Photos: PETA’s ‘Fast Food Workers’ Unveil ‘Birds’ Remains’ Outside Popeyes Opening

Photos: PETA’s ‘Fast Food Workers’ Unveil ‘Birds’ Remains’ Outside Popeyes Opening

Southend-on-Sea, Essex – Today, Popeyes patrons’ eyes were popping during the chain’s opening in Southend, when a pair of PETA supporters dressed as fast-food employees in aprons and hats opened a giant “takeaway box” revealing a grisly sight: “chicken” heads, feet, and other discarded body parts under the words, “Here is the Rest of Your Fried Chicken. Go Vegan.”

Images are also available here.

“Every chicken is an individual who feels love, joy, pain, and fear, and they don’t want to die for a Popeyes meal deal any more than we would,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA urges everyone to give birds a break by leaving them off their plates and stands ready to help with free vegan starter kits.”

Chickens can distinguish between more than 100 faces of their own species, have full-color vision, and experience rapid eye movement sleep, which means they dream just like we do. Yet chickens killed for their flesh are crammed into severely crowded, filthy sheds and bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. At abattoirs, chickens’ throats are often cut while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks.

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 PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

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

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