Kfc And Animal Cruelty

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It’s that time of the week. The Smith family has one night a week set out where the whole family goes out to eat at a restaurant the family votes on. This week, the family has voted on KFC. Now most see KFC as a friendly environment with good food and a sense of Southern hospitality, but those people don’t see the dark secret KFC has behind closed doors. Many would never guess that KFC’s sponsoring slaughterhouses are where chickens go to be tortured and then killed in the most inhumane manner. Not only do KFC chicken suppliers, YUM!, Tyson, and Pilgrim’s Pride, mistreat these chickens, but the area where they slaughter these chickens is unsanitary and the chickens are pumped with steroids or genetically mutated so they can sell the poultry for cheaper prices to grocery stores or restaurants like KFC. America is known as the land of the free and the home of the brave. America stresses that it is unconstitutional to cause cruel and unusual punishment to any living being, but why are the slaughterhouses in America being turned into torture chambers for innocent animals? From the article “What the Investigator Saw” by the anonymous hidden investigator planted by PETA to work at Pilgrim’s Pride Slaughterhouse, the investigator found over twenty accounts of animal cruelty among the employees in an eight-month period. The investigator witnessed incidences where chickens were being punted like footballs against walls. Chickens were constantly being thrown against walls, jumped on, and beaten. On 9 April 2004, the investigator reported an employee placing a latex glove over the head of a live chicken, and watched her as she suffocated. On the date of 17 November 2003, another employee squeezed two chickens so hard that feces actually squirted out of them. The employee went on to aim the feces at other live chickens, saying “They s**t all over us
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