woem said:
I don't see why this action would result in even more PETA hate. They have a good point:
In the slaughterhouses of McDonald's U.S. and Canadian chicken suppliers, birds are dumped out of their transport crates and hung upside-down in metal shackles, which often results in broken bones, extreme bruising, and hemorrhaging. Workers have the opportunity to abuse live birds, and birds have their throats cut while they are still conscious. Many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.
McDonald's has the ability to end these abuses.
There is a less cruel method of chicken slaughter available to McDonald's suppliers called controlled-atmosphere killing, or CAK, and it would cost the corporation nothing to demand that its suppliers use it. CAK would eliminate the worst abuses currently suffered by chickens killed for McDonald's. In fact, a 2005 study about CAK produced by McDonald's concluded that it is far better for animals than the current method of slaughter.
So they want a quick and clean way to kill animals instead of having them suffer so long before being killed. Is that really such a bad cause? They're not asking McDonalds to close down all their stores and they're not asking people to stop visiting McDonalds. So I really have a hard time understanding the "DAMN YOU PETA!" and "PETA can go fuck itself" reactions.
The problem is, instead of launching an informational and educational program preaching for meat industry reform, PETA launches these campaigns that get laughs from meat eaters instead of causing people to think about what their eating. This kind of looniness gets ignored, not brought to the surface.
I will always oppose any group who opposes medical advancement in favor of saving the rats bred for medical experiments. To quote the all mighty Penn Gillete:
"I would personally strangle to death every single chimpanzee in the world, with my bare hands, to save
one street junkie with AIDs."