August 2011
PETA alerted officials to a YouTube video showing two schoolgirls in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, torturing a hen to death. The footage depicts the girls throwing and kicking a hen back and forth, and at the end of the video, the hen appears to be unconscious. The girls have been identified, criminal charges of cruelty to animals have been filed against them, and the video has been removed from YouTube.
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”
— Ingrid Newkirk, PETA Founder and co-author of Animalkind
