The Fast Food Industry:
McCruelty and Kruelty Fried Chicken
McDonalds / McCruelty:
The secret ingredient in chicken McNuggets; Animal Cruelty
- Bred for Pain
Chickens are bred to grow so fast their fragile legs often give out and the birds collapse under their own weight. Many die from heart attacks and organ failure.
- Living in Darkness
Chickens are kept in near darkness almost their entire lives. They won’t even see sunlight until the day they are killed.
- Sitting in Waste
Birds spend most of their lives sitting in old litter soaked with feces and urine, resulting in painful sores and respiratory problems.
- Crammed Together
Chickens are packed together so tightly they can barely move. They have little room to walk around or engage in many basic natural behaviors.
In many of the slaughterhouses of U.S. and Canadian chicken suppliers for McDonald's, birds are:
- Dumped out of their transport crates
- Hung upside down in metal shackles, which can result in broken bones, extreme bruising, and hemorrhaging
- Workers often abuse live animals
- Eyewitnesses have seen birds' throats cut while they're still conscious
- Birds immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they're still alive able to feel pain.
What we're asking of McDonalds:
1. Healthier breeds
Chickens are bred to grow so unnaturally large so unnaturally fast, their legs and organs often can’t support their own bodies. If a human baby grew as quickly, they’d be 660 pounds at just two months old.
2. More room to move
Tens of thousands of chickens are crammed together into filthy, dark sheds for their entire lives. Packed together tightly, the oversize birds have little more than the space of their own bodies.
3. Better housing
Without perches to get up off the ground, birds are forced to sit, eat, and sleep in their own waste. The litter is rarely changed, so managing litter quality is critical as to prevent wet litter and ammonia from severely burning the birds’ bodies and
4. Opportunities for natural behaviours
Trapped in barren sheds with little to no environmental enrichment, chickens are unable to engage in most natural behaviors. Birds need clean litter in which to dust-bathe, pecking objects like straw bales, and perches on which to rest.
Kruelty Fried Chicken / Kentucky Fried Chicken:
KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can’t even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds’ throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they are still conscious.
Please join Pamela Anderson, Sir Paul McCartney, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Rev. Al Sharpton, and countless other kind people worldwide by not eating at KFC.
KFC sells death by the bucket:
Over a decade ago, when PETA found out about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s plan to peddle its deep-fried death to the black community, we teamed up with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who called for a boycott of Colonel Sanders. then, PETA has achieved major wins against KFC, including the successful boycott of the company’s Canadian branch, which ended when KFCs in that country agreed to some basic animal welfare improvements and added a vegan chicken patty to some menus.
KFC suppliers still abuse birds around the world, and PETA continues to clash with it over the suffering of millions of feeling, intelligent chickens whose body parts are sold by the bucket.
Peta says it wants KFC to end what it claims are:
- "Crude and ineffective" electric stunning
- Throat-slitting to kill birds and replace the process with gas
- The forced rapid growth of chickens to be phased out
- More space for each bird
- "Minimal enhancements" to the birds' living conditions, such as sheltered areas and perches to provide them with some semblance of their natural environment.
- For automated chicken-catching to reduce the high incidence of bruising, broken bones and stress associated with catching the chickens by hand
Dawn Carr, director of Peta Europe, said: "KFC is the world's largest killer of chickens, and as such has a responsibility to treat these birds humanely. Nearly 800 million chickens are killed every year in the cruelest ways imaginable..."
From the humble 1939 beginnings in Louisville, Kentucky, of white-haired Colonel Harland Sanders and his "secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices", KFC has grown into a global giant to compare with McDonald's, serving more than two billion meals annually in more than 9,900 restaurants in 82 countries across the world.
Some fast food facts:
These foods are also altering your brain and your mental health – fueling depression, mental illness, and other issues.
1 serving of French fries per week during adolescence increased women’s breast cancer risk later in life by 27%
Eating fast food = 51% more likely to develop depression
Findings was for people who only consumed 2 servings of fast food a week
Fast food once per week increased the risk of dying from coronary heart disease by 20% — a risk that grew to 50% for people eating fast food 2 or 3 times / week
Other documented impacts from these foods include:
Brain fog
Mood swings
Anxiety
Violence and aggression