By Joshua Errett

When it comes to animal rights, count on Torontoist to deliver all your vegan and vegetarian news. This week, over fifty Toronto-area KFC managers received a copy of PETA activist Pamela Anderson’s video (no, not that video, LOL). Anderson sent a tape depicting graphic torture of KFC-owned chickens before they end up in batter, in a radical effort to at the very least change the company’s handling of their stock. KFC currently places still-living chickens in scalding hot defeathering tanks. If the chickens survive the defeathering, they are often grabbed by the legs and smacked against a hard surface at least until they stop screeching in pain.
Anderson, an known animal rights activist, included a letter persuading KFC middle-men to take issue with CEO John Bitove (parent company Priszm) to address these abuses. Watch videos of KFC brutality here, but not until after lunch.