KFC and All Fried Chicken

Um, Lets see……Kicking the chicken….Versus…EATING the chicken….Hmmmmmmmmmmm….Which one bothers you more?

Two years ago, I saw a video taken from a hidden camera at the warehouse where they slaughter chickens; it showed how the workers kicked the chickens, stomped on them, and threw them against a wall. If that’s not torture, then I don’t know what is.

According to the literature I get from animal welfare orgs. Yes, it is true, they slaughter the chickens in a very inhumane way. Unless people boycott their chicken products, KFC is not about to clean up their act. U should object not because of the bruised meat, but for the suffering inflicted on a living creature.

From December 2004 through February 2005, a PETA undercover investigator worked on the slaughter line of a Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Heflin, Alabama. Using a hidden camera, he documented the treatment of the more than 100,000 chickens killed every day in the plant.

What the investigator saw was truly horrifying. Birds were frequently mutilated by throat-cutting machines that didn’t work properly; one bird had her skin torn entirely off her chest. Workers were instructed to rip the heads off birds who had missed the throat-cutting machines, and our investigator was told not to stop the line for missed birds. Plant employees were seen throwing dying birds around just for fun.

Photos from the investigation
PETA’s investigator also witnessed numerous birds who were scalded alive in the feather-removal tank while they were still conscious and able to feel pain. Plant managers told him that it was acceptable for 40 animals per shift to be scalded alive, and no one was reprimanded when far more than 40 birds suffered this fate during any given shift.

PETA’s investigator repeatedly expressed concern to plant supervisors about the treatment of the chickens, but his complaints were ignored. Watch the video and see for yourself the agony of these animals’ last moments.

Animal-welfare experts agree that this sort of treatment is unacceptable. Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University wrote, “This is a total FAILURE on animal welfare,” and Dr. Mohan Raj of the University of Bristol wrote that “due to the lack of appropriate legislation to protect the welfare of birds at slaughter people seem to get away with [these] cruel and unethical practices.” Indeed, chickens are not afforded any protection under any federal animal welfare legislation. The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act leaves chickens and turkeys out entirely. Read statements from these and other animal welfare experts.

As hard as it is to stomach, this sort of treatment is entirely too common in modern chicken slaughterhouses. Previous undercover investigations have turned up injured and dying birds left unattended during workers’ lunch breaks and workers who ripped animals limb from limb, threw live chickens against walls, and stomped up and down on them on the ground.

Sadly, all these abuses were entirely preventable. In 2003, PETA first contacted Tyson about a new chicken slaughter technology known as controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK), a process that replaces oxygen in the air with an inert gas such as nitrogen—which already makes up 78 percent of the air we breathe—masking the lack of oxygen and putting the birds to sleep quickly and painlessly. CAK would have eliminated all the cruelty that took place in all these investigations, from mutilation by the cutting machine to live scalding, because the birds would have been killed much earlier in the slaughter process and would not have been handled by the workers until they were dead.

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Anything mass marketed can’t be that good for you. You pay for it with your health.

But the experience of killing a chicken or turkey to be eaten later that day, where the family is involved in plucking and preparing it has a certain level of respect and appreciation that something that was prepared for you doesn’t. If a kid grows up with doing that, they usually wind up cooking at home more. A kid who is used to seeing it already prepared is usually horrified in what the process is.

If you’re a meateater, you should be able to live with the process in how an animal is killed. If not, then boycott.

yeah they like pluck all the feathers off and rip the beaks off and hang them upside down and bleed to death

I don’t really know. However I read a few of the answers and had to stop. It makes me sick to think any human could be so cruel to an animal.

I never really thought of it but it could be true for someone who is sick and demented. As far as machines not working properly as they should, all meat probably suffers from this issue. Is there a polite and unpainful way to slaughter meat for food chains and stores?

I didn’t see this on the news but hopefully that issue has been fixed and chickens are killed and processed without any cruel acts of torture before they are processed.