Animal Rights Group Hands Out Super Bowl 'Vegan' Chicken Nuggets

LEVITTOWN, NY—There is a national chicken wing shortage threatening this year's Super Bowl Sunday, but for this group of Long Islanders, it's not a problem.

On Tuesday, members of Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) handed out 1,500 free "beyond chicken" nuggets to KFC diners in Levittown and Patchogue, an event designed to encourage Long Islanders to try plant-based foods this Super Bowl, LION's founder John Di Leonardo told Patch.

"In 2020, Americans consumed roughly 1.4 billion chicken wings during Super Bowl LIV—that’s 175 million pounds of wings, or approximately 350 million chickens killed. We're choosing to give out 1,500 nuggets because this is the number of chickens killed for their flesh every second," LION said in a statement.

LION rescues animals like abandoned domestic ducks, cats and more, across Long Island but wanted to demonstrate that eating a vegan diet can "help save animals without ever going on a rescue."

KFC launched its line of plant-based nuggets called Beyond Fried Chicken Nuggets in limited test runs in previous years, and this year is making the nuggets available nation-wide but for a limited time.

According to one online review, the KFC vegan nuggets taste like...chicken.

Have you tried KFC's new plant-based chicken nuggets? What's going to be on your Super Bowl plate this Sunday?