Win a Prize for Telling KFC What You Think!
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. Learn more about PETA’s demands.
You can help the chickens by joining the Street Team and then writing a letter to KFC – and you can win a prize for doing so. (Sorry, the prize for this particular mission is offered only to people who live in India. If you live outside India, check out what you can do to help animals for prizes at www.peta2.com.) Read on.
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, recognise one another, care for their young and enjoy a full life of dust-bathing, 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 are 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, from being subjected to callous handling (when workers roughly grab birds by their legs and stuff them into crates) and from being shackled upside-down at slaughterhouses. Chickens are often still 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.
Write to KFC
The more letters that KFC gets from people who are outraged by its inhumane treatment of chickens, the more likely the company is to change. You don’t need to be the next Shakespeare to write a letter! Even just half a page asking KFC to make improvements in animals’ lives will have a huge impact:
Mr Rajan Kilachand, Chair
Dodsal Corporation Pvt Ltd
303/304, Peninsula Tower
1 A Wing, GanpatRao Kadam Marg
Peninsula Corporate Park
Lower Parel
Mumbai 400013
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www.petaDishoom.com
PO Box 28260
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049
India
StreetTeamIndia@petaindia.org
