Feminist icon Joan Jett, a queen of rock ’n’ roll, gives a damn about reproductive rights for everyone—including the hens, cows, and other animals who are abused and exploited by the cruel meat, egg, and dairy industries. In a new PETA video, which will air during a commercial break in The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday, October 21, the rock legend and longtime vegan morphs into images of different women and other female animals, saying, “We are all sisters under the skin. End speciesism.”

As discussions rage over women’s rights, equal pay, abortion access, and more, Jett’s video is a powerful display of solidarity with all females. 

We are daughters, sisters, and mothers. … And if any of us were forcibly bred or had our breast milk or eggs taken and sold or our children stolen from us to be experimented on, we’d all feel violated and angry and heartbroken.”

Real Feminists Support Animal Rights!

Our fellow animals can feel love, pain, and fear, yet the meat, egg, and dairy industries exploit them as if they were objects. In the dairy industry, workers forcibly inseminate (rape) cows by inserting an arm into the animal’s rectum to deliver semen with a metal rod into her vagina. Like all mothers, cows are nurturing and protective of their precious babies—but on dairy farms, workers often tear newborn calves away from their mothers within hours of birth.

In the egg industry, farms—even the ones labeled “cage-free”—typically confine hens to no more than a square foot of space and cut part of their beaks off with a hot blade. Once their bodies wear out and they’re no longer deemed profitable, workers kill them on site or send them off to slaughter.

The meat industry confines mother pigs to cramped metal crates for their entire adult lives—and a PETA exposé of a pig farm revealed that piglets slowly died just out of reach of their distraught mothers.

Ask yourself: Would I wish this fate on my mother? Or my sister? Or me?”

Join Jett and Help End the Meat, Egg, and Dairy Industries’ Dirty Deeds

Every animal is someone. You can speak up for all the sensitive animals used and killed for their flesh, eggs, and milk simply going vegan. Order a free vegan starter kit today:

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