James Cromwell, the Oscar nominated star of the movie Babe, along with five other protesters, was arrested today after entering a Vienna Wendy's and urging the lunchtime crowd to eat elsewhere until Wendy's stops confining sows to stalls so small that the animals cannot turn around and buying chickens with broken bones caused by mishandling. The actor and activists remain in police custody.
Wendy's has failed to answer letters and calls from PETA asking the company to:
· stop allowing chicken-catchers to break the birds' wings by slinging them into crates like inanimate objects
· require suppliers to stop genetically modifying chickens, which causes them to suffer chronic leg pain and collapse from overweight
· stop buying from factory farms where sows are tethered by the neck in cement stalls too small for them even to turn around in
· stop allowing its suppliers to cut off the beaks of baby chicks with a hot blade and to starve hens for up to two weeks in order to force them to produce more eggs
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