Photo: Giant Chicken Pleads With Sheffield Wing Fest Goers, ‘I Can’t Live Without My Wings’
17 October 2024
Photo: Giant Chicken Pleads With Sheffield Wing Fest Goers, ‘I Can’t Live Without My Wings’
Sheffield – Ahead of Wing Fest later this month – for which 45,000 intelligent, gentle birds will be killed and cut up so that festival-goers can eat their wings – a message from PETA has appeared streets away from the event site at Peddler Market. The provocative appeal features a giant chicken who tells passers-by, “You Can Live Without Chicken Wings. I Can’t,” and urges them to try vegan instead.
The billboard is located at Rutland Road railway bridge, Neepsend, Sheffield, and will be up for one week. High-resolution images are available here. Credit: Timm Cleasby Photography
“Chickens are smart, social animals who feel joy, pain, and fear and don’t want to be chopped up for someone’s meal,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “PETA urges everyone in Yorkshire and beyond to think of the individual behind the wings and try delicious vegan meats instead.”
Chickens killed for their flesh are bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs become crippled under the weight. They are crammed by the tens of thousands into filthy sheds, where they’re forced to live in their own waste. At the slaughterhouse, their throats are often cut while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks. Every person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals each year a miserable life and a terrifying death.
High street chains and local joints are packed with vegan chicken options that are kind to birds and our tastebuds, including KFC’s Vegan Burger and Burger King’s crispy Vegan Royale. Just around the corner from Peddler Market in Kelham Island, epic vegan eatery Church – Temple of Fun is serving Kentucky Fried Cactus wings throughout October, and all chicken burgers and wings on Sheffield-based The Common Room’s menu can be made vegan. PETA has a list of further exciting vegan fried chicken options here.
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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