Teachers and parents are being encouraged to give outdated nursery rhymes animal-friendly updates.
Animal rights group Peta argue that in the same way old songs and fairytales have been changed to replace language that is sexist, racist and insensitive, nursery rhymes also need to be updated to remove language which 'encourages cruelty to animals'.
Peta said: "Attitudes toward animals have changed a lot in the hundreds of years since many nursery rhymes were written.
