HORROR IN A BUCKET
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: KILEY BLACKMAN
[email protected]
www.adow.org
May 17, 2003 White Plains, NY On Saturday, May 17, 2003
members of Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW) will join with People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for a demonstration at Kentucky
Fried Chicken, 2038 Central Avenue, Yonkers, from 2 - 4 p.m. , to protest
their refusal to adopt humane standards for animals, and related public
health issues.
According to employee testimony, KFC workers routinely
stomp chickens, run over them with forklifts, and explode dry ice in their
mouths and rectums. An electric stun bath, which is supposed to render the
birds unconscious before their throats are cut and they go into a bath of
scalding water, is frequently turned off; and because the line moves so
quickly, the knife misses many birds, and they go into the water fully
conscious - they "...scream, kick, their eyes pop out of their heads, body
parts are torn off as they struggle to get out..."
A regular day at Tyson, which supplies KFC, finds
thousands of birds crammed into a small enclosed room, the air putrid with
ammonia; sick, crippled dead birds lay scattered among the living, left to
rot. They are fed huge amounts of antibiotics and hormones - three times as
much as cows or humans - to kill the diseases that run rampant as a result
of the unsanitary conditions. The antibiotics are then passed on to us when
we eat chicken flesh. Studies are being conducted to ascertain a correlation
between food handling and various diseases, including SARS.
Kiley Blackman, organizer of this event, said "Chickens
feel pain and suffering exactly like humans do. With so many delicious
dining alternatives, why anyone would contribute to such cruelty and
disease, for a mouthful of food that is forgotten an hour later, is beyond
me. If people could see what is really in KFC's bucket, they'd run
screaming."
