Baby Bird Begs ‘Let Me Keep My Wings!’ in South London Bus Blitz, Courtesy of PETA
27 June 2025
Baby Bird Begs ‘Let Me Keep My Wings!’ in South London Bus Blitz, Courtesy of PETA
South London – Stop with the chicken shops! PETA ads featuring an adorable chick imploring humans to spare her life by going vegan have appeared on the sides of double-decker buses running through Croydon, Streatham and Brixton, right in the middle of the city’s “Chicken Valley,” which is overrun with fried chicken vendors, including Morley’s, Wingstop, Popeyes, and Chicken Cottage.
More photos are available here. Credit: Harvey Giles Photography.
“Every chicken takeaway represents the grim existence and violent death for a gentle bird who was killed at just 6 weeks old,” says PETA Vice President of Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “PETA urges Londoners to let birds live and choose a delicious vegan chicken meal instead.”
Chickens can recognise the faces of more than 100 other chickens; communicate with at least 30 unique vocalisations; establish complex social hierarchies; and roost together companionably. Yet those killed for their flesh are crammed into filthy sheds, bred to be supersized, and forced to live in their own waste – and the runoff from these operations pollutes the environment and poisons local wildlife. At abattoirs, chickens’ throats are often cut while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks.
PETA and its supporters successfully urged KFC to offer a tasty vegan chicken option, and other chicken chains, like Chicken Shop and Slim Chickens, have followed. The animal protection group is calling on more vendors to spare birds and meet the demand for tasty, animal-friendly food on the go.
This month, PETA also erected a sky-high vegan billboard, reading “I Want You To Change” above a Rooster’s Spot chicken shop in Stockwell.
Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year, dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint, and reduces their own risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity. PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help those looking to make the switch.
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 PETAon Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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