Crying Fowl: ; Chickens Must Be Treated Humanely

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A West Virginia county prosecutor decided not to press charges against any of the slaughterhouse employees caught on videotape grotesquely abusing chickens at the Pilgrim's Pride plant in Moorefield, which supplies chickens to fast-food giant KFC, because, she told the Associated Press, "these were chickens in a slaughterhouse."

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Crying Fowl: ; Chickens Must Be Treated Humanely

Remarkably, chickens, turkeys and other birds are not included in the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, the only federal law tha...

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