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Pamela Anderson Speaks Out for Chickens
Pamela Anderson Speaks Out for Chickens
Whenever animals are in trouble, they can count on their number one “lifeguard,” Baywatch star Pam Anderson. After learning that KFC’s chickens have their beaks seared off with hot blades and that they are sometimes scalded alive in slaughterhouses, Pam penned a letter to priszm brandz, KFC’s parent company in her homeland of Canada, demanding that the company eliminate the worst abuses of chickens at the factory farms and slaughterhouses that supply KFC’s restaurants internationally. So many people asked her about her call for a boycott that she requested a meeting with David Novak, the CEO of KFC’s parent company, so that she could explain the importance of protecting chickens from hideous abuse.
When Pam heard that NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. was driving a new car sponsored by KFC, she wrote to Earnhardt, asking him to use his clout with the company to push for controlled-atmosphere killing of chickens, which she describes in her letter as “a painless process that puts chickens to sleep and is a huge improvement over the current method of hanging the birds up by their broken legs, slitting their throats, and often scalding them while still fully conscious and able to feel pain.”
Whenever animals are in trouble, they can count on their number one “lifeguard,” Baywatch star Pam Anderson. After learning that KFC’s chickens have their beaks seared off with hot blades and that they are sometimes scalded alive in slaughterhouses, Pam penned a letter to priszm brandz, KFC’s parent company in her homeland of Canada, demanding that the company eliminate the worst abuses of chickens at the factory farms and slaughterhouses that supply KFC’s restaurants internationally. So many people asked her about her call for a boycott that she requested a meeting with David Novak, the CEO of KFC’s parent company, so that she could explain the importance of protecting chickens from hideous abuse.
When Pam heard that NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. was driving a new car sponsored by KFC, she wrote to Earnhardt, asking him to use his clout with the company to push for controlled-atmosphere killing of chickens, which she describes in her letter as “a painless process that puts chickens to sleep and is a huge improvement over the current method of hanging the birds up by their broken legs, slitting their throats, and often scalding them while still fully conscious and able to feel pain.”
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Pam rocks!
elections come and go but the killing of helpless chickens goes on and on each year miooions of peaceful chickens are
killed for fast(fun) food. you can help by supporting the ongoing protest to stop the killing of helpless chickens
(vote in the next election..it doesn't matter anyway) but the death machine can be stopped today.
killed for fast(fun) food. you can help by supporting the ongoing protest to stop the killing of helpless chickens
(vote in the next election..it doesn't matter anyway) but the death machine can be stopped today.
remind me again, how are you guys/gals essentially different than antiabortionists?
how can you kill and eat another living thing that's disgusting
A grasshopper has as much right to live as a chicken. How can you let this happen?
KFC Ignores the Science on Animal Welfare; PETA
On February 25, 2005, PETA representatives met for eight long hours with five top KFC executives, including Chief Operating Officer Harvey Brownlee and General Counsel R. Scott Toop, in a secret negotiation session brokered by hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons, a PETA supporter. By the end of the meeting, KFC had agreed to consult with a group of mutually agreed-upon animal welfare experts and to put together a proposal for action within 30 days. In return, PETA agreed to suspend all anti-KFC activities during that time. Read PETA's summary of the meeting, as sent in a letter to KFC.
PETA's recommendations are based on the most up-to-date research on poultry welfare, including the work of these same scientists, so it was no surprise that the five independent experts, who include the top poultry scientists in the U.K., Canada, and the United States, endorsed PETA's program for improving animal welfare at KFC.
Despite their unanimous opinion in favor of reforms, KFC's COO, general counsel, and others announced at the next meeting in Mr. Simmons' office on March 28 that they were not accepting even one part of their own experts' four-point plan. This meeting lasted five hours and ended with both sides agreeing to accept a revised proposal from just two of the experts, Drs. Ian Duncan and Temple Grandin, two of the world's top experts in farmed animal welfare.
After several additional discussions, KFC has now refused to accept these experts' recommendations or, in fact, to do anything to eliminate the very worst abuses suffered by animals raised and killed for its restaurants.
KFC's proposed "plan of action" on animal welfare did not contain a single step that would improve the life of a single animal. It contained vague statements and limp promises to write letters and do research but nothing that would prevent a single chicken from becoming crippled or being scalded alive in a defeathering tank while still fully conscious. KFC was apparently so unconvinced by its own plan that it refused to allow PETA to keep a copy of it after our meeting to share with the public. Read PETA's letter to KFC, spelling out the problems with KFC's plan of action.
Because of KFC's refusal to act, PETA is reigniting its campaign against the company and calling on compassionate people around the world to join the boycott of KFC until KFC agrees to make all the changes recommended by independent animal welfare scientists.
You Can Help!
If you still eat chicken, please stop eating at KFC until it agrees to improve the way it treats chickens. If you've already stopped eating chicken, educate others to do the same, and check out more ways for you to get involved with PETA's campaign.
On February 25, 2005, PETA representatives met for eight long hours with five top KFC executives, including Chief Operating Officer Harvey Brownlee and General Counsel R. Scott Toop, in a secret negotiation session brokered by hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons, a PETA supporter. By the end of the meeting, KFC had agreed to consult with a group of mutually agreed-upon animal welfare experts and to put together a proposal for action within 30 days. In return, PETA agreed to suspend all anti-KFC activities during that time. Read PETA's summary of the meeting, as sent in a letter to KFC.
PETA's recommendations are based on the most up-to-date research on poultry welfare, including the work of these same scientists, so it was no surprise that the five independent experts, who include the top poultry scientists in the U.K., Canada, and the United States, endorsed PETA's program for improving animal welfare at KFC.
Despite their unanimous opinion in favor of reforms, KFC's COO, general counsel, and others announced at the next meeting in Mr. Simmons' office on March 28 that they were not accepting even one part of their own experts' four-point plan. This meeting lasted five hours and ended with both sides agreeing to accept a revised proposal from just two of the experts, Drs. Ian Duncan and Temple Grandin, two of the world's top experts in farmed animal welfare.
After several additional discussions, KFC has now refused to accept these experts' recommendations or, in fact, to do anything to eliminate the very worst abuses suffered by animals raised and killed for its restaurants.
KFC's proposed "plan of action" on animal welfare did not contain a single step that would improve the life of a single animal. It contained vague statements and limp promises to write letters and do research but nothing that would prevent a single chicken from becoming crippled or being scalded alive in a defeathering tank while still fully conscious. KFC was apparently so unconvinced by its own plan that it refused to allow PETA to keep a copy of it after our meeting to share with the public. Read PETA's letter to KFC, spelling out the problems with KFC's plan of action.
Because of KFC's refusal to act, PETA is reigniting its campaign against the company and calling on compassionate people around the world to join the boycott of KFC until KFC agrees to make all the changes recommended by independent animal welfare scientists.
You Can Help!
If you still eat chicken, please stop eating at KFC until it agrees to improve the way it treats chickens. If you've already stopped eating chicken, educate others to do the same, and check out more ways for you to get involved with PETA's campaign.
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