Photos: Vegans ‘Fry’ Kittens Ahead of Bournemouth Wingstop Opening

Photos: Vegans ‘Fry’ Kittens Ahead of Bournemouth Wingstop Opening

Bournemouth – If you wouldn’t eat a kitten, why eat a chicken? That’s the food for thought PETA supporters served up outside the soon-to-be opening Wingstop in Bournemouth, where an activist ‘fried’ lifelike ‘cats’ and offered passers-by “Kentucky Fried Kittens.” The attention-grabbing display challenges speciesism – the misguided belief that some species are more deserving of kindness and protection than others – and urged people to go vegan.

Images and video footage are available here and here.

“Chickens feel joy, fear, pain, and affection just as cats do,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA urges anyone horrified by the thought of eating a kitten to extend that compassion to chickens and all other animals and please, go vegan.”

Chickens are curious, intelligent individuals who form friendships, recognise more than 100 other chickens by sight, dream when they sleep, and care for their young. Yet more than 80 billion chickens are killed for their flesh worldwide every year. Chickens bred for meat have been genetically manipulated to grow so large, so quickly, that many suffer from crippling leg deformities, organ failure, and chronic pain. While chickens can live for more than a decade in nature, those raised for meat are typically slaughtered at around six weeks old. At abattoirs, they’re gassed or electrocuted before having their throats cut.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – points out that when it comes to the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a chicken is a dog is a boy. For more information please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

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

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