Worker, Earth, and Animal Liberation! (DAAA KFC Flyer)

Worker, Earth, and Animal Liberation!
Unions for Workers - No Cruelty for Chickens!

Urban Sprawl and Fast Food Giants:
Major fast food chains like KFC are one of the major contributing factors towards urban sprawl, and the environmentally un-sustainability that comes along with it. Urban sprawl is the growth of roads and industry, which destroys local culture and control, and replaces it with corporate power and destruction. The loss of farmland and open space often causes unexpected economic challenges for rural communities. In communities like ours, farmland, forests, ranch land and open space tend to be the economic drivers that feeds us, provides beauty, and is a home for eco-systems. Sprawling development compromises the resources that are the core of the community. Current development patterns also create substantial air pollution, largely because of the increased automobile dependence that is associated with sprawl. With local economies wiped out, people now rely on strip malls and shopping centers, and the only realistic choice for running out to these places is to drive.
An academic study commissioned by SGA, Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact, shows that people in more sprawling places breathe more polluted air. The study found that the severity of ozone pollution is strongly related to the degree of sprawl. In fact the difference in ozone levels between the most sprawling and least sprawling metro areas is 41 parts per billion: enough to shift a metro area from ‘code green’ air quality status to an unhealthy ‘code red.’ Other pollutants emitted by cars, such as benzene and particulate matter, better known as soot, are associated with increased risk of lung and other cancers, particularly for those who live near major roadways. Ninety percent of total cancer risk in the Los Angeles Basin is attributable to toxic air pollutants emitted by mobile sources. As a recent headline in USA Today put it: “City, suburban designs could be bad for your health.”
The creation of modern cities is based upon creating profits for those that hold property, and maximizing those profits despite the harmful side effects it might have. Urban sprawl leads to the
creation of cities and towns without variation, where McDonalds line
every street, where no workers have unions, where the jobs pay low
and fire often, where the earth and animals are destroyed for corporate profit. This is not a world we desire - nor is it the community that we love.
Info taken from:
smartgrowthamerica.com

KFC and Fast Food, An Enemy to Workers:
On average union workers receive a median of 27% more money than un-unionized workers. Unionized workers also get 54% more in pension funds than un-unionized workers. Union workers also get better health insurance, disability coverage, and life insurance. However, the trend in this area is that workers are becoming more and more non-unionized. This is largely because of the pressure created by large corporations like Wal-Mart and others, and the growth of service industry jobs, (like KFC), and a decline in skilled labor positions.
Corporations counter this image by stating that they give good job opportunities to people and offer lots of jobs. While corporations like Wal-Mart and KFC do employ lots of people, they remain anti-union because allowing unions to organize would mean that not only would they have to pay more in salaries, but they would also have to pay more in benefits.
KFC is no different. Fast food giants like KFC don’t allow unions because they want a large pool of workers to draw from. By keeping people poor and unskilled, they can pull from a large amount of people that will be willing to work for them
for low pay, long hours and no benefits. As fellow workers, we have
to take a stand against this kind of abuse, and organize by any means necessary. Unions like the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World - http://www.iww.org), are leading the fight against the service industry, and are organizing unions in stores from Pizza places to Starbucks. By keeping the means of production from us the workers, and keeping us down and poor is how capitalism works - let’s stop it.
Source: ALF-CIO Homepage : http://www.aflcio.org/

Animal and Earth Destruction:
In order to supply the great amount of meat needed to keep KFC running, KFC inflicts massive amounts of abuse on animals, and on the environment. Birds have their beaks cut off at early ages, are boiled alive often in hot water during the slaughtering process, and are fed hormones which make them grow so fast their legs often break (1). Those hormones are going into our bodies, the affects of which can be linked to several health problems (2). On top of this, chicken “factories”, are one of the most polluting, pumping millions of pounds of waste into rivers. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, hog, chicken and cattle waste have polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states (3).
1 http://www.peta.org
2 http://www.preventcancer.com/press/editorials/march10_92.htm
3 http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/

Alternatives:
Support union made products and businesses. Support local farmers. Visit the Farmers Market in Modesto. Buy organic. Organize with your co-workers and smash capitalism and earth destruction! We have a world to win and a community to re-gain!

Produced by Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians (DAAA) Collective http://www.modanarcho.tk