Chichester Festival Theatre Urged to Take Animals Off the Menu for ‘Three Little Pigs’

Chichester Festival Theatre Urged to Take Animals Off the Menu for ‘Three Little Pigs’

Chichester – After learning that The Three Little Pigs is coming to the Chichester Festival Theatre, PETA rushed a letter (available here) to Kathy Bourne, executive theatre director, urging her to honour the beloved little pigs by taking animals off the venue’s café menu during the run – or even better, for good. As an added incentive, the group has offered to supply vegan ham sandwiches for the opening show.

“It would be weird to encourage children to cheer the pigs as they escape being eaten by the wolf in your theatre and then invite them to stuff their mouths with pig flesh in your restaurant,” says PETA Vice President of Programmes Dawn Carr. “You can bypass this whole ugly business and cater to children’s natural empathy by serving wholesome pig-friendly products, such as La Vie Plant-Based Ham or Taifun Tofu Wieners.”

In the UK, farmers clip or grind down many piglets’ teeth and cut their tails off without any painkillers. After females give birth, they’re confined to farrowing crates so small that they can’t even turn around, let alone fulfil their strong urge to build a nest as they would naturally do. They’re forcibly impregnated over and over again, and each litter of piglets is torn away from them after only a few weeks and transported to fattening pens before eventually being sent to slaughter.

PETA has released two eyewitness exposés – which can be viewed here and here – revealing that pigs languish in shocking conditions on UK farms.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

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

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