KFC Boycott Group in Newport
Projo has a story today on a protest by PETA: "Yesterday’s demonstration targeted the Association of KFC Franchisees charter sail aboard a 12-meter race yacht."
"Matthews[PETA] acknowledged that supermarkets also buy from suppliers with inhumane practices, but that shouldn’t condone the mistreatment of the approximately 1 billion chickens KFC serves up every year, she said. The United States franchises, like their counterparts in Canada, should demand that suppliers treat chickens more humanely and offer vegetarian alternatives on its menu, she said.
PETA maintains that KFC suppliers drug chickens in unreasonably cramped quarters to rapidly fatten them up, making the birds so top heavy and unhealthy that they suffer broken legs and heart attacks. The suppliers also slaughter the birds inhumanely, PETA asserts, by slitting their throats while they’re conscious. Some birds that aren’t properly killed get boiled alive during the next process — feather removal.
Matthews said that KFC suppliers could make improvements — including gassing chickens to kill them — that would add just two cents to the cost of a meal."
I'd pay 2 cents more. The only KFC franchise here is in Middletown on East Main Rd.
Thanks to reporter Richard Salit.
"Matthews[PETA] acknowledged that supermarkets also buy from suppliers with inhumane practices, but that shouldn’t condone the mistreatment of the approximately 1 billion chickens KFC serves up every year, she said. The United States franchises, like their counterparts in Canada, should demand that suppliers treat chickens more humanely and offer vegetarian alternatives on its menu, she said.
PETA maintains that KFC suppliers drug chickens in unreasonably cramped quarters to rapidly fatten them up, making the birds so top heavy and unhealthy that they suffer broken legs and heart attacks. The suppliers also slaughter the birds inhumanely, PETA asserts, by slitting their throats while they’re conscious. Some birds that aren’t properly killed get boiled alive during the next process — feather removal.
Matthews said that KFC suppliers could make improvements — including gassing chickens to kill them — that would add just two cents to the cost of a meal."
I'd pay 2 cents more. The only KFC franchise here is in Middletown on East Main Rd.
Thanks to reporter Richard Salit.
1 comment:
I'm involved in a campaign that is (I think) the exact same thing as this. The idea is to get KFC to live up to it's own ethics board's standards for treatment of animals. I think the point is to be realistic about the fact that as long as people eat chicken, there will be KFC. So, let's at least try to get KFC customers demand baseline animal rights. This proposed KFC boycott only takes place once we have enough people committed to act that we know it will work. This way we can get real KFC consumers on board and send a clear message to KFC that even their loyal base is offended. I know this will be unpopular with some, but I think it is a great, pragmatic approach to causing real change. They will be able to look at the numbers growing and know that at a certain point they are going to be losing a lot more that 2 cents per customers.
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