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Urgent update: Failure to Prosecute Monstrous Cruelty at KFC Supplier Dear Friend: We need your help to make sure that animal abusers are prosecuted. As you
may recall, in July, PETA revealed the results of an investigation into a
KFC supplier in Moorefield, W.Va., where workers were caught on video
kicking and stomping on chickens and violently slamming them against floors
and walls. Workers also ripped off the animals' beaks, twisted off their
heads, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, and spray painted their
faces�all while the chickens were still alive. Dan Rather echoed the views of all compassionate people when he said on
CBS Evening News, "There's no mistaking what [the video] depicts: cruelty to
animals, chickens horribly mistreated before they're slaughtered for a
fast-food chain." For more information about the investigation, including links to the
video and all the case materials, please visit PETA.org. On January 11, Ginny Conley, head of the West Virginia Prosecuting
Attorneys Institute, reportedly decided that because these were "chickens in
a slaughterhouse," criminal charges would not be filed. She was also quoted as saying that this "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. If dogs or cats had suffered this abuse, felony charges would have been
filed long ago. Please remind officials that chickens are just as capable of
experiencing pain and suffering as cats and dogs and that these acts are not
exempt from the state cruelty-to-animals statute. What You Can Do � Please write respectful letters to the prosecutor who decided not to
file charges in this case and ask that she reconsider and file felony
cruelty-to-animals charges against all those responsible for the torture of
chickens at Pilgrim's Pride in Moorefield, W.Va: Ginny Conley, Acting Executive Director � Please also 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 Joe Manchin Please forward this to as many sympathetic people as you can. For the
sake of all chickens in slaughterhouses, we need all the calls, letters, and
faxes that we can muster. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact
us at [email protected]
. Thanks again for everything that you do for animals. Kind regards, Cem Akin, Senior Research Associate Fair Use Notice:
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