Update on PETA's Investigation of KFC - Help is Needed

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Last July's undercover investigation revealed shocking cruelty at

a

KFC-supplying slaughterhouse in Moorefield, West Virginia. Workers

were caught on video stomping on live chickens, ripping their wings,

legs, and beaks off, and committing other acts of hideous cruelty.

The PETA investigator's video was played around the world and led

to

firing of workers, reform measures by Pilgrim's Pride (the global

corporation that owned the plant) and tens of thousands of requests

for PETA's vegetarian starter kit.

 

On January 11, 2005, Ginny Conley, head of a West Virginia state

prosecutors organization, told the Associated Press that criminal

charges would not be filed " due to the fact that these were

chickens

in a slaughterhouse. " She also said that the abuse " needs to

be

handled more on a regulatory end than prosecuting someone

criminally, " even though there are absolutely no federal or state

regulations dealing with humane poultry slaughter and despite the

fact that these sadistic acts were clear violations of the

state's

cruelty-to-animals statute.

 

PETA was previously successful in convincing prosecutors in North

Carolina and Oklahoma to file felony charges after their undercover

investigations revealed horrific treatment of pigs in factory farms

there; the convictions that followed sent a strong message to the

factory farm industry that just because an animal is in a factory

farm, transport truck, or slaughterhouse does not mean that

" humane

standards " can be ignored.

 

Please contact the governor and governor-elect of West Virginia to

politely ask that they use their full authority to ensure that a

special prosecutor is appointed, as requested by the judge in the

case:

 

Governor Bob Wise

Governor-Elect Joe Manchin

Office of the Governor

State Capitol Complex

1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.

Charleston, WV 25305

 

304-558-2000 (outside West Virginia)

 

1-888-438-2731 (within West Virginia)

 

304-558-2722 (fax)

 

Governor