Protesters Take to the Streets Against Chicken Chain for Ignoring Animal Suffering and Funding Anti-Gay Initiatives
For Immediate Release:
July 31, 2012
Contact:
Shakira Croce 202-483-7382
Los Angeles -- Holding signs that read, "Don't Eat Chickens OR Cows: Go Vegan!" and "Chick-fil-A Is Anti-Gay!" members of PETA and the LGBT community will converge on a Los Angeles Chick-fil-A on Wednesday to protest the company's support of the egregious abuse of millions of chickens killed for its menu and its donations of millions of dollars to anti-gay organizations.
When: Wednesday, August 1, 12 noon
Where: Outside Chick-fil-A, 6750 Sunset Blvd. (near the intersection with N. Highland Avenue), Los Angeles
"Chick-fil-A customers should deny this company their business as long as it denies gay people respect and chickens protection from blatant cruelty," says PETA campaigner Virginia Fort. "Being a homophobe and continuing to buy chickens from suppliers who sometimes scald birds to death don't fly in the 21st century."
Chickens are inquisitive animals with complex social structures. Their cognitive abilities are in some cases more advanced than those of cats, dogs, and even some primates. But chickens raised and killed for Chick-fil-A are confined by the thousands to filthy sheds and are killed using an archaic slaughter method that causes the animals to sustain broken bones, have their throats cut while they're still conscious, and be scalded to death in defeathering tanks.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.