KFC Cruelty

When you pull up to a drive through window, you hardly ever wonder about where the food actually came from. For KFC, there's a much sadder story about how the chicken got there. It's an incredibly heart breaking story about what goes on before the meat comes to your plate. Now, i am a meat lover myself. I am not against the eating of cows, chickens, or pigs, but i believe that how these animals are treated before their death, and even how they are killed, should be humane. KFC is just one of the many food companies that is involved with animal cruelty, but they are indeed one of the worst.

850 million baby chickens are cruelly raised and killed for the company each year. The catching of the birds is done in an incredibly horrible way. The workers grab up to 5 birds at a time and throw them into the crates' openings. They do not care about how hard they throw them or if they even make it in the hole. If a chicken misses the hole, it slams into the side of the crate. The workers than pick it up, and throw it into the hole again.. and this time with even more force. It often leads to broken bones. When the chicken are brought to the sheds, they are cramed into small rooms by the tens of thousands to the point where they can barely move.

Because they want their chickens so meaty, they force them to grow at such a fast pace, that their legs are not able to carry their top heavy bodys. Most of them die of starvation or dehydration by not being able to walk to the food or water. The weight of their oversized bodies also causes their bones to break. They suffer from broken legs and wings that are never healed.

When they are young, KFC will cut off the tips of their beaks. The pain is so intense for these chickens and goes on for weeks. Some die from starvation because they are not able to eat, or just the shock alone will kill them. KFC's reason to this is still unknown.

At this time, the chickens are exhausted suffering from broken bones, starvation, and dehydration. They are now brought to the slaughter house where they are dumped from crates and their already broken legs are snaped as they are hung upside down for the slaughtering process. The killing of these chickens is not a fast process. What happens during the killing procedure is that after they are hung upside down, they are run through a stun bath, but often the workers set the voltage so low that the chickens suffer from many painful shocks before they are actually stuned. The birds then have their throats slit. Finally, they are dumped into a tank full of scolding hot water to remove their feathers. Some the chickens are still alive thoughout this entire process and are then just scolded alive.

This is just the information that we can know. No one can be certain what even goes on behind the scences. On July 20,2004, a PETA invesigator went behind the scences and caught sadistic abuse toward these chickens on camera. The workers were caught grabing the chickens and hurling them across the room into walls, stomping on them, and even tearing them apart. The management of KFC knew about this abuse but did nothing to stop it. 114 chickens were thrown in seven minutes. A supervisor walking past the pile of birds on the floor said, "Hold your fire," and, once out of the way, told the crew to "carry on." Here is that video.

I would hope that after hearing this information you will never pull up to a KFC ever again. This companie deserves to be shut down if cruelty like this is going to carry on. Wolfgang Punk just recently talked about the changes in his menu. Hopefully more companies will soon realize there needs to be a change. ALV is an organization along with PETA that is trying to get an end to this.

I am going to post a video that shows you exactly what i just talked about. It is alittle long, but trust me, it is worth it. I hope you take time out to see for yourself the truth of what i just talked about.