Billboard to Pay Tribute to Chickens Killed in Barn Blaze

PETA Memorial Will Encourage People to Help Prevent More Animals’ Deaths by Going Vegan

For Immediate Release:
December 30, 2019

Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382

In honor of the chickens who died when a barn caught fire on Enterprise Road on December 19, PETA plans to place a billboard in the area pointing out who’s responsible for the birds’ deaths: everyone who hasn’t gone vegan.

“The pain and fear that these trapped chickens must have felt as smoke and flames engulfed them is impossible to imagine,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges everyone to prevent more animals from suffering and dying by opting for delicious vegan meals.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—notes that chickens killed for their flesh are crammed by the tens of thousands into filthy sheds and bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. At slaughterhouses, their throats are cut, often while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks. Each person who goes vegan saves the lives of nearly 200 animals every year.

PETA is planning to place a similar ad in West End, North Carolina, where 19,000 chickens were killed in a barn fire on Thanksgiving.

PETA opposes speciesism, which is the human-supremacist worldview that other species are nothing more than commodities. For more information, please visit PETA.org.