World Animal Protection (WAP) delivered an important message to KFC headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky this week, presenting a petition with more than 500,000 signatures to the fast food giant.
The petition urges KFC to stop supporting horrifically cruel factory farms and commit to sourcing their chickens from farms that support natural growth rates and a better environment for the animals.
“We are deeply grateful to the more than 500,000 supporters who’ve signed our petition calling on KFC to give chickens a better life,” Alesia Soltanpanah, US executive director at WAP, told Lady Freethinker. “KFC has the power to transform the lives of chickens on a truly global scale – but they need to take action.”
Unlike fast food competitors Burger King, Subway and Starbucks, KFC — who make billions of dollars every year from the slaughter of animals — have yet to take any action to address the welfare of chickens in their supply chain.
Factory farms are hellish places for animals, as exposed repeatedly through undercover investigations by animal welfare groups. As these farms try to maximize profit, they fatten up their chickens for slaughter in only 40 days using unnatural methods that put enormous pressure on the organs and legs of the chickens. The birds endure chronic pain and health problems, with many suffering from heart attacks due to these rapid growth rates.
“Chickens on factory farms suffer enormously, buckling under their own weight, without space to perform their natural behaviors, and never seeing the light of day,” said Soltanpanah. “By committing to higher-welfare farming, KFC can send a strong signal to other food companies that change for chickens is possible. Animal welfare is important to consumers, and it is important to human health as well. It’s time for KFC to show that it’s important to them, too.”
WAP met with KFC parent company, Yum! Brands, last week, and are hopeful about working with them to make a positive change for animals.
In the meantime, there remains one sure-fire way to eat cruelty free: by opting for plant foods, and leaving animals off your plate.
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Governments should be putting in place an Animal Welfare Act & tell their people to have compassion. No more torture or cruelty.
Chickens are the most abused animals. Please punish companies that treat them in this abominable way, so it is not longer profitable for them.
BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT….PLEASE CONSIDER VEGETARIAN/VEGAN LIFESTYLE.
Cruelty needs to STOP!
CRUELTY-FREE CHICKENS! YES!
Please be compassionate and protect our vulnerable animals. Teach our children to care for sentient creatures so we can have a better world.
Please be decent. Try to set an example. No more cruelty.
Tofu is very good. As good or better than chicken. And no suffering involved.
CAN YOU PLEASE INVITE ME TO JOIN YOU IF YOU DO THIS IN CALI? I WOULD LOVE TO PARTICIPATE AS I TOO AM VEGAN AND SUPPORT YOUR CAUSE
Pls. stop the cruel practice. Find a more humane way to get food!
i have no answers to this horrible act. i know the killing of animals is never going to stop but there has to be a more humane way. i never go to fast food places anymore. it is very rare that i eat meat poultry. i eat veggies and fruit.
sickening
Will K F C do this?? Or Boycott them. Their food tastes disgusting and this makes it more so.
Please stop cruelty to animals.
This shit kills me. what is cruelty free slaughter? Ahahah stop eating meat if you care about animals!! There is no “humane” way to murder something that does NOT want to die..
It is bit oxymoronic , isn’t it?Humane slaughter. They can have better lives but in the end they are dead. I used to do demonstrations in front of their store with my animal rights group. It was one small group and we handed out literature about factory farming. I am glad to see this action on a much bigger scale. When I was in high school I ate KFC but that was a LONG time ago and have not eaten a chicken in over 42 years.
It takes a while to become fully aware, so we can understand that we are in for the long haul in terms of asking others to care for sentient creatures.
Please leave animals off your plate!!!!!!
Hooray for the Actions of WAP !!!
Fast food chains are too selfishly greedy to care about the welfare of the animals. Until we start hitting them in their profits they will play dumb and act like they don’t realize they are contributing to the horrific treatment and torture of chickens. I can do without any of them.
When will this cruelty end.
No matter what other say you Just keep on torture
Stop, please. You are mad:
Put on your big boy pants and clean up your act and chicken houses.
Time to step up KFC
Step up KFC! Time to end animal cruelty!
What action have Burger King, Subway, and Starbucks taken to address the welfare of chickens in their supply chain?