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PETA's "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" campaign is to stop the cruelty the chickens face before they are killed and then cooked up for KFC. It is a fact that KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can't even walk, and often break their wings and legs. They are then killed in inhuman ways by slitting their throats and then they are dropped into tanks of boiling hot water most of them still alive and conscious.

Can you see why PETA is campaigning against KFC? It is also a fact that KFCs own animal welfare advisers have asked the company to take some steps to help eliminate the abuse, but KFC refuses to do so. Many of the advisers have now resigned in frustration in KFC's unwilling to treat the chickens fairly.

There are many celebrities that are supporting PETA's campaign against KFC, such as...
Pamela Anderson
Sir Paul McCartney
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Al Sharpton (the Rev.)
Anoushka Shankar (sitarist)
Pink (singer)
Black Eyed Peas (band)
Good Charlotte (band)

The list is growing and you can be a part of it by avoiding eating at KFC. There is a petition that the singer Pink got going for people to sign to help stop the abuse of these chickens. Go to ~ http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelt y.com/
and you can add your signature to the petition.

It is a fact that KFC is responsible for 850 million birds killed each year in an inhuman way. PETA is not asking KFC to close its doors or anything like that, just asking them to treat their chickens better and not so cruel. PETA even warned KFC before they started looking into how they treated the birds. Many other chicken competitive restaurant's did take the issue of how to raise and slaughter its chickens more humanely and they continue to do so. Where as KFC was not interested at all and never even cared to look into this issue.

Since birds aren't included in the only federal law that protect animals at slaughter it is not against the law for KFC to treat their birds this way. Even though birds are 98 percent of the animals eaten in the U.S. alone they are still not included in the federal law. It is KFC's responsibility to make sure they treat their chickens with at least a little respect, after all if it was not for these chickens there would be no KFC.

SO KFC shows no signs of changing there are things that we can do. Boycott KFC and sign the petition. If enough people will do this then KFC will have to open up their eyes and change their ways. It is not fair for any animal to have to be treated this way only for a profit in the end. If they are getting rich of off those poor chickens then they should show them a little decency when they are still alive.

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