June 2008

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• press

  click for link to article on nytimes.com

  In the past month, two new reports have examined how farm animals are raised in this country. The report funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts calls the prevailing system “industrial farm animal production.” The report from the Union of Concerned Scientists prefers the term “confined animal feeding operations.”

  No matter what you call it, it adds up to the same thing. Millions of animals are crowded together in inhumane conditions, causing significant environmental threats and unacceptable health risks for workers, their neighbors and all the rest of us.

  The astonishing increase in the number and size of confined animal operations has been spawned largely by the very structure of American …

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  New York Times - The Worst Way of Farming

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

• Animals, news, press

  http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/01/5739946.html

  

  ‘Kentucky Fried Cruelty’ comes to an end
  Vegan `chicken’ on menu as KFC Canada pledges better animal welfare to end protest

  By COLIN PERKEL, The Canadian Press

  TORONTO — Following a five-year roasting by animal-rights activists, KFC Canada is promising improved welfare for the chickens it buys for its fast-food outlets in exchange for an end to a boycott campaign that will continue in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  The Canadian Press has learned that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has agreed to call off its Canadian “Kentucky Fried Cruelty� campaign, which featured high-profile actress Pamela Anderson among others, following a signed agreement with the company.

  Among other things, the deal obliges KFC Canada to begin …

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  ‘Kentucky Fried Cruelty’ comes to an end

  06.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

• news

  *this comes after five and a half years of intense campaigning and 7 months of negotiations

  *KFC Canada is run separately from KFC in other countries, and is feeling major heat about their bold move from the world hq in Louisville.

  *According to our deal, KFC Canada will do the following:

  * Purchase 100 percent of its chickens, through a phase-in plan, from suppliers that use controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK)—the least cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed. This will prevent live-scalding, sadistic abuse by workers (since with CAK, workers never even touch live birds), broken bones, painful electric shocks, live throat slitting and other abuses. AND this is the first time any company has committed to a total phase in of CAK. What’s …

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  few more details on kfc canada win

  06.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?