rodeo country, where cowboys ride leather saddles, cowgirls wear leather boots and most everybody else has leather gloves, airport officials blocked People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals from buying advertising urging fliers not to travel with leather luggage. The airport will pay PETA $35,000 in legal fees and allow it to advertise as it does others, the animal rights group said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cPETA is celebrating this victory for the First Amendment and for cows who don\u2019t want to be tormented and killed for their skins,\u201d Asher Smith, PETA Foundation\u2019s director of litigation, said in a statement. The rejected ad depicts a leather handbag with a cow\u2019s head and legs \u2014 it looks to be a red-and-white Holstein dairy cow seldom seen in the area. Next to the image is the question, \u201cWas she killed to make your carry-on?\u201d <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhnewsandguide.com\/jackson_hole_daily\/state_and_regional\/wyofile\/peta-claims-free-speech-victory-in-wyoming-s-cattle-country\/article_9f0e9ae2-f7c8-11ef-b034-6b895d43e0dc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>SOURCE&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fk8vw6BjKec?si=cqtxOmvhg_1urGhX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANGUS THUERMER JR.:The animal rights group PETA claimed a free speech victory saying it reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the Rock Springs airport, which had refused to let it advertise a message criticizing leather luggage&#8230; In its suit, PETA claimed that the airport, which advertised rodeo events on various platforms, invented a reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,31,35,38],"class_list":["post-777716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777719,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777716\/revisions\/777719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}