For Immediate Release:
September 21, 2021
Contact:
Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Salisbury, Md. â PETA is bringing Perdue Farms executivesâand patrons of restaurants that sell bird-based mealsâface to face with whoâs on their plates, through billboards that just went up on Main and, fittingly, Byrd streets.
âChickens are smart, social, sensitive animals who think, feel, and value their own lives, just as we do,â says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. âPETAâs billboards encourage everyone to think about the face behind the food and opt for tasty vegan meats that let birds keep the wings nature gave them.â
Perdue is notorious for cramming tens of thousands of chickens into filthy sheds reeking of ammonia fumes from accumulated waste, conditions in which disease can spread quickly. The birds are bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. At the slaughterhouse, their throats are cut, often while theyâre still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks.
PETAâwhose motto reads, in part, that âanimals are not ours to eatââopposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETAâs newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
The billboards are located at 419 E. Main St. and 401 Byrd St., both less than a mile from Perdue Farms and near Royal Farms, Arbyâs, Subway, Back Street Grill, MayaBellaâs Pizza & Wings, Sub Runners, Pinches Tipsy Tacos, and many other meaty eateries.
Source: Peta.org