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KFC Campaign Restarts!
FYI from Joe Hinkle at PETA. So, our demos on 4/29 and 4/30 in Mill Valley and Pacifica will be held! Please try and attend.. Details on our event calendar at
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Hinkle
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: KFC Campaign Restarts!
Greetings activists:
Six weeks ago I emailed you all to say we were in negotiations with KFC to try to improve the way they treat chickens. We agreed with KFC at the time not to reveal anything about those negotiations, hoping that KFC would do the right thing and agree to do what its own advisors are suggesting. I'm disappointed to announce that after yet another meeting with KFC yesterday, they still aren't planning to take the recommendations of their own advisors to eliminate the worst abuses of the chickens raised and killed for their restaurants. Outrageously, in the end they wouldn't offer a firm commitment to do even a single thing that would guarantee improved conditions for even a single chicken. You can see details of our negotiations here:
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/moratoriam.asp.
We feel disappointed, deceived, and angry: KFC told us they were serious this time; they told us they would follow the advice of the world's top scientists on chicken welfare. In the end, they violated our trust, to the detriment of the 850 million birds killed for their restaurants every year.
We NEED to show them that we are not going to let their apathy go on without a fight!
Starting today, we are declaring a Month of Action against KFC. We need to all get out there and do demos, leaflet, talk to managers, call KFC, fill out a customer service form, write letters, and let everyone know that KFC does not deserve our money until they make these much-needed changes, which the world's top animal welfare experts have told KFC they support. These experts include people who have been and are on KFC's "advisory" board. You can find addresses, phone numbers, and a link to the customer service form at http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com. Be sure to let me know if you receive a response.
Everyone who organizes a demo in the next month will receive one of our bloody buckets, a satirical representation of KFC's buckets. You can view one here: http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/bloodbucket.asp. One bucket that we send out will contain a certificate to receive an assortment of PETA t-shirts! Also, I will send one of our brand new bobblehead dolls, seen
here:
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/bobbleanniv.asp, to the people who do the most demos during this Month of Action, the person who has the biggest (need pictures), and the person who has the most creative demo (also need pictures).
Finally, everyone that does a demo will be entered into a drawing to win an all expense paid trip for two to the HA 101 of your choice. You can go to http://www.helpinganimals101.com to read all about this conference, but I can tell you that they are amazing! The four you will get to choose from take place in Miami, Chicago and Houston, or, if you live in Canada, Toronto. Every time you do a demo or pass out leaflets in front of a KFC for an hour, your name will be entered, so do as many as you can!
I can send you all the supplies that you need. When you e-mail me, please include your address so I can ship them out immediately. I can also send out an alert to all the other activists in your area-all you need to do is send me the time, date, and address of your demo. Let's get out there and show KFC that they have made a huge mistake in screwing over these poor birds and really underestimated our drive and commitment!
Until KFC Changes,
Joe
____________________________________________
Joe Hinkle | Activist Liaison
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
http://www.goveg.com | http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com | http://www.animalactivist.com
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
http://www.bayareaveg.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Hinkle
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: KFC Campaign Restarts!
Greetings activists:
Six weeks ago I emailed you all to say we were in negotiations with KFC to try to improve the way they treat chickens. We agreed with KFC at the time not to reveal anything about those negotiations, hoping that KFC would do the right thing and agree to do what its own advisors are suggesting. I'm disappointed to announce that after yet another meeting with KFC yesterday, they still aren't planning to take the recommendations of their own advisors to eliminate the worst abuses of the chickens raised and killed for their restaurants. Outrageously, in the end they wouldn't offer a firm commitment to do even a single thing that would guarantee improved conditions for even a single chicken. You can see details of our negotiations here:
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/moratoriam.asp.
We feel disappointed, deceived, and angry: KFC told us they were serious this time; they told us they would follow the advice of the world's top scientists on chicken welfare. In the end, they violated our trust, to the detriment of the 850 million birds killed for their restaurants every year.
We NEED to show them that we are not going to let their apathy go on without a fight!
