Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC

A message from Steve Barney

MLK Day Press Demo at Oshkosh KFC
Date: Monday January 16, 2006
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: KFC Restaurant, 1805 Jackson St. (corner of Jackson and Murdock),
Oshkosh, WI

Members of the Ethical Community of Oshkosh:

Please make an extra effort to join me for a special PRESS DEMO this MLK Day, at the KFC restaurant in Oshkosh, to make a strong statement to the press on the application of the ethical principle on which human equality rests, or The Golden Rule, to farmed animals - including chickens.

Recommended Reading:

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) Does Chickens Wrong


Petition for Poultry


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Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 20 2006 @ 02:57 PM MST
Farmed animals, particularly chickens, have no real legal protection. For an analysis of state and federal law on farmed animal welfare, see the link to "Foxes In The Hen House" on this page:

Animal Welfare Advocacy
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Martin Luther King Day press demo at Oshkosh KFC
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 21 2006 @ 01:49 PM MST
Please allow me to fill you in on some of the facts of the matter. Things have actually been going in the opposite direction ("Un-American about Animals" , "A Buoyant Market for Ethics" ). The reason the animal welfare orgs in the US are focusing so much on corporate responsibility is that, historically, the political scene has been completely intransigent for the last 3 decades, in regard to the welfare of farmed animals. The last farmed animal welfare bill to hit the floor of Congress was the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1978 (which the USDA susequently interpreted as excluding chickens and birds in general - 95% of the animals slaughtered for food in the US). The major achievements on that front, in the US, have been in persuading some of the largest corporate consumers of animals, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Safeway Grocery, to voluntarily adopt animal welfare requirements. These achievements trace back to the verdict of the McLibel Trial (1997), a libel trial about a leaflet which criticised McD's for various things, including cruelty to animals. McDonald's was found to be "culpably responsible" for numerous "cruel practices" of the animal ag (slavery) industry .

The exceptions are states that have a citizen's initiative process (that does not include Wisconsin), which has allowed citizens to overcome the intransigence of the politicians by petitioning to put a referendum question on the ballot; that is, direct democracy. The first major breakthrough by this approach came in 2002 in the State of Florida, where a majority of the citizen voters directly amended that state's constitution to ban the sow crate for pigs - a body sized pen not unlike the veal crate which many of us are probably more familiar with (Wisconsin is the leading veal producer in the US). Here is a descriptive article on that amendment and the sow crate, by a former
speechwriter for President GW Bush:

"Don't tolerate the cruelty on hog farms"
By MATTHEW SCULLY
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