For immediate release:
May 1, 2024
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Moira Colley 202-483-7382
norfolk, virginia –
Ahead of Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, PETA has released an irreverent collection of recipes inspired by Martha Stewart’s “Kentucky Derby At Home” menu. Perfect for partygoers to have fun with in preparation for the inevitable tragic injuries and deaths during the derby. season.
This parody collection includes the Ferdinand “Horse in a Blanket” sausage roll, made with basashi (raw horse meat) and named after Derby winner Ferdinand, who was slaughtered for meat in Japan. Large batch “drug cocktails” of hormones, stimulants, and painkillers, such as those routinely administered to horses used in horse racing. Shaped like a horse’s ankle, the Eightbell Ginger Snap snaps like the mare Eightbell’s front ankle just after crossing the finish line of a race. And the batch of 12 “Death by Chocolate” bourbon balls is one for each of the 12 horses killed at Churchill Downs in the weeks surrounding last year’s Derby.
“When a drugged, overworked animal weighing 1,200 pounds is forced to run at high speeds, horrific injuries and deaths are bound to occur,” said PETA Executive Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA’s Kentucky Derby Recipe will give horse racing fans a taste of the pain and abuse that pervades the horse racing industry.”
PETA’s recipe also includes Bob Baffert Bagel Bites (with poppy seeds, of course), named after the disgraced man who once claimed that poppy seed bagels were the source of morphine in horses’ bodies. It was named after its trainer. whip Cream Derby Pie is a “homage” to Victor Espinoza, the jockey who whipped American Pharoah 32 times in one Derby.
PETA estimates that more than 8,000 horses died at U.S. racetracks between 2009 and 2023, including horses that died during training or were sold for slaughter because they were no longer profitable. It notes that horses are not included.
PETA (part of its motto reads, “Animals do not belong to us and cannot be abused for entertainment or in any other way”) points out that all animals are someone, and is committed to kindness. We offer free empathy kits to people who need lessons. Learn more about. PETA.org or follow the group X, Facebookor Instagram.
