Report: Fast food giants condemned for putting chickens through ‘chronic pain and stressful slaughter’
The report found an almost-universal disregard for improving welfare for chickens among global fast food companies, including: KFC, McDonald's, Nando's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Subway and Domino's Pizza.
SARA MALM: ‘The world’s biggest fast food chains are subjecting chickens to ‘chronic pain’ in factory-style farms around the globe, a report has found. The World Animal Protection (WAP) found ‘an almost-universal disregard’ for improving welfare for chickens among global fast food companies… They include: KFC, McDonald’s, Nando’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Subway and Domino’s Pizza’s two European and US companies…
The nine companies in the WAP report were assessed based on what policies they have on chicken welfare, what targets they have set to achieve this, and how they report on their progress… The organisation’s ‘Pecking Order’ report claimed that as a result, some of the billions of chickens sold at fast food chains such as Burger King and McDonald’s had ‘endured stressful and painful deaths’…
Around 60 billion chickens are raised for meat around the world every year. Two thirds of meat-chickens, also known as broilers, live on so-called ‘factory farms’. Modern broilers have been bred specifically to grow at an alarming rate, so that they reach the ideal slaughter weight after little over a month. They are slaughtered after around 40 days, at which point they have grown at such speed that they are the size of a three-month old chicken’. SOURCE…
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