Sometimes, you've just got to hand it to PETA. Yes, they do a lot of crazy shit, some of it verging on the alarming. But it's nice when it's deserved, and I was amused and impressed to hear they'd sent a note to supermodel Naomi Campbell this week, asking her to have a good think about the connection between her balding hairline and the plight of animals killed for their own hair, which is used for the fur coats she insists on wearing (and no, I don't know what the boot's doing there either).
Follow the jump for a full transcript of the organisation's 'bald' request to Ms. Campbell...
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The lovely people at Compassion in World Farming dropped me a line today to remind us all about Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall's imminent challenge to Tesco, tabled for the chain's AGM this afternoon. So as you chomp away at your egg mayo sarnie, the fate of chickens all over the UK is at stake.
You may remember that Hugh was asking for support from the public earlier in the month to raise the necessary funds for the rare priviledge of talking to Tesco about chickens. The good news is that he's made it, and can now go ahead and put his resolution to the Tesco board. The resolution calls on Tesco to adopt RSPCA Freedom Food standards or equivalent as the minimum for their standard chickens.
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Scots singing sensation KT Tunstall is the latest celebrity to be welcomed into the PETA clan, and she's chosen to focus on the the plight of birds destined to become KFC nuggets for her first campaign.
PETA recently reported that KFC in Canada had brought in a new, more stringent animal welfare policy, but there are currently no plans to implement similar changes in the UK. In a bid to encourage them to follow Canada's example, KT wrote a letter to every single KFC restaurant manager in Scotland, along with a DVD, pressuring the company to stop its suppliers' worst abuses of chickens.
Follow the jump to read KT's letter to KFC managers in full.
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Chicken saviour Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is currently engaged in an interesting challenge against his old friend Mr. Tesco. He's going to need a hefty sum of cash to get round this one, and is asking members of the public for help. So why should the man who famously sells chickens for £15 be needing your money?
It all began when HFW submitted a resolution to be presented at Tesco's AGM at the end of the month covering animal welfare. But unhappy about having its record exposed, Tesco rather arrogantly wants to charge him £86,888 to get the paperwork out to the shareholders before Wednesday. Hugh has responded by auctioning various prizes on his website and hoping to make the deadline. He's already paid £30,000 out of his own pocket, but needs to make up the rest from donations. Follow the jump for instructions on how you can contribute.
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It's easy to buy free range eggs in the supermarket: just read the label, look out for those magic words, and hey presto, you've got free range poached, scrambled or boiled eggs for breakfast. But what about all the products containing eggs that we forget are there?
The Good Egg Awards is working to clear up this confusion with a high profile ceremony rewarding those companies that only use free range eggs in their products. Held annually by Compassion in World Farming, the event focuses on products from all over the EU, and previous winners have included Marks & Spencer, Pret a Manger, Sainsbury's and even McDonalds. This year's winners will be announced on Tuesday 29th April.
More shoppers than ever are prepared to 'shell out' for free range eggs, following Jamie Oliver's expose on battery farming, it emerged last week. For the first time in supermarket history, free range outsold battery, with 51% of sales.
In 'Jamie's Fowl Dinners', which aired in January, Jamie Oliver highlighted some of the cruel practices of intensive chicken farming, and captured the nation's hearts by putting live, fluffy chicks on the dinner table - only to slaughter the male ones mimicking what goes on in egg farms every day. This was reflected in February's eggs sales, from which the figures were taken.
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There are people all over the UK getting up in arms about a seemingly recent problem inflicted on us by our postmen: the dropping of red rubber bands on our pavements, garden paths and porches. In one unfortunate case, one of the bands was seen around the neck of a duck. So what's going on?
Rumours about postmen dropping the items in order to 'find their way home' have circulated, but more worryingly, some postmen have claimed off-the-record that they are advised to drop the rubber bands which they are told will 'biodegrade'; a theory we are going to conduct an experiment to test in coming weeks. We've got a genuine, Post Office issue rubber band immersed in water in our kitchen and will be monitoring its progress.
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Sometimes, you've just got to hand it to PETA. Yes, they do a lot of crazy shit, some of it verging on the alarming. But it's nice when it's deserved, and I was amused and impressed to hear they'd sent a note to supermodel Naomi Campbell this week, asking her to have a good think about the connection between her balding hairline and the plight of animals killed for their own hair, which is used for the fur coats she insists on wearing (and no, I don't know what the boot's doing there either).
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