Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:23 -0400
From: Karen E Tiede
Subject: Factory farming
“All I am asking is if you must eat meat don’t support these corporations ie:, McDonalds, KFC that do nothing to practice humane alternatives to factory farming.”
According to Temple Grandin, it is McDonalds that has done the very most to make sure cows are slaughtered under humane conditions. McDonalds has worked with her to develop a checklist for slaughterhouses that ensure fear-free butchering, as much as possible; no beef is sold through McDonalds that is not processed through an approved slaughterhouse.
I believe McDonalds is the single largest purchaser of beef in the US, if not the world.
Temple is now working on similar standards for chicken processing. If KFC insisted on similar standards for the chicken they sell, it would happen, although the chicken market may be more fragmented than beef.
Agreed, slaughtering factory farming, and McDonalds didn’t change their ways out of the goodness of their hearts.
Temple spoke at NCSU last year. There was some representation from Chatham in attendance. You can follow her schedule at www.templegrandin.com
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