PETA Pigeon Racing Protest Windsor

A bandaged giant pigeon holds a sign reading ‘End Pigeon-Racing Cruelty’ at a PETA UK protest outside Windsor Castle on 1st July 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Animal rights charity PETA UK is calling on the Queen, who is currently isolating at Windsor Castle, to cut ties with pigeon racing following a PETA US investigation which revealed that all eight birds sent by the Queen to participate in the 2020 South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race SAMDPR died in quarantine and that fewer than a quarter of the birds from all over the world entered in the race subsequently complete it.

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A bandaged giant pigeon holds a sign reading ‘End Pigeon-Racing Cruelty’ at a PETA UK protest outside Windsor Castle on 1st July 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Animal rights charity PETA UK is calling on the Queen, who is currently isolating at Windsor Castle, to cut ties with pigeon racing following a PETA US investigation which revealed that all eight birds sent by the Queen to participate in the 2020 South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race SAMDPR died in quarantine and that fewer than a quarter of the birds from all over the world entered in the race subsequently complete it.