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...Feeding animals for meat production requires growing ten times as many crops as producing directly for a plant-based diet. The land needed for these crops contributes to deforestation—a major cause of global warming. In 2006, Greenpeace unveiled a “KFC: Amazon Criminal” banner across the Brazilian rainforest to highlight the effect KFC’s huge demand for chicken feed has in deforesting the Amazon Basin...
...chain restaurants with more than 20 locations to post calorie counts on menus by 2011. New York City has had a similar law in effect since the end of spring. Many Starbucks locations nationwide have already begun labeling their menus, and Yum! Brands—the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut—has announced it will put calorie counts in the overhead menus at all of its restaurants. Harvard may be able to shelter its students from much of the outside world, but since calorie counts will be a part of our lives whether we like...
...This is the quintessential Hong Kong breakfast. Even McDonald's and KFC serve noodle soups, usually with an inexplicable hunk of meat dropped in the mix. Instead of eggs and toast, you'd be more likely to have ramen with a hot dog thrown in. I leave happy and satiated, although unnerved by the waitress. Maybe she's just cranky, or maybe it's like France...
What They're Eating in Afghanistan Residents of the Afghan capital can't get enough KFC--Kabul Fried Chicken, that is. The city hosts four competing knockoffs of the global fast-food chain, complete with their own secret recipes, as well as logos copied from the Internet. "I consider myself the Afghan Colonel Sanders," says one entrepreneur, Mirwais Abuldrahizmi. No word yet on whether Yum! Brands, KFC's corporate parent, based in Louisville, Ky., plans to file a lawsuit to the contrary...
...Jamshed and Mirwais have something of a rivalry between their respective Kabul Fried Chicken outlets. They refer to each other euphemistically as "friends more than partners," though in reality they're neither. Each claims to be Kabul's original KFC imitator, and accuses the other of stealing the recipe from him. Imitation, of course, is endemic to Afghanistan's business environment. "We're an underdeveloped country," Mirwais says. "So we can't come up with our own ideas...