“Please adopt PETA’s simple proposals for improving the lives and deaths of KFC’s chickens. You have the ability and opportunity to decrease the shocking abuse of these interesting, sensitive individuals, and until you do, I’ll be telling my friends, family and fans to avoid KFC in India.” – Anoushka Shankar, in a letter to Pete Bassi, Chair of Yum! Restaurants International

KFC Does
Chickens Wrong

PETA’s growing list of international celebrities who have spoken out against KFC’s abusive treatment of chickens includes actor Pamela Anderson, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama and rock legend Sir Paul McCartney.

What’s got PETA – and all these celebrities – clucking mad at KFC? The 850 million chickens who end up in KFC’s buckets each year suffer the worst abuses factory farming has to offer: They are drugged and bred to grow so large, so fast, that many suffer crippling injuries when their hearts, lungs and legs give out under the enormous weight of their bodies; many chicks have their beaks sliced off with a hot blade within moments of birth; and at slaughter, KFC’s chickens throats are slit, or their bodies are dunked into scalding-hot water – often while they are still able to feel pain.

PETA is asking KFC to eliminate these abuses by changing the way it treats its chickens on the farm, during transport and at slaughter. But to date, KFC has yet to make any steps toward eliminating these egregious abuses, despite the recommendations of its own animal welfare advisors. Read more. >>

Celebrity Endorsements

“If KFC suppliers treated dogs or cats the way they treat chickens, they could be charged with the crime of cruelty to animals. I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates. These remarkable animals are deserving of at least a little kindness.” – Sir Paul McCartney, in a letter to David Novak, CEO of KFC

Pam Anderson KFC Video

The Hidden Lives of Chickens