For Immediate Release:
March 10, 2008

Contact:
Ashley Byrne 757-622-7382

New York - Sitting cramped together in cages and holding signs that read, "KFC Tortures Chicks," six PETA beauties wearing yellow bikinis will protest outside a New York City KFC restaurant over KFC suppliers' abusive treatment of chickens in factory farms and slaughterhouses, while other PETA members hand out leaflets.

Date: Tuesday, March 11
Time: 12 noon
Place: KFC, 242 E. 14th St. (between Second and Third avenues), Manhattan

The roughly 1 billion chickens killed every year for KFC are tortured in ways that would result in felony cruelty-to-animals charges if other animals were the victims. They are drugged and bred to grow so large that many become crippled from the weight of their massive upper bodies. Their throats are slit while they are still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks. KFC ignored recommendations for animal welfare improvements made by members of its own advisory panel, including five who have since resigned in frustration.

"We'll "heat" things up a little to help customers see exactly what cold-hearted KFC does to make birds' lives and deaths painful," says PETA 'chick' Ashley Byrne. "Lots of kind people will go find another place to eat when they see our video and hear our appeal."

For more information and to view PETA's KFC video narrated by Pamela Anderson, please visit KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.