Thursday, January 04, 2007
Protect my chickens
I got to share this letter out of our local paper tonight. It is a classic.
Burger King, Wendy's and McDonald's are all major fast-food chains that have adopted humane standards to ensure the animals they raise for food are treated humanely from birth to death.
But there is one major fast-food chain that has refused to do so, and that is KFC. They have refused to implement humane standards developed by their own animal welfare advisory panel, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
KFC slaughters more than 850 million chickens each year for food in its restaurants, and their chickens suffer tremendously.
Here are just a few of the atrocities:
» Chickens are crammed into warehouses so thickly the ends of their beaks are seared off with a hot blade to prevent fighting. This is done without painkillers.
» They are bred and drugged to grow very quickly; so quickly, in fact, that their hearts and lungs fail and their legs become crippled under their own weight.
» Millions are scalded alive in feather-removal tanks or have their throats slit while they are still conscious.
The chickens don't have a choice, but you do — boycott KFC and all of its subsidiaries.
I got to hand it to this person to treat chicken as human is the stupidest thing ever. They got no feelings and that is a fact. God made them to eat not to give a hotel to. They are not going top fight are they? And they are druged so man can get more meat of them. And to think they might “they kill them when they know it. Chickens are made for man and to eat. Peta ia a bit stupid on this one.
Burger King, Wendy's and McDonald's are all major fast-food chains that have adopted humane standards to ensure the animals they raise for food are treated humanely from birth to death.
But there is one major fast-food chain that has refused to do so, and that is KFC. They have refused to implement humane standards developed by their own animal welfare advisory panel, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
KFC slaughters more than 850 million chickens each year for food in its restaurants, and their chickens suffer tremendously.
Here are just a few of the atrocities:
» Chickens are crammed into warehouses so thickly the ends of their beaks are seared off with a hot blade to prevent fighting. This is done without painkillers.
» They are bred and drugged to grow very quickly; so quickly, in fact, that their hearts and lungs fail and their legs become crippled under their own weight.
» Millions are scalded alive in feather-removal tanks or have their throats slit while they are still conscious.
The chickens don't have a choice, but you do — boycott KFC and all of its subsidiaries.
I got to hand it to this person to treat chicken as human is the stupidest thing ever. They got no feelings and that is a fact. God made them to eat not to give a hotel to. They are not going top fight are they? And they are druged so man can get more meat of them. And to think they might “they kill them when they know it. Chickens are made for man and to eat. Peta ia a bit stupid on this one.
