Peta objects to 'pig-demeaning' pork pie road name

An animal rights charity has called on Leicestershire County Council to strike Pork Pie Way off a list of potential names for Melton Mowbray's new bypass, branding the suggestion "pig-demeaning".

The Reform UK-run authority ran a public vote, which ended at midnight on Tuesday, to decide the name of the 4.4-mile (7.1km) route around the north and east of the town.

Pork Pie Way is on a shortlist of names because the pies are a speciality of the town's butchers, but the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written to council leader Dan Harrison urging him to choose Vegan Pie Way instead.

Lucy Watson from PETA spoke to BBC Leicester's Ady Dayman.

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