PETA Calls for Eggs to Be Swapped for Spuds in 150-Year-Old Easter Event

PETA want Northerners to roll spuds downhill instead of eggs

If the above headline makes no sense to you, it’s because you’re unfamiliar with the tradition of egg rolling. This is a game played around Easter in which children roll hard-boiled eggs down a big hill. The reason you’ve never heard of it is because it’s localised to Scotland and the Lancashire city of Preston. It’s hitting the news now, because PETA have stepped in to ask that we use potatoes instead of eggs. And as a Prestonian myself, I want…

PETA calls for eggs to be swapped for spuds in 150-year-old Easter event

PETA urges Preston City Council to swap eggs for potatoes at the historic Easter egg rolling event in Avenham and Miller Parks, citing animal welfare

Peta tells council to BAN Easter egg rolling and use potatoes instead

Animal rights organisation Peta has urged Preston Council to swap eggs for potatoes at its traditional Easter Monday celebration in Avenham Park, scheduled for April 6.The charity is pressing the local authority to "modernise" the long-running event, which traces its origins to the 19th century, over welfare concerns linked to hen's egg and milk chocolate production.Jennifer White from Peta argued rolling potatoes instead would deliver "all of t…