PETA has made good on its plan to purchase a billboard to memorialize the thousands of Pure Prairie Poultry (PPP) chickens that died in September after the birds were allegedly left on transport trailers without food or water for five days as temperatures outside rose into the 80s and cooling fans failed.
PETA says PPP’s actions killed a “significant” number of chickens, as confirmed by federal officials. PETA adds that its billboard, located on Highway 18, near 5th Avenue and M Street on the east side of Charles City, “reminds everyone that the victims were thinking, feeling individuals.”
PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a statement, “Chickens died in agony after being abandoned for days without food or water, and the traumatized survivors faced the slaughterhouse knife.”
PETA says the chickens would not have died if everyone adopted a vegan diet, claiming that each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year, dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint, and reduces their risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity.
