Thousands Join PETA in Opposing Chicken Prison

For Immediate Release:

April 22, 2016

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Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327, ext 222; [email protected]

THOUSANDS JOIN PETA IN OPPOSING CHICKEN PRISON

More Than 2,500 Agree: Authorities Should Stand With Citizens and Call Off Potential Farm

Nottinghamshire – A new chicken farm that would condemn 250,000 chickens at any one time to lives of misery could be built in Nottinghamshire – and in response, thousands of people are joining PETA in urging the Newark and Sherwood District Council to reject the proposal. In addition to causing cruelty to animals on a massive scale, a farm of this kind would likely have many negative effects on the local area, including noise from high-velocity roof fans, increased traffic from heavy goods vehicles driving through narrow village streets, and the generation of enormous quantities of environmental pollutants such as manure and toxic chemicals. Contamination of water supplies could also have a negative impact on wildlife.

“The citizens of Nottinghamshire have spoken, and the Newark and Sherwood District Council should heed their concerns for the environment, the health of their community and animal welfare”, says PETA Director Mimi Bekhechi. “PETA is joining them in calling for this plan to be scrapped, sparing hundreds of thousands of birds a lifetime of suffering.”

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – has documented that chickens who are used for food are fed a steady diet of antibiotics and bred to grow so large that their legs often break under their own weight. At the abattoir, they are often shackled upside down and have their throats slit, while others are scalded – sometimes alive – in defeathering tanks.

To sign PETA’s letter to the council, click here. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk.

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