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DESCRIPTION:Why KFC:\nThe roughly 1 billion chickens killed each year for KFC's buckets 
 are crammed by the tens of thousands into excrement-filled sheds that stink 
 of ammonia fumes. \nThe birds’ legs and wings often break because 
 they’re bred to be too top-heavy and because workers carelessly shove 
 them into transport crates and shackles. \nChickens’ throats are slit and 
 the animals are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water to remove their 
 feathers, often while they are still conscious and able to feel pain. \nKFC 
 lets frustrated factory-farm and slaughterhouse workers handle live birds, 
 so many of the animals end up being sadistically abused. At a KFC 
 “Supplier of the Year” slaughterhouse in West Virginia, workers were 
 documented tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco into their 
 eyes, spray-painting their faces, and violently stomping on them. This was 
 discovered more than two years after KFC promised PETA that it was taking 
 animal welfare seriously. KFC hides behind its Animal Welfare Advisory 
 Council, even though five members of the council have resigned in 
 frustration. One of them, Adele Douglass, told the Chicago Tribune that KFC 
 “never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they 
 touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I 
 felt like I was being used.” \n\nOur Demands:\nAdopt the “Animal Care 
 Standards” program. This would lower the amount of ammonia in the air in 
 factory farms, improve the living spaces and lighting in chicken sheds, 
 prohibit the intentional starving of breeding birds, and ensure that birds 
 are provided with mental and physical stimulation. \nSwitch to 
 controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK). This would prevent live birds in 
 slaughterhouses from being abused by workers, having their throats slit, or 
 being scalded while they were still conscious. CAK would also improve 
 conditions for workers and decrease contamination levels in chickens’ 
 flesh. \nSwitch to mechanized chicken gathering. This would drastically 
 reduce the number of broken bones and painful bruising that birds endure 
 when factory-farm workers carelessly throw them into transport crates. 
 \nBreed for health rather than rapid growth, and stop feeding drugs to 
 chickens. This would reduce the rate at which birds suffer painful, 
 crippling diseases and injuries, such as broken legs, heart attacks, and 
 lung failures. \nMake all welfare standards transparent and verifiable. 
 This would simply ensure that the animal welfare program is being adhered 
 to through announced and unannounced independent audits (the results of 
 which must be made available to the public through KFC’s Web site). \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/23/18597232.php
SUMMARY:Kentucky Fried Cruelty Demontration
LOCATION:111 Healdsburg Avenue
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/23/18597232.php
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