showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletter Much-loved star of Downton Abbey and Unforgotten Peter Egan recently took a step outside his comfort zone to go undercover inside a UK factory farm.
The 74-year-old was left shocked by the awful conditions that the chickens were forced to live in, calling it “inhumane”. The actor undertook the exploration alongside vegan fried chick*n company and activist brand VFC because he wanted to see for himself how birds live inside typical farms and show the rest of the world too.
Peter arrived at the unnamed Shropshire farm where he went inside a huge barn filled with approximately 25,000 chicks, all just two days old.He immediately saw a dead bird at his feet and another.
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