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Down on the KFC Farm...
Chickens in ShedsChickens today are typically crammed by the tens of thousands into sheds, each chicken with less living space than a standard sheet of paper. Modern chickens’ upper bodies grow six to seven times as fast as they used to—they are fed drugs and are genetically bred to grow so large and so quickly that their legs, lungs, and hearts often can’t keep up. Many of these animals, whose lives are miserable from birth, suffer lung collapse, heart failure, and crippling leg deformities. On farms where cruelty is totally unregulated, extreme abuse goes completely unnoticed. Breeding Chickens: "Neglected Chickens"The breeding animals who “supply” broiler chicken sheds have been called Gallus neglectedus (“neglected chickens”) because their welfare is so often ignored entirely. These birds suffer from many of the same conditions forced on other chickens but suffer from them for a longer period of time. Additionally, the birds are forced to endure constant hunger from food deprivation and painful mutilations, including having their beaks seared off, their toes, spurs, and combs chopped off, and intranasal implants (plastic stick-like objects) inserted through male birds’ nasal cavities so that the ends protrude horizontally to both sides of their faces, preventing the birds from reaching through the cage to eat the females’ food. Click here to read PETA’s complete report on the suffering of breeding birds, known as “broiler breeders.” Chicken SlaughterAt slaughter, chickens are dumped from cages like so many rubber balls and then SNAPPED by their weakened and sometimes broken legs into metal shackles before their heads are passed through an electrically charged water bath that immobilizes them but often does not render them unconscious. The workers who hang the animals must work so quickly (assembly-line style) that animals are frequently injured. When the water “baths” are set below the level required to kill them, as they often are, the animals (unless they have died from stress and abuse before they’re even shackled) are alive, conscious, and bleeding to death after their throats are slit, and they enter the scalding tank (scalding hot water for feather removal) still conscious. Many of them flap about and thus miss both the immobilization bath and the automated and manual (human) neck-slicers and are still completely conscious when they are scalded to death. Click here to read PETA's complete report on how replacing current killing methods with contained-atmosphere stunning-to-kill can reduce suffering. Verification & TransparencyEvery time animal groups go undercover on a factory farm or in a slaughterhouse, the level of abuse found is shocking—going even beyond the simple horrors that are routine. Unfortunately, we simply can’t trust corporations or factory farmers to adhere to guidelines. KFC must hire independent auditors and report audit progress on its Web site. KFC has hired Drs. Temple Grandin, Ian Duncan, and Joy Mench as consultants. They would make an excellent team to train and oversee independent auditors to implement the comprehensive program that PETA is proposing—which must include unannounced audits (verifiability) and a complete detail of the plan and progress (transparency). [from www.kfccruelty.com] |
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