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PETA hits out at Bandung mayor for 'chickenisation' policy

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BANDUNG, Indonesia (ANN): Animal rights organisation People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is lambasting the Bandung administration in West Java for handing out chicks to schoolchildren to get them off their phones, citing 'animal cruelty' and 'potential health risks' for the kids.

Nazrul Muhammad, a student from Cempaka Arum Elementary School, showing the chicks that were distributed by Bandung Mayor Oded M. Danial in the Bandung on Nov. 19. - JP

Bandung Mayor Oded Muhammad Danial recently introduced a policy called 'chickenisation', aiming to eradicate gadget addiction among students and to teach them about responsibility through taking care of animals. PETA’s senior vice president for international campaigns, Jason Baker, recently wrote a letter addressed to Oded, demanding him to scrap the policy, as he said that using chicks as a teaching method to keep schoolkids away from gadgets was both “reckless and wrong”.

The group argued that handing out chicks to children without ensuring whether they could provide a safe environment for the animals told them that “It's OK to treat living, feeling beings as nothing more than disposable toys.”

 

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