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PETA protests against KFC in Chennai

          Chennai: Activists of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) staged a demonstration here today against the opening of a new KFC branch. The demonstrators gathered at Radha Krishnan Road and shouted slogans against slaughter of poultry as mark of their protest. "We are having demonstration all over the world in front of KFC by all the PETA branches, wherever we are located. The reason is KFC slaughter the most number of chickens. They slaughter 850 million chickens per year and they are doing it in a horrible and brutal way. PETA has done undercover investigation on all KFC suppliers all over the world and they have found that hundreds and thousands of chickens are craned in dark windless shades. They have no place to turn away. They do not see even their lives," said Roshni D'silva, Campaign Co-ordinator, PETA. However, the KFC defended itself saying chickens are outsourced from the reputed food suppliers, where all the standard poultry measures are taken care off. "First of all, KFC does not either grow poultry or process poultry or transport poultry. We are chicken restaurant. Our jobs start with kitchen. We make chicken products. Form the point of buying chickens, we buy it from India's most reputed chicken suppliers and they have adequate checking measures in place to make sure to the things right. In fact, they are India's largest exporter of food products outside the country. So, we buy the chickens from the best suppliers in the country," said Unnat Verma, Marketing Manager, KFC. "We also have our own checks and balance measures in place to make sure that every thing is right. Audits happen for every supply to ensure the product we are getting is absolutely right," he added. PETA alleged that chicken suppliers of KFC breed chickens with such a large number that many become crippled from the weight of their massive upper bodies. PETA's study claims that in the slaughterhouses, throats of the poultry are slit while they are still conscious and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks.
- March 21, 2007