Joan Jett Urges Women’s Rights Activists to Protect Female Animals as Well: ‘We Are All Sisters’
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts execute at The Creative Coalition’s Benefit Gala Concert: Our Future, Our Freedom at Ramova Theatre on August 21, 2024 in Chicago. London Entertainment/Getty Images
Joan Jett is speaking up regarding a reason she’s enthusiastic regarding: pet civil liberties, especially when it pertains to women animals.
The 66-year-old rock celebrity has actually partnered with PETA for a brand-new business getting in touch with ladies’s civil liberties supporters to consist of pets in their campaigning for. Premiering Monday (Oct 21) throughout The Rachel Maddow Show, the advertisement starts with a close-up of Jett’s face prior to it changes right into headshots of a feline, fox, cow, ape, canine, lamb and various other human ladies.
“We are all sisters under the skin,” the “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” vocalist states in the video clip. “End speciesism!”
Of partnering with the company, Jett informs Billboard, “I want to do everything I can to help animals, and this campaign resonated with me because female animals, in particular, are some of the most abused animals on the planet.”
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“As women, our empathy cannot stop at the human female,” the tale proceeds. “We must oppose the exploitation and abuse of all females, because every animal is someone, and we are all animals.”
Jett, that is vegan, has actually been collaborating with PETA for more than a years. In 2012, she stated her vegetarianism in her first-ever print advertisement for the charitable, which reviewed: “A meatless diet saves animals from suffering, combats environmental destruction and is better from my health.”
In 2022, Jett talked on PETA’s part at SeaWorld’s online yearly investors satisfying to support for an end to the amusement park’s “sordid breeding program.” “SeaWorld has caused public outrage by continuing to forcibly breed bottlenose dolphins and beluga whales in order to create generations of animals who then suffer in cramped tanks, deprived of any semblance of a natural life,” she claimed at the time.
Watch Jett’s PETA advertisement listed below.

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