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PETA protests against cruelty to chicken

          Chandigarh: The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists, dressed like dying chickens, demonstrated outside the American fast food outlet Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) here on Thursday. They were protesting against the cruel methods used to kill the chicken. Carrying placards and banners, many even splashed blood all over the bodies in a bid to show the pain caused to chicken when they underwent the cruel slaughtering process at KFC. Activists alleged that the chickens were kept in traumatic conditions and were killed mercilessly. "PETA has been for the last three years negotiating with KFC asking them to improve and implement animal welfare standards. But they have done nothing to change the welfare of animals in their supply farms," Roshni D'Silva, KFC campaign coordinator. "PETA has done undercover investigations that in all KFC supply farms all over the world continuously thousands of chickens are cramped in dirty small cages and they can't even turn around. Neither can they spread their wings or move a bit. "In fact, because of the stress, they keep pecking each other resulting in them killing each other," she said. Though the outlet shut after the protest began, KFC has always maintained it is committed to humane treatment of chickens. In 1995 when KFC first opened in its outlet in India in Bangalore, it was hit by protests from farmers' groups who were against increasing globalisation. In the same year the company was accused by voluntary organisations of serving chicken with high levels of monosodium glutamate and was forced to close its New Delhi outlet.
- February 8, 2007