Lebanon to Ban Colored Chicks

Photo Credit: Courtesy: Animals Lebanon

It’s very common to buy colored chicks as part of the Easter holiday celebration in Lebanon.

To make the colored birds, vendors throw baby chicks in dye and color them. They’re then sold by street vendors.

Lebanese animal rights activists have been complaining for years about the practice, as the dyes are often poisonous, the conditions the birds are kept in are horrendous, and more often than not the chicks are mistreated, killed or abandoned by their owners once the dye wears off or the chicken begins to grow up.

Beirut’s governor has forbidden the sale of the colored chicks, and the Lebanese government is working to make it illegal in Lebanon, according to a report in the Lebanon Daily Star.