Starting today, we are declaring a Month of Action against KFC. We need to all get out there and do demos, leaflet, talk to managers, call KFC, fill out a customer service form, write letters, and let everyone know that KFC does not deserve our money until they make these much-needed changes, which the world's top animal welfare experts have told KFC they support. These experts include people who have been and are on KFC's "advisory" board. You can find addresses, phone numbers, and a link to the customer service form at http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com. Be sure to let me know if you receive a response.
Everyone who organizes a demo in the next month will receive one of our bloody buckets, a satirical representation of KFC's buckets. You can view one here: http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/bloodbucket.asp. One bucket that we send out will contain a certificate to receive an assortment of PETA t-shirts! Also, I will send one of our brand new bobblehead dolls, seen
here:
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/bobbleanniv.asp, to the people who do the most demos during this Month of Action, the person who has the biggest (need pictures), and the person who has the most creative demo (also need pictures).
Finally, everyone that does a demo will be entered into a drawing to win an all expense paid trip for two to the HA 101 of your choice. You can go to http://www.helpinganimals101.com to read all about this conference, but I can tell you that they are amazing! The four you will get to choose from take place in Miami, Chicago and Houston, or, if you live in Canada, Toronto. Every time you do a demo or pass out leaflets in front of a KFC for an hour, your name will be entered, so do as many as you can!
I can send you all the supplies that you need. When you e-mail me, please include your address so I can ship them out immediately. I can also send out an alert to all the other activists in your area-all you need to do is send me the time, date, and address of your demo. Let's get out there and show KFC that they have made a huge mistake in screwing over these poor birds and really underestimated our drive and commitment!
Until KFC Changes,
Joe
____________________________________________
Joe Hinkle | Activist Liaison
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
http://www.goveg.com | http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com | http://www.animalactivist.com
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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the world has to realize that we are all here togeather and we don't have to eat each other
man what if the time andmoney that PETA spent on negotiations, props and nonbiodegradable plastic bobbleheads went into somthing more worth while, like fighting the military/prison industrial complex or say destroying capitalism, what do you expect for an organization championed by hollywood actors
KFC Ignores the Science on Animal Welfare; PETA Campaign Is Full Steam Ahead
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.
I am not sure what is going on with all these chickens. I saw pistures of chickens in what I guess was supposed to be distress. It is hard to tell when you look into a chickens eyes. It's kinda empty in there. Is it wrong to have chickens suffer treatment in small cages being beakless and-as I heard one put it, "devoid of thier families". Is KFC wrong for this treatment? Maybe, but then if it's not wrong to eat them, I mean we kill them for food, what is the difference? Maybe it is wrong to eat them? Then what can we eat? Would it not be wrong to eat any animal? Should we just lay down and die? Why is it wrong to eat animals? Why are there protests just for the cute animals? Why Dolphins but not Tuna? Why is intelligence quoted as a factor for protection from eating? Can we eat anything that isn't smart? Can we eat retarded humans?
Jeff, that those are great questions....thanks! and cheers.
I think that Jeff is on to something, The first ammendment of the Constitution guarrentees me the right to pursue happiness. My happiness is greatly increased when I eat meat. So for a group to tell me what I can't eat is imposing on my freedoms and my rights.
If farmers want to raise them in small cages that is their right of private property.
Torture is another story. I don't want to eat a duck that's been force fed until it explodes, or a chicken that died of a heart attack because it was scalded alive in boiling water.
I am a staunch Republican, but I would get behind a movement to establish standards to narrow the definition of cruelty to animals.
If we can't do it to our dogs and cats, we shouldn't do it to cows and chickens or tuna or dolphins.
There should be some kind of standard that universally applies.
Eating humans is not legal in this country. But there are still places where it is okay, I suppose, Jeff.
If farmers want to raise them in small cages that is their right of private property.
Torture is another story. I don't want to eat a duck that's been force fed until it explodes, or a chicken that died of a heart attack because it was scalded alive in boiling water.
I am a staunch Republican, but I would get behind a movement to establish standards to narrow the definition of cruelty to animals.
If we can't do it to our dogs and cats, we shouldn't do it to cows and chickens or tuna or dolphins.
There should be some kind of standard that universally applies.
Eating humans is not legal in this country. But there are still places where it is okay, I suppose, Jeff.
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