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| SLAUGHTERED ‘CHICKENS’ DISPLAYED TO PROTEST KFC CRUELTY IN SYRACUSE |
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PETA Campaign Heats Up After Negotiations Collapse For Immediate Release: Contact: Syracuse, N.Y. — Holding signs that read, "The Colonel’s Secret Recipe: Live Scalding, Painful Debeaking, Crippled Chickens," and displaying an assembly line of "chickens" with "blood" dripping from their slit throats, members of PETA will protest the abusive treatment of animals by KFC suppliers at a local KFC restaurant. The protest is part of an international campaign launched by PETA after years of failed negotiations with KFC’s parent corporation, Yum! Brands: Date: Thursday, April 14 After more than two years of protests, billboards, and television ads calling on KFC to stop abuses such as searing the beaks off birds without painkillers and scalding chickens to death in the slaughterhouse, PETA and KFC recently arranged a secret meeting brokered by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. During the meeting, KFC agreed to prepare an action plan based on the recommendations of five mutually agreed-upon industry animal welfare scientists. In return, PETA agreed to a secret campaign moratorium. Each expert endorsed PETA’s four-point animal welfare program, but KFC ignored their recommendations, so PETA has relaunched its campaign. PETA has had additional high-profile support from Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama, rock icon Sir Paul McCartney, actors Pamela Anderson and Bea Arthur, former KFC spokesperson Jason Alexander, hip-hop legends The Beastie Boys, and civil-rights leaders Alice Walker, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume, Dick Gregory, and Dr. Cornel West. "KFC stands for cruelty in our book," says PETA Director of Vegan Campaigns Bruce Friedrich. "If Yum! executives treated cats or dogs the way they treat chickens, they could go to prison on felony cruelty-to-animals charges." For more information, please visit PETA’s Web site KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.
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