PETA challenges Hooters’ Newcastle restaurant. They cite animal cruelty and logo hypocrisy as concerns.
PETA wants Hooters to remove chicken and serve plant-based food. PETA condemns cruel chicken farming practices, explaining chickens receive antibiotics in farms and grow abnormally large, suffering injuries.
PETA says chickens suffer like any other bird and find it hypocritical to use an owl logo while Hooters profits from chicken wings. Vegan wings help the environment, according to PETA, and don’t contribute to bird flu.
PETA released a video showing people’s reactions when they thought they ate owl wings instead of chicken. PETA calls this ‘speciesism,’ the belief that humans choose which animals to eat. Some find Hooters’ marketing approach controversial.
Newcastle Women’s Street Watch is also upset because they struggle to find a safe space for women while Hooters found a prime location easily; they highlighted this inequality on Facebook.