PETA has a busy week
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It’s been a busy week (so far) for PETA.
UPI reports that KFC Canada has bowed to five years of pressure ... from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ... on the way its chickens are slaughtered:
From its headquarters in Norfolk, Va., the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has pressured the global chain since 2003 to end the practice of slaughtering the fowl using electric shocks, the Canwest News Service reported. After seven months of talks with the food retailer at its headquarters north of Toronto in Vaughn, KFC Canada president Steve Langford said the company had agreed to have its suppliers switch to a system in which oxygen is replaced with other gases to render the birds unconscious before slaughter, the report said.
In the meantime, those wacky folks of PETA have an idea for folks who are distressed about the concept of boiling and eating lobsters.
PETA would like to turn a century-old county jail in Maine into a “lobster empathy center.” According to MaineToday, the county jail is up for sale as the sheriff, staff and inmates prepare for a move to a new, modern facility this summer.
And finally, PETA is urging prosecutors to bring animal cruelty charges against Eight Belles’ trainer, Larry Jones. In the photo at left, Eight Belles is examined after breaking both front ankles at the Kentucky Derby.
--Alice Short
Lobster photo: Karen Tapia/Los Angeles Times
Eight Belles photo: Charlie Riedel/Associated Press
