A GROUP of animal welfare campaigners are organising a protest against the treatment of chickens by a major high street supermarket.

This weekend Compassion in World Farming members will be calling on Tesco to "stop being rotten to chickens" in the hope of getting the national supermarket to adopt improved animal welfare policies.

Cally Hill, who is organising the demo outside the Tesco Metro store on New George Street, said: "Targeting Tesco is important because Tesco are the largest supermarket and yet while other supermarkets are pledging to go cage-free in all their whole eggs or products with eggs in, Tesco is still refusing to do this and is staying locked in the past in their support of battery cages."

The campaigners will be outside the store, talking to consumers about their choice of egg and handing out free supermarket shopping guides to help shoppers when looking for higher welfare products.

The stop being rotten to chickens demonstration is taking place between 12pm and 2pm on Saturday.

For more information visit www.ciwf.org.