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Victory in fight with Canadian KFC

I got this in an email.  It seems like PETA is making progress making KFC a better entity in Canada.  I wish the American KFC's would do the same!

"Dear TinTexas,

I have great news! Thanks to the help of PETA's more than 2 million members and supporters, we've just scored a major victory for chickens killed by fast-food chain KFC.

Following more than five years of intense campaigning, numerous undercover investigations, and over 12,000 demonstrations against KFC around the world, I'm happy to announce that KFC Canada will be making sweeping changes to the ways it raises and kills chickens slaughtered for its restaurants.
KFC Canada agreed to this historic new animal welfare plan following seven months of closed-door negotiations with PETA. With today's announcement, the company plans to do the following: 

Phase in purchases of 100 percent of its chickens from suppliers that use controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK)—the least cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed. KFC Canada is the first major restaurant chain to commit to phasing in the exclusive purchasing of chicken meat from CAK slaughterhouses.

Make a vegan faux-chicken item available at the majority of KFC restaurants in Canada.  (Emphasis mine.)

Improve its animal welfare criteria to reduce the number of broken bones and other injuries suffered by birds.

Urge its suppliers to adopt better practices, including improved lighting, lower stocking density and ammonia levels, and a phaseout of growth-promoting drugs and breeding practices that painfully cripple chickens.

Form an animal welfare advisory panel to monitor the changes and recommend further advancements."

The rest of the email is, of course, a plea for contributions.  What I do is keep a tally of how many BBQ fund raisers I turn down and when I would have spent $50 on them, I send that money to PETA.  I'm half-way there in just over two months since my last contribution.  I think I've said "no" to four of them.  Every church in town raises money by serving rotting barbecued flesh!

Wow! This is great TT! You know--I am a member of PETA's street team and have done tons of demos for them and they didn't even bother to send this email to me--I feel so betrayed!!! *OK--that was a bit dramatic--but still!*

Anyways--I hope these changes and more get made in the U.S.!

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I think that it's great, too. Hopefully, other countries will follow soon enough.

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Yeah, this is great. But it's not going to make me spend my money at KFC (on their new vegan option, whatever that'll be).

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Yeah, this is great. But it's not going to make me spend my money at KFC (on their new vegan option, whatever that'll be).

Same.  It's a good thing, definitely, but it also makes my brain hurt a little bit.  I probably won't ever eat there. 

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