People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Food & Drink Weekly, Jan 15, 2001

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced plans to promote a boycott of Burger King stores worldwide. The group says that unlike McDonald's, Burger King has refused to modify the way it treats animals. PETA wants Burger King to require suppliers to enlarge chicken cages and to stop removing the beaks of laying hens.

It also wants suppliers to stop withholding food from hens as a way of forcing them to lay more eggs. And it wants the slaughterhouses to stun animals unconscious before their throats are cut.

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