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...than 13,500 calls about cruelty to animals, and in its local area, it built and delivered 567 free doghouses for dogs chained outdoors without shelter and provided low or no-cost spay/neuter services for 6,046 cats and dogs. PETA also launched international campaigns against animal abuse at KFC, Iams and PETCO, worked with the state of Virginia and many municipalities to develop humane wildlife-management strategies and lobbied Congress to enforce the federal Humane Slaughter Act and to honor its commitment to encourage alternatives to animal experiments. These substantive actions illustrate PETA’s dedication to furthering...
...require shutting it down. PETA’s hard-fought campaigns forced fast-food chains McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s and grocery giants Safeway, Kroger and Albertsons to demand significant animal-welfare improvements from their suppliers, and PETA will continue its campaign against KFC until the chain adopts reforms...
...injustice on the continent, and hardly a week goes by without a high-profile visit or statement of outrage. Over the weekend, one of the original bad girls of rock, the Pretenders' lead singer and vegetarian Chrissie Hynde, was scheduled to make an appearance at a Bangkok outlet of KFC?accompanied by a protester in a giant chicken suit?to tell Thais that eating drumsticks is bad for both man and bird. Hynde, in town for a concert, is but the latest in a trail of glamorous activists...
While the city councils of Boston and Cambridge voted last spring to impose smoking bans at local bars and restaurants, the CCSR cast its vote in favor of a similar smoking ban at the restaurant chains of Yum! Brands, which include KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell...
...KFC will also have to fend off a stampede of competitors. McDonald's is planning to open an additional 100 restaurants a year on the mainland, and U.S.-based Church's Chicken will roll out stores in two major cities in 2004. Even chains that previously flopped in China, including Popeyes, are enticed again. There are also the inevitable domestic copycats to contend with. An 80-outlet, Shanghai-based chain called YongHe King uses KFC's familiar red-and-white color scheme and even has a Colonel Sanders look-alike in its logo...