AR-News: Something for Kate joins PETA campaign against KFC

[Bruce Friedrich]

Note: This band is about the biggest thing in Australia. They won several
categories in the Aussie Rolling Stone Reader's Poll, which is featured in
the current issue. They were voted by readers as Best Band of 2003, and they
also got Best Single and Best Video.
>From their Web site:
http://www.somethingforkate.com/newsTours/home.do?newsId=20030829000566
Something for Kate protest against KFC

Something for Kate have joined international animal rights group PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in their campaign against KFC.
The band have just posed for a photoshoot in a perspex box to highlight the
lack of space and abusive treatment given to chickens on KFC farms. Look out
for the ad campaign directed at KFC and featuring Something for Kate in the
coming months. Here's some more info about the campaign against KFC: 


In 1997, in response to a court verdict in the UK that held that McDonald?s
is ?culpably responsible? for egregious cruelty to animals that, according
to the judge, would shock and horrify any kind person, People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) launched a campaign focused on changing
McDonald?s practices. Three years later, McDonald?s made changes that were
completely unprecedented and which world-renowned (Australian) philosopher
Peter Singer called the biggest changes for animals in 30 years. 


While PETA was campaigning against McDonald?s, it began discussions with
KFC, which agreed to hire all four of the people PETA recommended as animal
welfare advisors. Things were looking good. However, after two years of
talking, and no action or serious commitments at all to improve life for
even one animal, PETA declared a campaign against KFC?a campaign that has,
thus far, included more than 2,500 demonstrations and the support of
celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Sir Paul McCartney, notable civil
rights activists in the U.S., and ourselves. 


Basically, KFC kills more than 750 million animals every year. The animals
are bred and drugged so that they grow about six times as fast as they did
just 50 years ago, so that they can barely walk and they often cripple and
die. Their sheds stink of feces and urine and the chickens suffer from all
kinds of diseases and lung problems. At slaughter, they have their throats
sliced open while they're still conscious. We've joined with PETA to try to
convince KFC to make some changes (basic stuff, recommended by their own
scientists), but KFC is refusing. 


Undercover investigations from all over the world, including Australia, the
UK, and the U.S., reveal the same thing?horrific cruelty described by the
Sunday Mirror, one of the biggest newspapers in the world as, ?Distressed
and dying in a cramped shed: Nobody does chicken like KFC.? [hyperlink:
http://www.kfccruelty.com/ukinvest.html] 


To find out more about PETA, KFC, and what you can do to help, please visit
www.KFCCruelty.com . 


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