KFC's House of Horror - The movie

From: Gluteus Maximus (legion_at_ceaserus.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:58:24 +0100

KFC's House of Horror
The video is almost beyond description—workers at a KFC slaughterhouse
stomp, kick, and slam birds against walls. How bad does it have to get
before KFC changes the way it treats chickens? Watch now.

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=pilgrims_web

On July 20, 2004, PETA released the results of an undercover
investigation into a KFC chicken slaughterhouse in Moorefield, W.Va.,
where workers were caught on video stomping birds, kicking them, and
slamming them against floors and walls. Workers ripped the animals'
beaks off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and
mouths, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed their bodies so hard
that the birds expelled feces.

The investigation was conducted at this location because it was the
site of a KFC "Supplier of the Year" Award ceremony, and PETA wanted
to see the "best" that a KFC supplier had to offer. This
slaughterhouse is run by Pilgrim's Pride, the second-largest chicken
company in the U.S., after Tyson Foods.

Animal-welfare experts are in agreement that the cruelty at this KFC
supplier is reprehensible. Colorado State University professor of
animal science, biomedical sciences, and philosophy, university
distinguished professor, and university bioethicist Dr. Bernard Rollin
writes, "I can unequivocally state that the behavior I saw exemplified
in [this] videotape was totally unacceptable. … The tape showed
evidence of a work force that apparently failed to recognize that
chickens are living sentient beings capable of feeling pain and
distress." Dr. Temple Grandin, perhaps the industry's leading
farmed-animal welfare expert, writes, "The behavior of the plant
employees was atrocious," and asserts that even though she has toured
poultry facilities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New
Zealand, France, the Netherlands, and the U.K., the video showed "the
WORST employee behavior I have ever seen in a poultry plant."
University of Guelph professor of applied ethology and university
chair in animal welfare Dr. Ian Duncan writes, "This tape depicts
scenes of the worst cruelty I have ever witnessed against chickens. …
and it is extremely hard to accept that this is occurring in the
United States of America." University of California at Davis School of
Veterinary Medicine graduate and avian veterinarian Dr. Laurie
Siperstein-Cook writes, "In NO case can the behavior of the workers be
considered a necessary or acceptable way of killing or stunning
chickens."

Click here
http://www.kfccruelty.com/addresses.asp
 for addresses you can use to write to KFC officials and let them know
that such abuse of animals cannot be tolerated.
Politely urge them to adopt
http://www.kfccruelty.com/animals.asp
 PETA's recommended animal-welfare plan. Please also write to
Pilgrim's Pride officials and politely ask them to adopt
http://www.kfccruelty.com/pdfs/kfc14.pdf
 controlled-atmosphere killing of chickens as a way of eliminating
such abuses in the future:

Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, Chair
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
110 S. Texas St.
Pittsburg, TX 75686
903-855-1000
903-856-7505 (fax)
corpcomm@pilgrimspride.com

But the best thing you can do to help spare animals from such torture
is to stop eating them and, thus, stop supporting the industry that
allows such cruelty to occur. Click here for a free vegetarian starter
kit,
http://www.vegetarianstarterkit.com/
 and click here for free vegetarian recipes to help get you started.

http://www.petaeats.com/index.asp

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