Update on PETA's Investigation of KFC - Help Needed

The PETA investigator's video was played around the world and led to firing of workers, reform measures by Pilgrim's Pride (the global corporation that owned the plant) and tens of thousands of requests for PETA's vegetarian starter kit.

On January 11, 2005, Ginny Conley, head of a West Virginia state prosecutors organization, told the Associated Press that criminal charges would not be filed "due to the fact that these were chickens in a slaughterhouse." She also said that the abuse "needs to be handled more on a regulatory end than prosecuting someone criminally," even though there are absolutely no federal or state regulations dealing with humane poultry slaughter and despite the fact that these sadistic acts were clear violations of the state's cruelty-to-animals statute.

PETA was previously successful in convincing prosecutors in North Carolina and Oklahoma to file felony charges after their undercover investigations revealed horrific treatment of pigs in factory farms there; the convictions that followed sent a strong message to the factory farm industry that just because an animal is in a factory farm, transport truck, or slaughterhouse does not mean that "humane standards" can be ignored.

Please contact the governor and governor-elect of West Virginia to politely ask that they use their full authority to ensure that a special prosecutor is appointed, as requested by the judge in the
case:

Governor Bob Wise
Governor-Elect Joe Manchin
Office of the Governor
State Capitol Complex
1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.
Charleston, WV 25305

304-558-2000 (outside West Virginia)

1-888-438-2731 (within West Virginia)

304-558-2722 (fax)

Governor [at] WVGov.org