we are a group that is against animal cruelty. you dont have to be a vegetarian to join this group you just have to be against the mistreatment of animals











1. WHILE THIS GROUP IS NOT DIRECTLY AFFILIATED WITH PETA, IT DOES SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR CAUSE. ANTI-PETA RHETORIC WILL NOT BE TOLERATED IN THIS GROUP. THE SAME APPLIES TO COMMENTS REGARDING ANY OF THE OTHER MAJOR ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS. MEMBERS POSTING ANTI-A.R. CONTENT WILL HAVE THEIR POSTS DELETED AND THEY WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THE GROUP WITHOUT WARNING. QUESTIONS, CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS, AND EVEN LIVELY DEBATE ARE ENCOURAGED, BUT PUT-DOWNS, FLAMING, AND DENYING THE BASIC TENETS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS ARE UNNACCEPTABLE. PLEASE MESSAGE ME IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE ABUSING THE GROUP IN ANY WAY.











On July 20, 2004, PETA released the results of an undercover investigation into a KFC chicken slaughterhouse in Moorefield, W.Va., where workers were caught on video stomping birds, kicking them, and slamming them against floors and walls. Workers ripped the animals' beaks off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed their bodies so hard that the birds expelled feces.

The investigation was conducted at this location because it was the site of a KFC "Supplier of the Year" Award ceremony, and PETA wanted to see the "best" that a KFC supplier had to offer. This slaughterhouse is run by Pilgrim's Pride, the second-largest chicken company in the U.S., after Tyson Foods.

Animal-welfare experts are in agreement that the cruelty at this KFC supplier is reprehensible. Colorado State University professor of animal science, biomedical sciences, and philosophy, university distinguished professor, and university bioethicist Dr. Bernard Rollin writes, "I can unequivocally state that the behavior I saw exemplified in [this] videotape was totally unacceptable. The tape showed evidence of a work force that apparently failed to recognize that chickens are living sentient beings capable of feeling pain and distress." Dr. Temple Grandin, perhaps the industry's leading farmed-animal welfare expert, writes, "The behavior of the plant employees was atrocious," and asserts that even though she has toured poultry facilities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, France, the Netherlands, and the U.K., the video showed "the WORST employee behavior I have ever seen in a poultry plant." University of Guelph professor of applied ethology and university chair in animal welfare Dr. Ian Duncan writes, "This tape depicts scenes of the worst cruelty I have ever witnessed against chickens. and it is extremely hard to accept that this is occurring in the United States of America." University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine graduate and avian veterinarian Dr. Laurie Siperstein-Cook writes, "In NO case can the behavior of the workers be considered a necessary or acceptable way of killing or stunning chickens."