Victory! KFC Closes for Cruelty

Published by PETA.

What do you call it when a KFC is “closed for cruelty”? A goreclosure!

 

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For more than a year, dedicated animal advocates have been holding monthly demonstrations outside a KFC in North Carolina to spread the word about KFC’s tormented chickens—and watching the restaurant’s business dwindle. Now, so many people have washed their hands of KFC’s blood that the location has recently shut down!

 

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The only thing better than vegan party food? Knowing that no chicken will ever leave that building in a KFC bucket again. Inspired to instigate a goreclosure in your community? Start organizing your own KFC protest today!

Written by Logan Scherer

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind