URGENT, BURGER KING, ACTION 2 , LETTER WRITING !!!

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URGENT !!!

 

BURGER KING , MURDER KING

 

ACTION TWO

 

LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN

 

Dear Friend ,

 

The FIRST step on Burger King campaign is to sign up your

DEMONSTRATION on PETA's site to request all FREE supplies from

PETA for your important local Demonstration against Burger King .

(If you have not signed up,please click:

http://www.murderking.com/demo.html )

 

The SECOND step is the LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN

against Burger King's Cruelty to millions of animals worldwide

Please send Letter / or Fax for this very important matter !!!

We divided this email into A. B. C. D. E. Five Parts :

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A: PLEASE WRITE TO BURGER KING CORPORATION :

The sample letter is enclosed at (D) , the bottom of this email.

 

1 : Mr. Colin Storm, CEO

Burger King Corporation

17777 Old Cutler Rd.

Miami, FL 33157

Tel.: 305-378-7011

305-378-3535 (Customer Service Dept.-call collect!)

Fax: 305-378-7262

(Note: if you send fax, Please Address to: Mr. Colin Storm, CEO)

 

2: Then send a copy of the letter to Ms. Rob Doughty:

 

Ms. Rob Doughty,

Vice President of Communications and Public Relations

Burger King Corporation.

17777 Old Cutler Rd.

Miami, FL 33157

Tel.: 305-378-7011

305-378-3535 (Customer Service Dept.-call collect!)

Fax: 305-378-7262

(Note: if send a fax, Please Address to: Ms. Rob Doughty)

 

3: Also send a copy of the letter to Ms. Mikel Durham :

 

Ms. Mikel Durham,

President of Burger King North America,

Burger King Corporation.

17777 Old Cutler Rd.

Miami, FL 33157

Tel.: 305-378-7011

305-378-3535 (Customer Service Dept.-call collect!)

Fax: 305-378-7262

(Note: if send a fax, Please Address to: Ms. Mikel Durham)

 

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B: PLEASE WRITE TO NATIONAL FRANCHISEE ASSOCIATION:

 

Please also write/call the executive director of Burger King's

Franchisee Association, letting him know that the association should

take a stand with the corporation on Burger King's Cruelty to millions

of animals who are tortured, killed and used for its fast food.

You may use the same sample letter at the bottom of this email.

Write to:

 

1: Frank Capaldo, Executive Director

National Franchisee Association, Inc.

3901 Roswell Rd. N.E. Ste. 208

Marietta GA 30062

Tel.: 770-971-0808

Fax: 770-971-3799

(Note: please address to Mr. Frank Capaldo, Exec.Director)

 

 

2: Mr. Steve Lewis ,

President of the National Franchisee Asso.

3901 Roswell Rd. N.E. Ste. 208

Marietta GA 30062

Tel.: 770-971-0808

Fax: 770-971-3799

(Note:if send a fax, address to Mr. Steve Lewis, President)

 

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C : WRITE TO YOUR " LOCAL MEDIA CONTACT " :

 

When send email/letter to your local media, please simply give

them the Web sites and then ask them to write the Reports on

Cruelty to millions of animals from BURGER KING.

A small Sample letter to your local media :

 

Dear Editor/writer,

 

Burger King had refused PETA's request to treat its

millions of animals humanely . The cruelty can be

seen from the following sites :

 

http://www.murderking.com/aabuse.html (Abuse)

 

http://www.meatstinks.com , then click " Murder King " .

 

I'm requesting you to write a report on Burger King's

Cruelty to the animals. I would be very grateful to

you for your kindness, compassion, and help for

millions of suffering animals killed for your

FAST FOOD.

 

Sincerely yours,

Name,

 

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D: SAMPLE LETTER TO BURGER KING or National Franchisee

Asso Inc. :

 

 

Dear Mr. .....,

 

Due to the abuse to millions of animals used for Burger King's

Fast food, we would like to make the following basic requests to ask

Burger King to be humane to all of its animals from all your suppliers.

 

Require slaughterhouses to FULLY STUN ALL animals before they're killed:

Currently, chickens in the U.S. are not stunned before their throats are

slit, so they suffer miserably as they either bleed to death or are

boiled alive in the feather-removal scalding tanks.

 

Make sure that every slaughterhouse is subject to UNANNOUNCED

AUDITS by a qualified animal-handling expert such as McDonald's

inspector Dr. Temple Grandin and ACCOMPANIED BY DIFFERNT

ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OR ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP to

insure the " honesty " is in the entire Audit process.

Unannounced audits of all of Burger King's slaughterhouses MUST BE

MANDATORY, and those that don't measure up should be cut off.

 

Require suppliers to HUMANELY EUTHANIZE any animal who arrive

at the slaughterhouse unable to walk, with broken limbs, or in severe

pain. These animals should not be dragged or forced with an electric

prod to stumble to the kill floor, nor should they be left in " dead

piles " to die from their injuries.

 

Stop buying eggs from suppliers that give hens less than 72 SQUARE

INCHES of space per bird, and phase out purchases from suppliers that

raise hens in " battery " cages. Most egg-laying hens are crammed seven

or eight to a tiny cage and can not even stretch their wings. Battery

cages are already illegal in much of Europe.

 

Stop buying eggs from suppliers that withhold food and water in order to

increase egg production. This cruel practice, called " forced molting, "

actually starves chickens in order to force them to begin a new

egg-laying cycle.

 

Buy chickens who are raised truly free-roaming only :

Intensively reared chickens are crammed into crowded warehouses with

tens of thousands of other birds, where they have less space per bird

than a standard sheet of paper. Cutting a hole in the side of currently

used warehouses, as many so-called " free range " companies do, is not

acceptable. Chickens require a nesting area, sunning area, shelter, and

plenty of food and fresh water that is spread out far enough to prevent

the birds from fighting over it.

 

Buy chicken flesh and eggs only from suppliers that don't DEBEAK

chickens: Debeaking-slicing off the chicken's beak with a hot wire-is

the industry 's cruel response to the destruction of nature's pecking

order, which causes animals who are severely crowded to fight.

Allowing the animals to establish a natural pecking order will make

debeaking unnecessary.

 

Institute humane guidelines for catching chickens :

Offer financial incentives and penalties, based on performance, to the

employees who catch broiler chickens in the enormous sheds where they

are raised and remove laying hens from their cages, so that the birds'

delicate bones will not be broken. Close to one-third of laying hens

suffer new bone breaks when they are taken from their cages to go to

the slaughterhouse.

 

Require suppliers to stop breeding broiler chickens for weight :

Chickens' upper bodies are forced to grow so quickly that the birds'

legs cannot support their weight and consequently develop

chronic pain and bone cracks.

 

Phase out buying from farms that confine sows to stalls :

Pregnant and nursing pigs are now confined to concrete stalls so small

that they cannot even turn around. Confinement stalls for sows have been

outlawed in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Holland and are being

phased out across Europe.

 

 

The above requests are very basic for humane treatment of

millions of animals killed for Burger Kings's FAST FOOD.

 

We would be very grateful to you for your immediate action ,

kindness, compassion and help.

 

Enclosed the description of your supplier IBP slaughterhouse.

 

Sincerely Yours,

Your Name

P.S. :

The Description of Burger King's supplier IBP SLAUGHTERHOUSE:

 

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.... "

 

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(END OF THE LETTER TO BURGER KING .)

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E : If you have any question on Burger King Campaign,

Please contact :

 

PETA : Lance Morosini :

Phone: 757 622 7382 , X528

Fax: 757 628 0784 in USA.

Email: lancem

 

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References Sources :

 

http://www.meatstinks.com

http://www.murderking.com/wycd.html

http://www.murderking.com/aabuse.html (Burger King's Abuse)

 

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and big help.