This is why I want to Save The Chickens.
Posted August 8, 2007
In the United States
A PETA undercover investigation at a Missouri slaughterhouse owned by KFC Supplier of the Year Georges, Inc. documented that live birds were being thrown by workers, scalded alive, and injured by broken transport cages.
Workers at a former KFC Supplier of the Year slaughterhouse in West Virginia were caught tearing birds apart, spitting tobacco into their eyes, spray-painting their faces, stomping on them, and throwing them against wallsall while the birds were still conscious.
Workers at a KFC-supplier slaughterhouse in Maryland were documented punching frenzied, terrified birds and spiking them like footballs, among other sadistic acts of cruelty.
Maryland-based animal rights group Compassion Over Killing documented the entire 45-day cycle of a KFC chicken shed. Check out a week-by-week snapshot into these horrible conditions and the drug-induced, crippling injuries caused by one of KFCs top suppliers.
A whistleblower at a Tyson slaughterhouse testified that birds intentionally were scalded to death, were blown apart by makeshift firecrackers, and had their legs broken by workers to fit them into slaughter-line shackles. Tyson is KFCs number one supplier.
A PETA undercover investigation found workers who were ripping live animals heads off and shoddy, outdated slaughter machines cutting open birds legs, wings, and chest cavities at this Tyson plant in Alabama.
Abroad
KFC Canada exposed! Former employees of a chicken-catching company in Canada testified that when KFCs chickens are violently thrown into crates headed for the slaughterhouse, they suffer injuries, including broken wings and legs.
KFC United Kingdom exposed! Journalist Martin Coutts wrote a scathing article for the Sunday Mirrorone of the largest newspapers in the world, with nearly 5 million readersthat detailed a lengthy undercover investigation conducted at one of KFCs largest U.K. suppliers: Distressed and Dying in a Cramped Shed Nobody Does Chicken Like KFC, announced the headline.
KFC Australia exposed! Crippled birds were found among the corpses of other animals in barren, windowless sheds during an undercover investigation into KFC supplier Inghams. See the rescue of 20 chickens by Animal Liberation Victoria from a KFC supplier outside Melbourne.
KFC New Zealand exposed! A group of New Zealand activists went to a KFC supplier farm and found crippled chickens everywhere, including those who had slowly died of dehydration after their crippled condition left them unable to reach water. Five chickens were rescued.
KFC Germany exposed! Investigators at this KFC supplier in Germany found 38,000 chickens who were forced to live in a crowded barn covered in their own excrement and were given steady doses of antibiotics to keep them alive through conditions so filthy that the birds would have otherwise died.
KFC India exposed! An undercover investigation of a KFC supplier in India found chickens stuffed into extremely crowded warehouses littered with chicken carcasses, birds immobilized by crippling leg deformities caused by cruel breeding practices, sick and injured chickens who never received medical attention, and chickens suffering at the hands of callous workers who neglected to observe even minimal standards of animal welfare.
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