Guest guest Posted January 12, 2001 Report Share Posted January 12, 2001 (Please distribute this email as widely as you could , thanks. ) BURGER KING , MURDER KING PETA DECLARES BURGER KING ITS NEW TARGET ACTION ONE ORGANIZE A DEMONSTRATION. Dear Friend of animals, NOW, HERE WE GO AGAIN. As you know after your hard work and demonstration on McDonalds cruelty to its animals, McDonalds has now agreed to PETA's demands on HUMANITY to its animals killed for its " food " . Dear friend, this is a very important " partner " work. TOGETHER, YOU, ALL ACTIVISTS, ALL GROUPS and PETA all around the world will be able to help billions of sentient " food " animals to be raised and killed more humanely ! This is the First Step towards Humane purposes ! You are the one that makes it work !!! BURGER KING refused to be humane to millions of its animals. Now, the fast food giant BURGER KING is PETA's NEW TARGET ! Millions of sentient animals died in pain from birth till death for Burger Kings's fast foods worldwide. We must all act together again to push BURGER KING to make at least same humane improvements to the treatment of the animals as McDonalds did to its animals used for fast food. The first step is to ORGANIZE A DEMONSTRATION at your local or nearby Burger King Restaurants. Again, PETA WILL SUPPLY ALL FREE MATERIAL FOR YOUR DEMO : This includes LEAFLETS , POSTERS, SAMPLE NEWS RELEASES, and MEDIA LISTS (free of charge) for as many events as you are able to organize. This might be as simple as one person distributing leaflets or dozens of people with costumes, bullhorns, street theater, video, and so on. Remember that one person leafleting makes a big difference to the people going to Burger King. REMEMBER: TO BE VERY POLITE !!! Please Make sure to be on the Public Property ! It is important if you can get the NEWSPAPER and/or local TV STATIONS to cover your event, you can reach thousands (or millions) more customers. Now, please click the following web site for your local DEMONSTRATION so that PETA will be able to help you with your demonstration work : http://www.murderking.com/demo.html (Please read the whole letter and then go to the bottom to enter your name, and/or group name, address, phone # , email address , place of demo etc. then hit " Submit Your Demonstration " . ) (Note : If in case there is any problem, you may need to get out of the Browser, then hit " Refresh " , then type above web site again to get in.) If there is any problem with entering your information, please contact : PETA webmaster: at webmaster (at peta-online.org) If you have questions on Demonstration : please contact : Lance : lancem (at peta-online.org ) If you need more info on the Burger King campaign : please review : http://www.peta-online.org/news/0101/0101bklaunch.html http://www.meatstinks.com (click " Murder King " ) If you still have questions, please call PETA (in U.S.A.) at : 757-622-7382 then hit " 0 " to get the operator between 8:30am to 6 Pm eastern time in USA. Thanks so much for your compassion, kindness and action for billions of animals in excruciating pain and suffering worldwide. Sincerely Yours , Citizens concerns. P.S.: BURGER KING'S SUPPLIERS IBP SLAUGHTERHOUSE COMMON PRACTICE ARE DOCUMENTED IN THE FOLLOWING : On May 24, 2000, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired a news story that exposed unbelievable acts of animal cruelty and blatant violations of state and federal humane slaughter laws at the IBP cattle slaughterhouse in Wallula, WA. The piece was the result of a year-long undercover investigation by The Humane Farming Association. On May 31, a coalition of animal protection, consumer, and worker organizations held a press conference to further expose the issue. Following the press conference, a " Petition for Enforcement of Humane Slaughter and Animal Cruelty Laws " was presented to the office of Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregoire. The petition requests the Attorney General to initiate enforcement action against IBP-Wallula to remedy the demonstrated threats to animal welfare and worker safety and to prosecute the company for the demonstrated violations of state and federal requirements. Affidavits from numerous IBP-Wallula slaughterhouse workers were included with the petition. Following are excerpts from some of those affidavits: INEFFECTIVE STUNNING: At IBP-Wallula, stun operators are often unable to render cattle unconscious, as evidenced by the following affidavits: Affidavit #6, paragraphs 5 and 9: " There's a problem for me with knocking the cows. The chain goes too fast, more than 300 cows an hour....If I can't get the animal knocked right, it keeps going....The chain doesn't stop. It keeps running. It never stops. The cows are getting hung alive or not alive. They keep coming in. They just keep coming, coming, coming. " Affidavit #3, paragraph 7: " The problem in the knocking box is that you have to work real fast because the chain is too fast and the animals that come into the box are jumping everywhere. And sometimes...you don't shoot the cow really right. And you let him go like that. And the shacklers, they get them like that, and so they shackle them alive.... " Affidavit #4, paragraph 4: " The majority of the time, the knockers are in such a hurry that they can't knock the cows good enough. Some of the cows get up and run around chasing. When cows are hung alive on the chain, they look like they are trying to get unhooked to run. " Affidavit #3, paragraph 4: " I estimate that 30 percent of the cows are not properly knocked and get to the first legger alive....To still be alive at the second legger the cows have gone alive from the knocker to the sticker to the belly ripper (he cuts the hide down the center of the cow's abdomen) to the tail ripper (he opens the [rectum]) to the first legger (he skins a back leg and then cuts off the foot) to the first butter (he skins from the breast to the belly and a little bit on the back) to the worker who cuts off both front feet. Those cows then go to a worker who sticks a hook into the joint where the first legger took off the foot and the cows are hung from the trolley hook. I can tell that these cows are alive because they're holding their heads up and a lot of times they make noise. " Affidavit #6, paragraph 6, 7, 8: " ...All the workers can open the legs, the stomach, the neck, cut off the feet while the cow is breathing. It makes noise...And the cattle go down the line for many minutes and they're still alive. They cut the legs and everything. The cattle move their eyes and their nose. They're looking around. " Sometimes the supervisor comes and works on the live cows. They don't want workers to stop the chain, so when the live cows are really active, workers are supposed to honk the horn and the supervisor will come to help them skin the live cow.... " I would estimate that one out of ten cows is still alive when it's bled and skinned. " Affidavit #8, paragraph 4: " About thirty percent of the cows are still alive down the line. Sometimes more. I would see that they would be hanging there, trying to pick up their heads, they would move back and forth on the shackle, they would be blinking their eyes and looking around. You know they're alive because they are breathing real hard, they make noise, they kick the other cows, and it moves the whole chain. " WORKER INJURIES : Affidavit #10, paragraph 3: " I got kicked in the jaw by a cow that had been knocked but it was still alive. They had already knocked the cow and it was still alive and it kicked me under the chin. I received seven stitches for that. " Affidavit #16, paragraph 23: " There are accidents because the cows are still alive. At the back hoof, the cow was kicking and it cut off one worker's three fingers. The cows are kicking and jumping and everything. And the company didn't save the fingers, so the worker lost them.... " Affidavit #17, paragraph 2: " ...I had two accidents because the cows were still alive at the first legger and they kicked me in my face twice. The first time I went on nine months of light duty because I got kicked in the face. My lips were cut and my teeth were driven up into my mouth. Because of these accidents...I moved from the first leg to the second legger.... Unfortunately, the cows are still alive at the second legger. " CONTAMINATED MEAT Affidavit #4, paragraph 5: " It's real hard to do your job because the cows are moving at the same time you're trying to do your job....Sometimes you can't even do your job not only because the cows are alive, but because the chain is running so fast. Even though I'm supposed to trim contaminants, you don't have time to clean all the pus, shit, hair, and dirt off the cows. " Affidavit #2, paragraph 21: " Sometimes when the cows have manure on them and the cows are alive usually it's the supervisor who holds the legs so the workers can do their jobs and the cows pulls or something and the supervisor has to let go of it, the skin flips around and gets manure off the cow's skin, and you can see that the meat is all green and all dirty from the manure. The meat gets dirty with manure because the skin is dirty and the cows are kicking. " Affidavit #7, paragraph 11: " I see cows with a lot of contamination. A lot of pus. Because the inspector's not watching. And there's a lot of contamination on the floor. All the cows that are passing by, they're getting contaminated too. And then USDA doesn't go out there and watch them any more.... " ### IMPORTANT References site : 1: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010109/2973314s.htm ANIMAL-RIGHTS GROUP SEEKS CHANGES BY BURGER KING , USA TODAY, January 9, 2001 2: http://www.murderking.com/more.html http://www.meatstinks.com , http://www.meatstinks.com/VegKit/meetmeat.html 3: http://www.hfa.org/campaign.html 4: http://www.king5.com/investigators/storydetail.html?StoryID=1386 5: http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/cows01m_20000601.html 6: http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/cattle1.htm 7: http://www.nodowners.org/gallery/route87_2.htm 8: http://www.meatstinks.com/c1.jpg 9: http://www.meatstinks.com/c6.jpg 10: http://www.peta-online.org/image/veg/f2.jpg 11: http://www.meatstinks.com/c7.jpg 12: http://www.farmusa.org ------------------ Thanks so much for your compassion and help. 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