Urgent update: Failure to Prosecute Monstrous Cruelty at KFC Supplier

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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

West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute

90 MacCorkle Ave. S.W., Ste. 202

South Charleston, WV 25303

304-558-3348

304-558-3360 (fax)

 

• 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 Bob Wise

Governor-Elect Joe Manchin

 

Office of the Governor

State Capitol Complex

1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.

Charleston, WV 25305

304-558-2000 (outside of West Virginia)

1-888-438-2731 (within West Virginia)

304-558-2722 (fax)

Governor

 

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 Info. Thanks again for everything

that you do for animals.

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Cem Akin, Senior Research Associate

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

 

 

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