Kentucky Fried Cruelty

If KFC treated dogs and cats the way that it treats the nearly 800 million chickens who are killed each year for its restaurants, the company would be facing felony cruelty-to-animals charges. The video shown is a supplier of Perdue

• The chickens are crammed into sheds, thousands at a time, and live for two months rather then the 10 years expected for a healthy bird.
• The antibiotics in the feed are concetrated, needed beecause of the waste that cover the floor.
•  Many chickens cannot walk because the are so fat, their legs cannot support their weight. They wait, crippled, until they are slaughtered. These birds can't do anything but hope for death.
• Ammonia fills the air, and many animals die and and their bodies sit amongst other chickens. The bodies are only removed after a week or two, and then recycled into chicken feed. Their chicken feed is recycled, made from dead cows, horses, pigs, and other chickens.
• They have their beaks cut off to prevent violence, but would they be violent if they were so crowded? This is not like trimming your fingernails. This would be like slicing the tips of your fingers off. Some chickens starve to death, as they cannot eat with the excruciating pain that can last for weeks.
• They are rounded up by workers who shove them into crates and have been documented kicking them like footballs, spitting tobacco in their eyes, and breaking their legs. They sit jam-packed until they reach the slaughterhouse.
• They are clamped into shackles, often breaking their legs in the process.
  They are then passed across an electric stunner, but the voltage is so low that it doesn't render many unconcious.  Birds then have their throats slit. They are run through a tank of boiling water to make feather removal easier, and then scalded while still concious. Yes, many are alive through the entire painful procedure.
•  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 walls%u2014all while the birds were completely conscious. Workers at a KFC-supplier slaughterhouse in Maryland were documented punching frenzied, terrified birds and spiking them like footballs, among other sadistic cruelties. 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 KFC%u2019s number one supplier. A PETA undercover investigation found workers who were ripping live animals%u2019 heads off and shoddy, outdated slaughter machines cutting open birds%u2019 legs, wings, and chest cavities at this Tyson plant in Alabama.