KFC Canada takes steps for a kinder future

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For more than five years, PETA US has pressured fast-food chain KFC to ensure its suppliers halt the worst abuses of chickens, including scalding birds to death, cutting their throats while they're still conscious, and drugging and breeding them to grow so large that they become crippled beneath their own weight.

Following months of closed-door negotiations between PETA US and KFC Canada, which is owned by a different company than KFC restaurants in other countries, we are thrilled to announce that the company has agreed to a historic new animal welfare plan that will dramatically improve the lives and deaths of millions of chickens killed for KFC Canada. The company will take the following actions:

Phase in purchases of 100 per cent of its chicken meat from suppliers that use controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK) – the least cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed.
KFC Canada is the first major restaurant chain to commit to phasing in the exclusive purchasing of chicken meat from CAK slaughterhouses.
Add a vegan faux-chicken item to the menu of all 461 Priszm-owned KFC restaurants (more than half the KFCs in Canada).
Improve its animal welfare audit criteria to reduce the number of broken bones and other injuries suffered by birds at the hands of KFC Canada's suppliers.
Urge its suppliers to adopt better practices, including improved lighting, lower stocking-density and ammonia levels, and a phase-out of growth-promoting drugs and breeding practices that painfully cripple chickens.
Form an animal welfare advisory panel to monitor the changes and recommend further advancements.
PETA US has scored a major victory and is ending its boycott of KFC in Canada. However, the boycott will continue in other countries where KFC has restaurants, including the UK, until those KFCs follow KFC Canada's lead.

This is wonderful news for chickens and our supporters. However, outside Canada, KFC has not acted to stop the worst abuses of chickens. Please pledge to boycott these restaurants until they take action.

Sincerely

PETA Europe

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Take it as you will but for me thats atleast a good step in the right direction and I hope the rest follow suite.

[Justin]

Wow, we had KFC last night. I mean, we became vegetarians. But my 5 years old daughter was insisting on it to her mom. So my wife bought it just this once. She had a discount coupon too. I found it when I got home... and I ate it too. You know, it was already there...

But afterward, We all reviewed chicken section in "Animal Factories" together. And I explained her the bad things in more detail. I hope we won't go to KFC again.

[Sammy and Peanut]

It's not right for killing chickens for our consuming purposes anyway, but at least they cut down on SOME of the cruelty.