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Help Protect KFC Slaughterhouse Chickens

You may have already seen the shocking media reports about PETA's investigation into a KFC-supplying Pilgrim's Pride slaughterhouse in Moorefield, W.Va. In case you haven't, on July 20, PETA released the results of this undercover investigation, in which workers were caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking them, and violently slamming them against floors and walls-leaving countless birds to suffer agonizing deaths. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray painted their faces, and squeezed their bodies so hard that the birds expelled feces-all while the chickens were still alive. Click here to learn more about the investigation.

  • Unfortunately, birds are exempted from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, and receive absolutely no federal protection from inhumane slaughter. Please write a polite letter to your members of Congress and ask that they introduce humane-slaughter legislation for poultry. Find your members of Congress and how to contact them at www.Congress.org or just as us at [email protected].

  • Please write Pilgrim's Pride and KFC's parent company Yum! Brands and ask that they install surveillance cameras and implement controlled-atmosphere killing -- a method that painlessly kills birds before they reach the portion of the plant where
    these cruelties took place -- in all their slaughterhouses:
      Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, Chair
      Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
      110 S. Texas St.
      Pittsburg, TX 75686
      903-855-1000
      1-800-824-1159 (toll-free)
      903-856-7505 (fax) [email protected]

      David Novak, CEO
      Yum! Brands
      1441 Gardiner Ln.
      Louisville, KY 40213
      1-800-CALL-KFC (toll-free)
      502-874-8291 (fax)

Please forward this to as many sympathetic people as you can. Chickens need all the calls, letters, and faxes that we can muster. Thanks again for everything that you do for animals.

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