‘Will You Kill ME at Six Weeks?!’ Asks PETA’s Sky-High Baby Chick in Pro-Life Alabama

For Immediate Release:
May 9, 2025

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Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382

Make a choice—for chicks! A pair of sky-high messages has risen near churches in Alabama, which has one of the strictest laws in the country against abortion and which ranks second in “broiler” chicken production. The appeals remind everyone that chickens are only about six weeks old when they’re murdered for food and are a plea for people to consider no longer eating them or any animal, since not only chicks, but pigs, cows, and turkeys are also killed young for nothing more than a fleeting taste.

“Eating meat stops a beating heart, usually a baby’s,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges anyone who cares about the right to life to save other living beings by going vegan. And for those who are ‘pro-choice,’ now’s the time to choose vegan.”

Mother hens chirp to their babies while they’re in the shell, and the chicks peep back, forming a deep bond before the chicks are even born. Chickens sent to slaughterhouses are killed when mechanized blades slit their throats—often while they’re still conscious—and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks.

PETA’s billboards are located near 6314 Vaughn Rd. (by the intersection with Festival Drive) and at 10270 AL-126.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness and free vegan starter kits for anyone looking to make the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.