Pamela Anderson blasts KFC over chicken "abuses"

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2006

JAKARTA (AFP) — Former Playboy model Pamela Anderson has chided American fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Indonesia for its cruel treatment of chickens, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said.

Anderson has sent a letter to Dick Gelael, president of KFCs Indonesia operations, to demand the chain eliminate "worst abuses of chickens," the radical animal protection group said in a statement.

"Investigations by my friends at PETA have found that chickens who are raised for KFC are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that many become crippled under their own weight," Anderson said in the letter.

Alleged abuses include cutting off the sensitive beaks of baby birds with a hot blade without using any pain-killers and breaking...