Photos: Chicken or Chaffinch? PETA Points Out There’s No Difference by Serving Up Songbird ‘Wings’

Photos: Chicken or Chaffinch? PETA Points Out There’s No Difference by Serving Up Songbird ‘Wings’

Peterborough – If you wouldn’t eat the wings of a sparrow, a swan, or an owl, why eat a chicken’s wings? That’s the food for thought a PETA supporter dished out today, on World Vegan Day (1 November), in Peterborough, which was recently named the best birdwatching destination in the UK. The display featured a full “menu” of bird-based “dishes”, including crow, sparrow, owl, robin, blue tit, swan, and heron – locally sourced, of course.

Images are available here.

“Chickens recognise their friends, talk to their unhatched babies, and fiercely defend their chicks, and they don’t want to be sliced up and eaten any more than Peterborough’s beloved robins and finches do,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “Birds’ wings are for flying, not frying, and PETA urges anyone horrified by the thought of cooking up songbirds to extend that compassion to all birds, including chickens, and not be an animal-eater.”

Chickens can distinguish among the faces of more than 100 other chickens and communicate with at least 24 unique vocalisations, each with a distinct meaning. Like sparrows and many other wild birds, they roost together and have complex social hierarchies. Yet chickens killed for their flesh are crammed by the tens of thousands into filthy sheds, where they’re forced to live in their own waste. At slaughterhouses, their throats are often cut while they’re still conscious and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

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Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]

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