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Why KFC?
PETA is asking KFC to eliminate the worst abuses that chickens suffer on
the factory farms and in the slaughterhouses of its suppliers, including
live scalding, life-long crippling, and painful debeaking. Click
here to learn more about PETA’s demands.
Chickens are inquisitive and interesting animals who are thought to be as
intelligent as cats, dogs, and even primates. When in their natural surroundings,
rather than on factory farms, they form friendships and social hierarchies,
recognize one another, care for their young, and enjoy a full life of dustbathing,
making nests, roosting in trees, and more.
The more than 850 million chickens raised each year for KFC’s
restaurants aren’t able to do any of these things. They are
crammed by the tens of thousands into sheds that stink of ammonia
fumes from accumulated waste and given barely enough room to move
(each bird lives in a space about the size of a sheet of paper). They
routinely suffer broken bones from being bred to be top-heavy, being
subjected to callous handling (workers roughly grab birds by their
legs and stuff them into crates), and being shackled upside-down at
slaughterhouses. Chickens are often still fully conscious when their
throats are cut and when they are dumped into tanks of scalding-hot
water to remove their feathers. When they’re killed, chickens
are still babies, not yet 2 months old out of a natural life span
of more than 10 years.
In May 2001, KFC’s parent company, Yum! Brands, assured PETA that
it intended to “raise the bar” on animal welfare, but to date,
KFC has done nothing to address the most egregious animal cruelty in the
chicken industry. We need your help to convince KFC to take some key steps
to reduce the worst suffering. Click here for
a brief history of PETA's campaign against KFC.
Click
here to support PETA’s work in behalf of the factory-farmed animals
who are suffering for KFC and other fast-food restaurants.
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