Want to know what KFC's secret is?

[notadmblnd]

CNN just reported the story about Chicken abuse (Pilgrims Pride brand, supplier to KFC). yYes, folks those tasty chickens are tenderized before their cooked. They are stomped and and bounced off walls as if they were nerf balls. And you just thought it was those 7 secrect spices that made them taste so finger lickin good.

[Sub Atomic]

1. Give them a break!!

It was just a couple of guys caught choking the chicken.

Move along, nothing to see.

[Mr_Spock]

4. Choking the Chicken - very funny.

n/m

[leftofthedial]

2. plus, KFC is running a "Republican Bucket" special through election day

The "Republican Bucket"--all right wings and assholes

[TrustingDog]

7. LOL! thanks... gonna have to pass that one along.

[sniffa]

3. their extra crispy chicken

is made with human teeth.

[Tight_rope]

5. LOL..that was funny!

[JVS]

6. I prefer Popeye's

[notadmblnd]

8. I've never been a big chicken fan

And KFC's I've always had particular disgust for. I could never get past all those wiggly little uncooked veins when you get close to the bone.

[LittleApple81]

9. I have NEVER bought KFC. Now I feel good about it. I have gone

to potluck parties where they had it and I ate it... darn!

[nolabels]

10. Raising animals to later kill them later is older than history

Doesn't that sound like a good excuse?



Fast-Food Restaurants Curbing Antibiotics in Poultry

McDonald's chicken sandwiches may not look different to the naked eye, but they're bound to lend a whole new meaning to the term, "value meal." The fast-food giant, along with Wendy's and Popeyes, has announced that it will no longer buy chickens from suppliers who treat the birds with fluoroquinolone antibiotics, an important step in limiting the development of antibiotic-resistant diseases in animals and humans.
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http://www.hsus.org/ace/13383

The Ottawa Citizen
November 13, 2000 Monday
FINAL EDITION

The defenders and the terminators of chickens

Tony Atherton
The Ottawa Citizen

ARTS, Pg. D11 Television

'I feel guilty, ashamed -- and hungry."

This admission by filmmaker John Kastner about halfway through his hour-long documentary, Chickens are People, Too (tomorrow on CBC's Witness at 9 p.m.), sums up the ambivalence and gently mocking tone of this self-styled black comedy about the chicken industry.

By the end of the program, viewers will be left with two firm impressions: That chickens are brutally, even sickeningly, mistreated in modern-day poultry factories, to a degree that no right-thinking person would tolerate; and that animal rights activists are wacko for thinking we should put an end to it.

There is no middle ground in the film, unless you count a message appended to the end of the film. It states that the fast-food chain, McDonald's has, after much lobbying from the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, agreed to buy its chickens only from farmers using oversized cages. However, you get a sense that this is not so much an armistice in the war between the vegans and the carnivores, as a brief diversionary tactic.

That is because there is so vast a gulf between the goals of the two sides. The carnivores (that is, most of us) are mostly concerned with consuming as much chicken and as many eggs as we can before being killed by deep fat and cholesterol, while the vegans, who harbour the strange notion that humans can use their brains to control their stomachs, want us to switch entirely to tofu and birdseed.
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http://www.upc-online.org/001113chickens_are_people_too_review.html

Paul McCartney Joins PETA Campaign Against KFC

USA: July 25, 2003


NEW YORK - Singer Paul McCartney has joined an animal rights campaign against fast food chain KFC, urging the company to ensure better treatment for chickens in a U.S. newspaper advertisement yesterday.


"If KFC suppliers treated dogs or cats the way they treat chickens, they could be charged with the crime of cruelty to animals," said a letter signed by McCartney on behalf of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

"I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens suffer pain and fear," the letter said. "These remarkable animals are deserving of at least a little kindness."

The letter appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal, a newspaper in the hometown of KFC and its parent company, Yum Brands Inc.. It was addressed to Yum Chief Executive David Novak.
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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21634/story.htm