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Post by Mel Mel on Dec 3, 2006 2:58:30 GMT
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it will use its position as a Burger King Holdings stockholder at Wednesday's shareholder's meeting to show its position on the fast-food company's poultry practices.
The meeting, Burger King's first since becoming a public company, is to be at 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive, in Miami.
The Miami-based company operates more than 11,100 restaurants worldwide, though nine of out 10 of those locations are owned and operated by independent franchisees.
PETA said it will address Burger King (NYSE: BKC) shareholders, board members and executives on the company's need to adopt controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK), which PETA said is the least-cruel form of poultry slaughter available.
Currently, the activist group said, chickens raised and killed for Burger King are put on conveyors and hung upside-down by their legs in metal shackles that cause broken bones, then their heads are run through an electrified bath that gives painful shocks without rendering the chickens insensible to pain.
"Most are still conscious when their throats are slit or when they are scalded to death in defeathering tanks," PETA said.
With CAK, the group said, the oxygen chickens breathe is slowly replaced with inert, nonpoisonous gasses such as argon and nitrogen, putting the birds "to sleep" quickly and painlessly. ...continued... www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/11/27/daily24.html?jst=b_ln_hl
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