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Those so-called protestors, if really want to enhance animal welfare, should jolly well convert to vegetarians.
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June 4, 2008
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+N...ry_244266.html
KFC Canada to adopt new chicken slaughter method
NORFOLK (Virginia) - KENTUCKY Fried Chicken franchisees in Canada have reached an agreement with animal rights activists to buy chickens for their restaurants from suppliers who use a more humane method of slaughter than throat slitting.
The Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said it has ended a protest campaign as a result of the agreement.
The deal with Vaughan, Ontario-based Priszm Income Fund affects all of Canada's roughly 750 KFC restaurants because Priszm acted on behalf of KFC franchisees in Canada, the group said. Priszm owns 485 restaurants.
'The ethical treatment of chickens is important to us, which is why we took proactive steps to work with Peta to enhance our animal welfare standards and policies,' KFC Canada President Steve Langford said in a statement.
Under an agreement with Peta signed May 5, KFC Canada will phase in over eight years the use of 'controlled-atmosphere killing' for all chickens bought for its restaurants. Peta calls that the 'least-cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed.'
The 'CAK' method involves removing oxygen from crates that carry chickens and replacing it with inert gases such as argon or nitrogen, Peta spokesman Matt Prescott said on Tuesday. The birds do not suffocate but die painlessly as they breathe the gases, he said.
Peta is calling on KFC's parent company in the United States, Yum Brands in Louisville, Ky., to make the same changes as KFC Canada.
The organization already has held more than 12,000 protests at KFC restaurants worldwide.
Yum Brands said in a statement that it has strict animal welfare standards for its suppliers. -- AP
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Those so-called protestors, if really want to enhance animal welfare, should jolly well convert to vegetarians.
Its just plain stupid.Originally Posted by Ah_ZhaN
They should however let the chicken sign an agreement as prove that they are aware and agree to be killed as food (which would states individual's plight such as they would be served steam, fried, boiled etc). A lawyer must of be present as witness.
A Will or Deed would be much appreciated too.
Wah piang! I hate PETA!
I'm worried about this partWhat will happen to me when I eat those chickens??!!!The 'CAK' method involves removing oxygen from crates that carry chickens and replacing it with inert gases such as argon or nitrogen
Yeah.... then the next stage of activists will contest these ..
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bro, you are breathing those gases everyday la...Wah piang! I hate PETA!
I'm worried about this part
What will happen to me when I eat those chickens??!!!
composition of our air:
Nitrogen 78.084%
Oxygen 20.947%
Argon 0.934%
Carbon Dioxide 0.033%
other inert gases 0.002%
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Chickens breathe the same air as us so how would giving them nitrogen and argon going to kill them? A much higher dosage?
When a chicken is going to die, it is going to die. Don't eat chicken and turn vegetarian if we truly wish to be humane.
Yours Truly, Avan
I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau
aren't vegetables living things too?don't they breathe, eat and sleep?
so how does eating vegetables make vegetarians less of a murderer?
p.s zyblack bro, not aiming at you, just think that those people who turn vegetarians because of supposed animal cruelty are a little shallow from my POV.
chicken is to be created for human's food =)
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