PETA and Outback talk chicken

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Apr 26th 2006 @ 8:06PM

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wants Outback Steakhouse, Inc. to look into a method of chicken slaughter that is allegedly more humane, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Called controlled-atmosphere killing, the method basically gasses the birds, thus putting them "to sleep." PETA raised the suggestion at the annual Outback shareholders meeting this week in Tampa. How did PETA get their item on the table? They own 80 shares of Outback stock, enough to have an issue voted on at the yearly meeting. According to the TBBJ, PETA has put similar items up for a vote to Kroger, KFC and Hormel. Every time, the proposals for investigation of controlled-atmosphere killing have received more than three percent of the vote. While that isn't much, it's apparently enough to allow the issue to be submitted again next year.

[Via Restaurant News Resource]

Filed Under: Farming, Business, Magazines, Newspapers, Ingredients, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: america, atmosphere, chicken, controlled, killing, meeting, outback, peta, poultry, shareholder, slaughter, stock, tampa bay business journal

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4-26-2006 @10:51PM Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said... So...they're basically hypocrites? They're earning money from companies which earn their profit by selling meat.

Of course they'd never cop to it-they'd claim it was "necessary" to try to STOP people eating meat, but the fact remains they are HYPOCRITES.

HA! I love it!
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4-27-2006 @5:32AM Leroy said... The idea that gassing chickens is more humane than lopping off their heads is idiotic. It is to appease their own anthropomorphism. I assure you, if you take a hatchet to a chicken's neck, it dies instantaneously. Gassing a chicken sounds really perverse. I think PETA members are like that weird chic in college who insists she is a vegetarian, but you catch her in the bathroom sticking her fingers down her throat and a week later you hear that she set fire to her boyfriend's clothes in a fit of rage.
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4-27-2006 @5:16PM Laura said... While I do not endorse PETA even slightly, they do have a very bold point about the correct treatment of chickens. If the person above me was educated, he or she would know that they do NOT simply cut off a chicken's neck to kill it. That would be far more humane. I suggest you look into what the meat industry and factory farms actually do to their animals and the living conditions under which the animals have to survive. And I have no idea how you link being a vegetarian to burning someone's clothing and throwing up - most veggies are very normal, health-conscious people.

Gassing chickens might be a better alternative, but I believe PETA is going about it all wrong. Buying stock in a company that sells meat? As someone said above, that does mean they are receiving a profit. Perhaps they should look into a better, non-conflicting method of promoting their ideas.
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