A controversial public exhibition drawing parallels between the Nazi Holocaust and meat-eating is to go on show in Dublin next week, despite having been banned from several UK cities.
Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is to exhibit its Holocaust on Your Plate display in Temple Bar as part of an international tour of the United States and Europe.
Ireland will be the 14th country to host the graphic display, which consists of eight six-metre square panels, each showing photographs of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes next to pictures from the Nazi death camps.
When the display went on show in London it was confiscated by police after complaints from the Greater London Authority. Other bans were enforced in Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.
Peta campaign co-ordinator Mr Matt Prescott, members of whose family were killed in the Nazi Holocaust, said: "Society is in denial that innocents are being tortured in their own backyards, and that is the very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible - the belief that we can do anything we want to those we decide are different or 'inferior'.
"We are asking people to bring a deep, all-encompassing compassion into their hearts and onto their tables by embracing a diet that respects other forms of life."
A spokeswoman for Temple Bar Properties confirmed it had hired out Temple Bar Square to Peta between noon and 2 p.m. next Monday. She added, "we are neither curator or censor of any exhibition in Temple Bar."
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