GRRR! > Spring 2003 >Animals are not ours to eat.

A KFC bucket of wings boasts a BIG body count.Think about it—every bird only has two wings (if only all math problems were this easy). Log onto KFC’s Web site and you’ll see that about 763,000,000 KFC chickens were eaten last year all over the world! The site also brags that if laid head to toe, KFC’s dead chickens would encircle the Earth at the equator eight and a half times. Nice. More than a year and a half ago, PETA contacted KFC’s parent company,Yum! Brands, Inc., about the company’s miserable treatment of millions of birds. “Not to worry,” they said, giving (empty) promises that KFC would improve living conditions for its feathered victims. Surprise! Little has changed.

Kentucky Fried Cruelty

Take a look at the “crime scene.” Isn’t it time these poultry-peddling perps were brought to justice?

	KFC chickens are crammed by the tens of thousands into gigantic warehouses that reek of ammonia from the piles of waste.
Wings and legs are often snapped by the men who roughly grab chickens and jam them into tiny crates to be loaded onto slaughterhouse trucks.
	Chickens are piled on top of each other in open trucks for the terrifying ride to the slaughterhouse. Sometimes they fall off and are left to die along the road side.
Birds are sent to slaughter when they are just 6 to 7 weeks old—still babies!
	If a person treated their parakeet the way KFC treats chickens, they’d be arrested!

	• Tell KFC’s parent company to treat birds better. Write: David Novak, CEO,Yum! Brands Inc., 1441 Gardiner Ln., Louisville, KY 40213. Or call: 1-800-CALL-KFC. • Kick that addiction to chicken! Visit VegKids.com to order your free vegetarian starter kit.
Bird Brains? Chickens have shown that they can learn to use switches and levers to adjust the temperature in their surroundings or open doorways to feeding areas.