Actor Adah Sharma Hosted PETA India’s Christmas Lunch for Rescued Chickens
PETA India – with the help of film star Adah Sharma – threw a Christmas party for chickens on Wednesday, 23 December, the day before Christmas Eve. We had rescued some hens from slaughter, but before they could head to their new sanctuary home, they enjoyed a festive lunch of sweet corn, fruit, and other foods that they love, all at a table beautifully decorated for Christmas.
An estimated 1 million chickens are killed for food every four hours in India. As seen in PETA India’s exposé “Glass Walls”, their throats are often cut while they’re still conscious. They are raised in crowded, filthy sheds and are bred and given drugs to grow so big, so fast that they often collapse under their own weight. At around 6 weeks of age, they’re transported to slaughterhouses, where their throats are slit with dull knives.
A long-time PETA India supporter, Sharma previously starred as a mermaid in the group’s “Try to Relate to Who Is on Your Plate” campaign, called for an end to horse-drawn carriages in Mumbai, caged herself in an appeal for everyone to let birds fly free, and starred in the group’s first-ever vegan fashion lookbook.
