Video: Londoners Eating Owl Wings?! See Their Reactions

14 October 2024

Video: Londoners Eating Owl Wings?! See Their Reactions

London – “You can’t eat owls.” “That’s disgusting.” “I don’t want to eat Hedwigs.” A new PETA video shows the horrified reactions from Londoners when they learn that the free samples of wings they’re eating aren’t from chickens but from “owls”. Musician and satirist Oli Frost hands out the free wings – which are actually vegan – to passers-by, several of whom spit out the “meat” when Frost tells them it’s from owls. “What is wrong with you?” one disgusted man responds. The video concludes with a stark point: “Owl wings, chicken wings… What’s the difference?”

“Chickens are smart, social, curious birds who don’t want to be carved up and eaten any more than a human would,” says PETA Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen. “PETA urges anyone horrified at the thought of eating owls’ wings to extend that compassion to all animals and go vegan.”

Chickens raised for their flesh are routinely fed antibiotics and bred to grow so large over such a short period of time that their legs often collapse under their own bodyweight. At abattoirs, they’re shackled upside down, their throats are slit, and they’re scalded in defeathering tanks – sometimes while still conscious. Every person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals a year daily suffering and a terrifying death. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help anyone ready to make the switch.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

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