Help Stop McDonald's Cruelty Now!

Started by A M

Almost everyone has heard of McDonald's, and most people have eaten at the chain at least once, but many people don't know about the horrific cruelty that goes into every portion of chicken served under the Golden Arches.

In the slaughterhouses of McDonald's U.S. 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 the U.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.

Want to learn more..... go to McCruelty.com WARNING Video and pictures are VERY hard to watch!!!!

Write to McDonald's now, and demand that it phase in the exclusive use of chickens killed by CAK by requiring that its suppliers switch to this method.

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This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible.

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Ani L. Schwartz Arroyo Seco, NM @ 03:21PM PT Sep 28

LOL ... I have sent this same email about 4 times now ...

The solution is BOYCOTT ... the only thing they actually understand: PROFITS ... or rather, LOSS of profits.

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling...their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing"
~ Arundhati Roy ~
rosemary rannes Salem, NH @ 08:16PM PT May 26
Pledge fulfilled May 26, 2009!

Andrea thank you for initiating this Pledge. Certainly getting the information out is absolutely critical in terms of forcing McDonalds , and other for that matter, from cruelty practices towards animals.
Millions of people who go through the 'golden arches' need to know the intolerable criminal cruelty that animals are subjected to! I will stay vigilant in my support to stop this from happening.
Nancy Billings @ 07:54PM PT May 26

It is because of this kind of TORTURE to animals that I became vegatarian ~ I knew KFC did this but not Mc donalds ` I now will NO LONGER so much as buy a salad from there either UNTIL the animal cruelty STOPS ! Many of my friends & family are now vegan or vegatarian because of this torture and do not buy from any fast food places except salads or drinks but when I show them this they like me will stop doing even this ~ Its time to END the TORTURE of Gods helpless , innocent animals !!!!!!!!!
Melissa Alvarado @ 07:23PM PT May 26

I didn't know that Mcdonald's was doing cruel things to chickens in order to make their chicken menus at the fast food place. It is inhumane in what they are doing to the chickens.
Ashley Griffin @ 07:08AM PT Apr 02

I feel that the cruelty dealt to animals needs to stop. And how right it is that the people of today to stop this in-just treatment.
A M @ 04:45PM PT Feb 16

Initiated this Pledge!