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Animal rights group to launch campaign against KFC


NORFOLK, Va. -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday it is launching a campaign against KFC to highlight alleged animal-rights abuses by the fried-chicken chain.
The Norfolk-based animal rights group said it has tried for nearly two years to persuade KFC's parent company, Yum Brands Inc. of Louisville, Ky., to change the way it raises and slaughters chickens.
PETA said that because those negotiations failed, it will launch a campaign to put public pressure on the company.
Yum denied PETA's allegations.

"We require all of our suppliers to follow welfare guidelines, developed by us with leading experts on our animal welfare advisory council," the company said. "Our suppliers are receiving unannounced audits at their poultry facilities throughout the year. Failure to comply with our strict guidelines would result in termination of our supplier agreement, if remedial action is not taken."
PETA said it wants an end to "crude and ineffective electric stunning and throat-slitting" of chickens, and called for improvements in the conditions under which the chickens are raised. The organization said the birds should be allowed more space.
Yum, which was created in 1997 as a spinoff of food businesses formerly owned by PepsiCo, also owns the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver restaurant chains.
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On the Net:
http://www.peta.org
http://www.yum.com
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= boring. i prefer popeye's, anyway.

peta =

Go PETA! Taking on the fast food industry one chain at a time. . .gotta love that.

Doves,
Mel!ssa

peta's doin their stuff 4 an awesome cause, but u gotta admit...sometimes they do it 2 the point of fanatical, mindless claw-bearing.

I love those boxes of Popcorn Chicken at KFC. That's the only thing I order when I go there

POOK said:

Aren't you a monkey? Monkeys don't eat chicken, do they?

Pook, nobody really relishes being famous for being an animal rights wacko. It's not a very good kind of fame. Most people hate us.

All we're trying to do is make the world less nasty and heartless and cruel, dammit.

Doves,
Mel!ssa

Is there actually any chicken in KFC?

I thought it was all rat. If not, why do i keep picking out rat tails?

bkw said:

I heard it's all monkey.

s'allright...round here we call it Kentucky Fried Mice

It's actually not called Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore.

Urban legend has it that it is because they aren't actually serving chicken, so that is why they had to change the name.

Some say it's genetic freak pigeons, others say that maybe it's Muskrat (tastes like chicken).

Maybe PETA should be concerned with something else, like children being sold into slavery around the world. How about the growing number of starving? or a half dozen other things that are far worse than KFC.

2the9s said:

Look out POOK!!! Watch out for the Colonel.

bkw said:

Would seem to be just the tip of iceberg on unseen slaughterhouse horrors. Surely there's shadier stuff happening than a big company who have to watch their backs. How can such things even be policed? Days an investigator is sent in will run very differently to the normal routine.