Video shows KFC supplier harming chickens

[depakid]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- An investigator for an animal rights group captured video of chickens being kicked, stomped and thrown against a wall by workers at a supplier for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The footage, released online Tuesday, was secretly taken at the Pilgrim's Pride plant in Moorefield, W.Va., by an investigator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who worked there from October to May.

PETA said its investigator also obtained eyewitness testimony about employees "ripping birds' beaks off, spray-painting their faces, twisting their heads off, spitting tobacco into their mouths and eyes, and breaking them in half - all while the birds are still alive."

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PETA has been pressuring KFC since last year, when it sued the company and called for a boycott, demanding that KFC require suppliers to treat animals more humanely. The group has recently won similar concessions from other major fast-food chains, including McDonald's and Burger King.

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PETA takes a lot of heat on this board for some of their antics, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact that the organization also does a lot of good work.

[Heyo]

1. If true....

.. it's needlessly cruel and the people who are doing must be missing something in their lives. I have no problem with eating chickens. But to be unnecessarily cruel and do this and think it's funny.. shows there is something not quite right about you.

Heyo

[depakid]

2. I'd have posted the video, but frankly I don't want to see it.

I hope they prosecute these (I'm assuming guys) to the full extent of the law.

[DenverDem]

3. Yet another reason why eating meat is unethical.

This is outrageous, but standard industry practices are just as brutal.

Yet, our culture lives in denial about the pain we visit on sentient beings so that we can kill ourselves slowly with unhealthy diets while making corporations richer and richer.

[markdd]

4. They solved this type of problem

In Missouri. The repug controlled lege made it illegal to video tape inside places where animals might be abused without owner's permission. Brave answer to PETA investigation of puppy mill abuses in MO (state may lead nation in puppy mills).

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Ah, right out of the Rummy playbook

At least they're consistent.

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[Robert Murphy]

6. It gets worse...

Chickens are the most brutally abused livestock animals this side of foie gras ducks or veal calves. They often spend their entire lives in tiny cages, and are fed recyled chicken sh*t. When slaughtered they are hung by their feet on a conveyor; their next stop is a 'throat slicing machine.' The stop after that is boiling water, to remove the feathers. Problem is, the machine misses some, so some chickens are boiled alive.

Most people, if they ever visited a slaughter house, would leave as card-carrying vegetarians.

Robert