Firstly because I wouldn’t want to eat the meat of something that spent its life staggering around in its own excrement. Hens don’t do this when they aren’t forced to.

Secondly because when you eat a chicken that’s been pumped full of hormones (to make it bigger)and antibiotics (to keep it healthy while it wades through s***), that’s what goes into your system. You could be damaging yourself.

Thirdly, I’m reliably informed by my meat-eating family that ‘happy’ chickens are tasty chickens. They don’t need hormones and water injections to get bigger; they just run around outside and build up their muscles naturally.

bonnie,

Plus the chicken there tastes icky anyway from what I recall.

but its not really a whole companies fault for one of their stores accidently selling bad chicken and that has nothing at all to do with the animal crulty that is supposidly inflicted on these animals. The place you got your info from is just one place thats the thing and to many they think PETA(the people who sell this bs) are well bsing their info. and i can not say weather it is true or now but i do beilive we have to investigate before we just decide on something

I am not a fan of the American based PETA organization because of some of their methods to get the word out on animal cruelty.
I think that finding out where wealthy women who may be wearing a fur coat will be, then showing up, and then either throwing blood all over the woman and coat, throwing buckets of cream on them or a bucket of paint, is not the way to go about spreading their message.
While wearing a fur coat is cruelty to animals, doing any of the things mentioned above is cruel to their fellow human beings. They place the lives of every animal above the lives of people.
They have even done some things that could have seriously injured the person they were after for wearing fur, like throwing a bucket of bleach on a woman once, could have very easily blinded the woman and scalded her face and throat permanently.

But the fact remains that chicken farms, heck, any farm/plant that raises an animal for consumption, takes drastic measures to insure the animal is large so it can produce a lot of meat but be in terrible health, and they all do process these animals for our consumption in ways which are very cruel and extremely tragic.

But it also remains that we people continue to eat meat, all kinds of meat, chicken, beef, pork, deer, moose, fish, and shellfish.
The only way to stop all of these cruel animal deaths, is to somehow get every single human being the entire world over, to stop eating all forms of meat at the same time and refuse to ever eat it again.

That will never happen.
And know how I know?
Because even knowing what the disease mad cow can do in humans, people still eat it the world over.
Bird flu? We still eat poultry?
Red tide? Oil spills? We still consume large quantities of sea life.

We may be able to take out one or two eateries like KFC by refusing to buy their brand, but we still have Chick fil-A, and a whole slew of other poultry specialized eateries to take their place.

I am not a fan of the American based PETA organization because of some of their methods to get the word out on animal cruelty.
I think that finding out where wealthy women who may be wearing a fur coat will be, then showing up, and then either throwing blood all over the woman and coat, throwing buckets of cream on them or a bucket of paint, is not the way to go about spreading their message.
While wearing a fur coat is cruelty to animals, doing any of the things mentioned above is cruel to their fellow human beings. They place the lives of every animal above the lives of people.
They have even done some things that could have seriously injured the person they were after for wearing fur, like throwing a bucket of bleach on a woman once, could have very easily blinded the woman and scalded her face and throat permanently.

But the fact remains that chicken farms, heck, any farm/plant that raises an animal for consumption, takes drastic measures to insure the animal is large so it can produce a lot of meat but be in terrible health, and they all do process these animals for our consumption in ways which are very cruel and extremely tragic.

But it also remains that we people continue to eat meat, all kinds of meat, chicken, beef, pork, deer, moose, fish, and shellfish.
The only way to stop all of these cruel animal deaths, is to somehow get every single human being the entire world over, to stop eating all forms of meat at the same time and refuse to ever eat it again.

That will never happen.
And know how I know?
Because even knowing what the disease mad cow can do in humans, people still eat it the world over.
Bird flu? We still eat poultry?
Red tide? Oil spills? We still consume large quantities of sea life.

We may be able to take out one or two eateries like KFC by refusing to buy their brand, but we still have Chick fil-A, and a whole slew of other poultry specialized eateries to take their place.

If you want to attack me personally, the correct place for that is on my blog, where I will respond to your complaints by deleting your comments.

If you want to attack me personally, the correct place for that is on my blog, where I will respond to your complaints by deleting your comments.

I say unresearched, because you so willingly jumped onto PETA's bandwagon without checking to see what KFC has to say about it or whether there are other articles about this matter that are relevant.

While it is your blog and you are perfectably permitted to post whatever you like (barring any objections and hinderances to Free Speech by the HRC), I have to wonder why you did not pause for a moment to wonder if PETA's allegations were false or did not apply to us here in South Africa.

I have to wonder why you would shortcut all the reasoning and processing that intelligent writers submit themselves to, usually. I think emotion probably dictated to you. I understand how that can happen. I've written a few emotionally fueled blog posts myself.

I think it's fair to say, though, that in future anyone would be well advised to double check anything coming from PETA, because that organisation generates propaganda for a living.

I say unresearched, because you so willingly jumped onto PETA’s bandwagon without checking to see what KFC has to say about it or whether there are other articles about this matter that are relevant.

While it is your blog and you are perfectably permitted to post whatever you like (barring any objections and hinderances to Free Speech by the HRC), I have to wonder why you did not pause for a moment to wonder if PETA’s allegations were false or did not apply to us here in South Africa.

I have to wonder why you would shortcut all the reasoning and processing that intelligent writers submit themselves to, usually. I think emotion probably dictated to you. I understand how that can happen. I’ve written a few emotionally fueled blog posts myself.

I think it’s fair to say, though, that in future anyone would be well advised to double check anything coming from PETA, because that organisation generates propaganda for a living.