Kentucky Fried Cruelty
Being the largest supplier of factory farmed chickens in the world, KFC is responsible for the painful mass murder of roughly 1 billion birds a year. The birds’ legs and wings often break because they’re bred to be too top-heavy and because workers carelessly shove them into transport crates and shackles. Chickens’ throats are slit and the animals are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water to remove their feathers, often while they are still conscious and able to feel pain. KFC lets frustrated factory-farm and slaughterhouse workers handle live birds, so many of the animals end up being sadistically abused. At a KFC “Supplier of the Year” slaughterhouse in West Virginia, workers were documented tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes, spray-painting their faces, and violently stomping on them. This was discovered more than two years after KFC promised that it was taking animal welfare seriously. KFC hides behind its Animal Welfare Advisory Council, even though five members of the council have resigned in frustration. One of them, Adele Douglass, told the Chicago Tribune that KFC “never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being used.”
Watch the undercover video here.
Take Action!
Contact KFC executives and let them know you think their treatment of chickens is foul:
David Novak, CEO
Yum! Brands
1441 Gardiner Ln.
Louisville, KY 40213
502-874-8300
502-874-8790 (fax)
Gregg Dedrick, President
KFC
1441 Gardiner Ln.
Louisville, KY 40213
502-874-1000
502-874-8291 (fax)
John Bitove, CEO
Priszm Canadian Income Fund
101 Exchange Ave.
Vaughan, ON L4K 5R6
Canada
866-774-7961
416-650-9249 (fax)
Martin Shucker, Managing Director
KFC Restaurants
32 Goldsworth Rd.
Woking GU21 1JT
United Kingdom
01483 717000 01483 717018 (fax)
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Write a letter to the editor
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