{"id":119331,"date":"2026-02-20T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119331\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:03:19","slug":"hell-on-wheels-traveling-exhibit-coming-to-erie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119331\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHell on Wheels\u201d Traveling Exhibit Coming to Erie | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"PETA Pig Truck.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"975\" height=\"731\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Photo Credits: PETA<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHell on Wheels\u201d pig truck is a traveling exhibit that exposes the meat industry\u2019s advertisements of pigs on their way to slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The traveling exhibit will be in Perry Square amongst various other Erie eateries on display to the public on Feb. 23 at 12 p.m. The truck plays squealing noises and a looping message encouraging people to go vegan.<\/p>\n<p>PETA has contacted several restaurants through the trucks route to encourage owners to include more vegan options on their menus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery piece of pepperoni or ham sandwich was once a thinking, feeling being who suffered a terrifying trip to a violent death,\u201d says PETA President Tracy Reiman. \u201cPETA\u2019s \u2018Hell on Wheels\u2019 truck is a reminder to everyone that the meat industry is a killer, and cruelty to animals isn\u2019t just hitting a dog\u2014it\u2019s failing to choose vegan meals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credits: PETA The \u201cHell on Wheels\u201d pig truck is a traveling exhibit that exposes the meat industry\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56560,136,138,137,56558,56559,56557,17562],"class_list":{"0":"post-119331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-animal-rights","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-hell-on-wheels","13":"tag-meat-industry","14":"tag-peta","15":"tag-vegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}