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Cornel West Speaks Out for ChickenRenowned author, activist, and social thinker Dr. Cornel West, whose many influential works include the groundbreaking 1993 book Race Matters, has sent a letter to KFC parent company Yum! Brands CEO David Novak, asking that KFC adopt the basic animal-welfare improvements recommended by PETA and eliminate such practices as scalding chickens to death in defeathering tanks and breeding and drugging birds so that their leg bones break under their own weight.Dr. West writes in his letter, “As a person who is concerned about all injustices, I am asking you to direct KFC’s suppliers to stop breeding and drugging animals so that they collapse under their own weight or die from heart failure and to phase in humane gas killing, a method of slaughter that protects birds from broken bones and wings, electric shocks, and even drowning in scalding-hot tanks of water.” Now teaching at Princeton University, Dr. West is no stranger to social struggle. He left the faculty of Harvard University in protest after Harvard President Larry Summers publicly criticized his writing about social and racial issues, he was involved with the Million-Man March in Washington, and he is an active voice in hip-hop political-action summits and national conferences to end street violence. Click here to learn what you can do to help KFC’s chickens, and click here to learn how you can eliminate cruelty to animals from your diet by going vegan. Click here to support PETA's work in behalf of factory-farmed animals who are suffering for KFC and other fast-food restaurants. |
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