‘Let Them Keep Their Damn Wings’ Proclaim Pro-Chicken Super Bowl Billboards
PETA Urges Football Fans to Choose Delicious Vegan Game-Day Snacks
For Immediate Release:
January 10, 2018
Contact:
Audrey Shircliff 202-483-7382
Just in time for the Super Bowl, two PETA billboards promoting kindness to chickens have gone up next to some wing-peddling eateries and just blocks from U.S. Bank Stadium. They show a pair of cute chicks next to the words “Let Them Keep Their Damn Wings, OK?” and encourage viewers to go vegan for game day.
The billboards are located on Hennepin Avenue, between 10th and 11th streets, near Domino’s and Pizza Hut.
“Last year, over 300 million birds died for the Super Bowl alone,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s billboards encourage football fans to keep chickens from taking a hit this year by putting into play some spicy vegan wings, loaded vegan nachos, and other delicious cruelty-free snacks.”
As PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—reveals in its “Chicken in Reverse” video, birds 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 the slaughterhouse, their throats are often cut while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
