The next time you call someone a chicken, think again – animal rights activists want the insult banned.
Campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has written to the Oxford English Dictionary, demanding it scrap the definition of chicken as a cowardly or faint-hearted person.
In a letter to chief editor Michael Proffitt, the organisation claims the description is unfair, inaccurate and harmful to the bird’s reputation.
